David Wagner

New rules will have to be approved by L.A. City Council members by February as the city faces a mandate to plan for more than 450,000 new homes by 2029.

Judge David O. Carter called the plan UCLA brought back to him Wednesday night "inadequate." The fate of the Brentwood School and other VA campus leaseholders is still to come.

Measure ULA applies to real estate selling for more than $5 million. So far, mansions account for less than half of revenue.

Metropolitan State Hospital has vacant buildings across its sprawling campus. Here are the plans to reopen them.

State housing officials warned the city Monday that its policy violates state law. The five city council members voted unanimously Tuesday to extend it anyway, banning new permits for shelters, interim housing and supportive apartments for unhoused people.

Four years after the class action suit was filed and Just as trial was set to begin, the nonprofit settled. AHF is a major bankroller of ballot initiatives to overturn limits on rent-control in the state.

The independent economic analysis finds some rent increase rules favor landlords and recommends changing the formula for deciding annual increases for rent-controlled apartments. It was filed four months ago but not released publicly. LAist obtained a copy through a public records request.

Frustrated by a slow-moving audit, Judge David O. Carter told L.A. homelessness officials, “You’re not working on your time frame now. You’re working on mine.”

For the first time, voters in L.A. County will see nonpartisan impartial analysis of countywide measures. First up: Measures A and G, covering a half cent sales tax and the expansion of the Board of Supervisors.

The affluent city has stalled plans for a 165-unit building. State housing officials say the “Builder’s Remedy” project should go forward.