Mortgage rates have jumped, despite the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half-point last month. For homebuyers, the ever-shifting rate environment can foster uncertainty: Is it better to wait for mortgage rates to fall, or start looking now?
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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.”
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As wildfires in the West get more intense, many companies are withdrawing from the homeowners' insurance market. The state hopes the proposed rules would keep them.
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Officials said they had identified 150 unhoused people who could benefit.
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Newsom administration tells Beverly Hills its efforts to block a high-rise violate state housing lawThe affluent city has stalled plans for a 165-unit building. State housing officials say the “Builder’s Remedy” project should go forward.
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Backers pulled a $20-billion affordable housing bond off Bay Area ballots Thursday amid fears that it wouldn’t pass.
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The city is upping enforcement of its anti-camping ordinances and will cite people for setting-up encampments or sleeping in public.
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The ordinance is aimed at protecting Boyle Heights residents from displacement and gentrification.
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles sees a need for affordable homes. They have the land — and now, a new housing nonprofit — to make it happen.
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A recent RAND study found that after city authorities cleared encampments last year, there was a temporary drop in homelessness in Venice, Skid Row, and Hollywood that lasted two to three months.
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As wildfire risk increases in California, insurers are raising their rates. Landlords in turn are passing them along to tenants.
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Newsom cannot directly order local governments to remove tents from public places, but he can pull back state money by the tens of millions if they don’t.
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