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A view of the development that would make a new home for Taix on Sunset Boulevard. Renderings courtesy of Los Angeles City Planning If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo ...

When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

The number of state-owned homes in El Sereno occupied by protestors trying to draw attention to the region’s severe housing affordability crisis has grown to nearly a dozen. The protesters, who ...

More than half a century after publishing the collections that established her reputation as a gimlet-eyed cultural critic—Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album—Joan Didion continues ...

Are luxury apartments sitting empty in LA? It’s common for cities to have vacant units—but in LA, the market is relatively tight ...

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...

The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...

Now up for grabs in Altadena is one of the town’s most notable landmarks, the Zane Grey Estate. Sited behind iron gates on a 1.19-acre lot west of Lake Avenue, the Mediterranean Revival-style ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

What a decade it’s been for Downtown Los Angeles. In the last 10 years, the neighborhood has added thousands of apartments and condos, gained its new tallest skyscraper (if you count the spire ...

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...