California's housing crisis is being driven by political hesitation, outdated zoning choices, and a regulatory and fiscal framework that often undermines the goals of elected leaders, resulting in low housing production and rising costs.

A $1 million program funded by the Banc of California is now available to help small business owners secure competitive loans to cover upfront costs of fulfilling city contracts, the Mayor’s Office announced today. Mayor Karen Bass created the Contract ...

Not a single California city cracked the top 30 on a list of the most livable metro areas in the US — despite the state’s continued reputation for quality of life appeal, according to a recent study.

The City of Los Angeles is looking to recruit private developers to reimagine some pieces of government-owned land. In order to recruit developers to build on the sites, the Los Angeles Housing Department will act through its land development unit to ...

The Los Angeles City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee voted to recommend a major overhaul of the city’s rent-control system, backing a formula that would cap annual allowable rent hikes for roughly 650,000 units at 3%, a lower percentage ...

Hell on earth is a Los Angeles courtroom. A report released this week by the American Tort Reform Foundation found that LA is the worst region in the country for “judicial hellholes,” and residents are picking up the tab for excessive litigation based ...

Five outlets have launched in five months in a city whose paper of record, the Los Angeles Times, has downsized considerably