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When you see positive headlines about rebuilding getting underway in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, remember this: Local officials are moving ahead despite the Trump administration refusing to test soil on affected properties for toxins. latimes.com/environment/st… via Tony Briscoe

Deleted the below tweet on the governor and a federal court hearing on homelessness. Our story was incorrect. The judge made a request for the governor to appear at a future hearing not the one last week.

Five years after occupying empty, state-owned homes, L.A. protesters are preparing to battle their evictions. latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Former L.A. Councilmember Kevin de León faces ethics fine for voting on issues in which he had a financial stake latimes.com/california/sto…

Meet the oversight bodies for Los Angeles' new $1.5 billion annually in homelessness dollars: ULACOC, LTRHA, ECRHA and LACAHSA latimes.com/california/sto…

Ex-San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has died. As Liam Dillon put it in Voice of SD, he "stabs you in the front. And he stabs you in the back. He’s abrasive, aggressive, impolitic, caustic, truculent, brash and, according to one memorable formulation, 'the Grand Canyon of assholes.'"

L.A. fire survivors are struggling to find affordable housing. I talked to one living in her car, another bouncing between six hotels and Airbnbs with her younger three children. Yet FEMA and state emergency officials say the rental market is fine latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Statement from the leadership of the L.A. Times Guild 🦅, the union for Los Angeles Times journalists, on today's layoffs: latguild.com/news/2025/5/2/…

SCOOP: Sources tell us several L.A. federal prosecutors resigned after U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli offered a misdemeanor plea deal to an L.A. County Sheriff's deputy who'd already been convicted of a felony in excessive force case. Latest w/ Brittny Mejia & Keri Blakinger latimes.com/california/sto…

Armen Tamzarian, the Los Angeles County judge in the infamous Simpsons Principal Skinner episode, got a promotion today.

Very cute when a city issues a Certificate of Occupancy that's actually a Certificate

This is a very good way of laying out a dynamic that's certainly true in California as well.

Failure of Skid Row landlord 'canary in the coal mine' for other homeless housing in Los Angeles, report says latimes.com/homeless-housi…

“I think the fact it’s been four months and they haven’t just come out and said it means there’s something behind the surface — sensitive information associated with liability." latimes.com/california/sto…

Rep. Judy Chu and advocates for Eaton Fire survivors pushed federal and state officials today for more housing assistance. The effort follows a Times story this month noting that FEMA hasn't implemented a commonly used program to directly lease apartments latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Rent is climbing faster in neighborhoods near January's wildfires than elsewhere in Los Angeles — roughly 3 percentage point difference — Los Angeles Times analysis found latimes.com/california/sto…