by jpitney | Oct 6, 2025 | California Politics, Housing, Regulation
Roger Vincent at LAT: Los Angeles apartment construction has dropped by close to a third in three years as developers struggle with unprofitable economics and regulatory uncertainty. Institutional investors are pulling money from L.A. real estate projects, preferring...
by jpitney | Oct 1, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Liam Dillon, Ben Poston, Doug Smith and Jessica Garrison at the Los Angeles Times: More homes have been lost to wildfire in the last eight years than in any other period in California history. The five most destructive from 2017 to 2020 burned down 22,500 houses. Just...
by jpitney | Sep 28, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Michelle Ma and John Gittelsohn at LA Daily News: Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just five years...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government
Terry Castleman, Rebecca Ellis and Grace Toohey at LAT: Poor communication, understaffing, a lack of adequate planning and chaotic conditions contributed to a failure to issue timely evacuation orders to parts of Altadena as the deadly Eaton fire raced through the...
by jpitney | Sep 25, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Suhauna Hussain at LAT: A local television station based in Salinas abruptly shut down its news operations on Tuesday after 56 years on the air. KION-TV, which serves Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz regions on California’s Central Coast, announced on its website that...
by jpitney | Sep 10, 2025 | California Politics, Poverty
The US Census Bureau explains the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a more accurate metric than the old measure: The SPM, first released in 2011 and produced in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), extends the official poverty measure by...
