Kristen Sneddon

When a stockpile of illegal fireworks was destroyed in a South LA neighborhood, it was meant to be a contained detonation.

Roughly 53% of LA County residents are fully vaccinated, but cases and hospitalizations are rising. As the Delta variant spreads, people ages 18-29 are being hit hardest.

Political fallout is mounting as LA grapples with how to house its many residents living on the streets.

Project Roomkey, a statewide effort to place medically vulnerable unhoused people in hotel rooms during the pandemic, is scheduled to close at the end of September.

The City of LA fenced off Echo Park Lake more than a week ago, forcing roughly 200 unhoused people living there to leave.

The City of LA is forming a new partnership with the state of California to eliminate all rental debt for low-income households financially impacted by the pandemic.

California's Wonder Valley is arid and sparsely populated, where property values have jumped close to 20% in the last year, according to an estimate by Zillow .

About 10,000 units of affordable housing in LA County are likely to flip to market-rate in the next five to 10 years.

With California’s housing shortage, some politicians want to tinker with zoning laws to build denser, multi-family housing in more areas.