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Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco and author of The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco
PROFILE
Randy Shaw
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FROM Randy Shaw
Which Way, L.A.?
LA's Housing Shortage Pits Tenants against Their Landlords Los Angeles is the least affordable housing market in the United States, according to authorities at UCLA. City Council members are calling a state law part of the problem. The Ellis Act allows property owners to evict long-time tenants from rent-controlled units — even if they're elderly, poor, disabled or military veterans. San Francisco officials challenged the real estate lobby in Sacramento and worked some changes. Could LA do the same?
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Regulars at Borderline Bar & Grill reflect on the shooting This year there has been a mass shooting in America on average almost once per day. As you know, the most recent was the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks where 12 people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a local bar. It was called Borderline Bar & Grill. KCRW’s David Weinberg talked to some of the bar’s regulars about what made the place special.