Greater LA
Living in your car under LA’s reinforced restrictions
The City of LA wants to create more housing by encouraging Angelenos to build "accessory dwelling units." But at the same time, officials are making it tougher for people to live in their vehicles. Also, should LAUSD be rating its own schools?
By Steve Chiotakis • • 24m ListenThe City of LA wants to create more housing by encouraging Angelenos to build "accessory dwelling units." But at the same time, officials are making it tougher for people to live in their vehicles. Also, should LAUSD be rating its own schools?
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3 storiesMobile home dwellers on LA’s strict parking rules
Along a quiet section of Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood, near a row of empty storefronts, about a half dozen motorhomes sat parked on a recent morning.
Read the story9 minImagining LA full of backyard baby homes
The City of LA is encouraging the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the backyards of Angelenos' homes. Officials see these so-called ‘granny flats’ as a scalable way of building lots of new housing without disrupting neighborhoods.
Read the story8 minShould LAUSD grade its own schools?
If you’re a parent in LA, would it be helpful to you if you had a rating, like an Amazon or Yelp score, for a particular LA Unified school? That’s something that the nation’s 2nd largest school district is contemplating: a rating scale of 1 to 5.
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