The Los Angeles City Planning Commission voted Thursday to steer new housing construction away from ... Because the city’s current zoning can’t handle all that growth, city planners have ...

In 2021, Los Angeles adopted one of California’s most ambitious housing plans. City leaders committed to passing pro-development policies and rezoning enough land to accommodate 455,000 new ...

Los Angeles needs more housing. Now, more than ever. The fires that roared through the city in January 2025 were nothing short of devastating, with over 16,000 structures destroyed and an ...

Donate now. L.A.'s planning commission, as expected, voted Thursday to recommend the City Council keep protections in place for single-family housing zones despite a state-mandate to plan for ...

The city’s traffic and housing crises date back a century, when Los Angeles first became dependent on the automobile and exclusionary zoning. Ever since, municipalities across the country—from ...

America’s second-largest city is facing its own natural disaster, and a set of choices for how to rebuild. There are few places in the U.S. with a tougher housing market than Los Angeles ...

Just as cities across the San Francisco Bay Area were required by state law to redraw their zoning maps to accommodate a massive increase in allowable housing development, the City of Los Angeles ...

In an effort to create more affordable housing in higher resource neighborhoods, the Los Angeles City Council called ... in wealthier neighborhoods. The zoning would allow more affordable housing ...

In affordable housing, this gap is usually bridged by a mixture of federal and state tax credits, city ... family zoning reinforces social disparities. Like many other US cities, Los Angeles ...

And if three recent Los Angeles County court rulings are any indication, developers appear likely to come out on top of the building-and-zoning ... the city didn’t have an approved housing ...