DnA’s story about zoning starts on the observation deck on the twenty-sixth floor of Los Angeles City Hall, the tallest building in Los Angeles from 1928 until building height rules changed in the ...

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission voted ... than 450,000 new homes over the next five years. Because the city’s current zoning can’t handle all that growth, city planners have been ...

The disastrous fires in the Los Angeles ... city outskirts toward the city center. Although it's possible to build a lot of houses on paper, "in practice, it's extremely difficult because the ...

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 ...

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 ...

And today, America’s second-largest city is facing its own natural disaster, and a set of choices for how to rebuild. In the coming months and years, the Los Angeles housing market, already ...