EXCLUSIVE: After Spending $550 Million, Over 70 Percent of Los Angeles County’s Project Homekey Homeless Rooms Vacant – Westside Current
Jamie Paige, Chris LeGras – Part 3 of an ongoing Westside Current investigation into the challenges and failures of Project Homekey ->->->
Chinatown tenant wins court battle over eviction from “affordable” unit – LA Public Press
Phoenix Tso – The win comes following more than six years of organizing. The tenants from a low-income apartment complex in Chinatown face eviction, and are currently weighing proposed settlement agreements made by their landlord to end almost three-dozen active eviction lawsuits in Los Angeles court. ->->->
- What Chinatown tenants can teach us about saving “affordable housing” – LA Public Press
- How LA’s illegal short-term rentals hide in plain sight on booking sites – LA Public Press
- LA Public Press is bringing the fire!
What is Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LITHC)?
- It’s how “affordable housing” is funded. Instead of taking tax money to build public housing, for the people, it’s a tax-dodging scheme that helps profitable corporations buy up land and build apartments, in exchange for lower-rent units, that won’t stay lower-rent forever.
