Andrew Khouri

Housing construction in Los Angeles plunged during the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report, a drop-off that could ultimately worsen the city’s affordability crisis. Developers pulled permits for 1,325 new homes in the city of L.A. during the first three months of 2025, down nearly 57% from the same period a year

Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” that funds affordable housing has likely led to a drop off in overall apartment construction, potentially worsening the city’s housing situation, according to a new report released Friday. The study, from researchers at UCLA and Rand, focuses on Measure ULA — a voter-approved law that took effect in spring 2023. Though

Just off the Topanga Canyon exit of the 101 Freeway sits a prime example of modern, luxury apartment living. Built in 2020, the Clarendon Apartments in Woodland Hills feature poolside cabanas, a fire pit terrace and 24-hour community room with a kitchen and a billiard table. The apartments themselves are spacious — on average two-bedroom

The first vacant lot in Altadena went up for sale in late January. The listing promised “great opportunity to build” after the Eaton fire destroyed the home previously on the site.A few weeks later came half a dozen more listings. Now the floodgates appear open. “There is so many to choose from,” said Jeremy Hardy,

The city of Los Angeles is launching a new initiative to encourage the construction of starter homes on small lots, an effort to provide relatively lower-cost for-sale housing and show how Los Angeles can densify without turning into Manhattan.The initiative, called Small Lots, Big Impacts, kicked off Wednesday with a design competition for architects and

After fires ripped through Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January, concern grew about how far the effects would spread and whether the region’s housing affordability crisis would worsen.Not only were thousands of homes destroyed, but many businesses were as well, leaving some people without a job and nervous they couldn’t pay rent. Gardeners, nannies and

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday granted final approval to a sweeping rezoning plan that aims to boost housing development along commercial corridors and existing dense residential neighborhoods.In a 14-to-0 vote, council members approved the so-called Citywide Housing Incentive Program. The new ordinance will provide developers incentives to build both market rate and affordable

Los Angeles City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto has sued the apartment behemoth Blueground US Inc., alleging the provider of furnished rentals engaged in multiple instances of price gouging in the wake of the region’s fires. Under a state of emergency, landlords and their representatives are generally barred from raising rent more than 10% above what

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to prohibit landlords from evicting tenants for allowing people or pets displaced by last month’s fires to live with them. In a 14-0 vote, councilmembers granted preliminary approval to such an ordinance, which supporters say is needed because some residential leases ban unauthorized people or pets.The new rules,