Californians can get $3,000 grants to retrofit homes for earthquake safety
In an earthquake, a lack of grip between a house and its foundation can cause the home to be shoved off — as if the shaking has broken the building’s knees….
Fred Armisen asks $3.5 million for hip Los Feliz home
Actor Fred Armisen is asking $3.5 million for a stately brick abode in the hills of Los Feliz built in the 1920s….
L.A. hits $1-billion earthquake milestone: 8,000 buildings retrofitted
The milestone comes seven years after the City Council passed the nation’s most sweeping earthquake safety legislation, requiring more than 14,000 buildings be retrofitted….
Black developers refuse to work with De León on $1.6-billion Angels Landing project
Black real estate developers of the proposed $1.6-billion Angels Landing project refuse to continue working with City Councilman Kevin de León….
Vin Scully’s Hidden Hills mansion lists for $15 million
The longtime home of late Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is up for grabs in Hidden Hills, priced at $15 million….
Rising mortgage rates are sending home prices lower
After a decade of largely uninterrupted gains, Southern California home prices are now falling, the result of rising mortgage rates that have squashed demand….
The agony and ecstasy (and hidden beauty) of L.A. parking garages
Los Angeles is terrible at housing people. It’s better at warehousing cars. The concrete nautiluses where we temporarily abandon our Kias and Porsches and mopeds produce, reproduce and shelter dualities….
Fighter Tito Ortiz lists Huntington Beach house after break-in
Former UFC star Tito Ortiz is asking $4.8 million for his Huntington Beach house, which was broken into earlier this year….
Plans for a permanent campus for Latino-serving charter school opposed by preservationists
Valor Academy Elementary has plans to build its campus in North Hills, incorporating one of the area’s oldest homes, which sits on the property. …
‘Gimme Shelter’: How parking lots explain California’s housing crisis
A new California law eliminates minimum parking requirements for housing near mass transit. Why one parking guru says it’ll be a boon for home building….