CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 17, 2000 | PATRICK MCGREEVY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Lake View Terrace neighbors Thursday lost an appeal challenging a low-income housing project that Los Angeles City Councilman Alex Padilla had intervened earlier with city regulators to support. After Padilla stepped in, city engineers relaxed requirements for such items as sidewalks alongside the controversial building, which was proposed, in part, by a close political advisor to Padilla. The project is Lakeview Manor, which is being developed with a $2.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 1, 2000
Nine housing projects received part of a $9.4-million grant from the state's affordable housing program, a state housing officials said Tuesday. Three grants went to the multifamily apartment projects of Sonya Gardens, Laurel House and Heritage Park. The Courtyard Apartments, Cosmos Transitional Housing, New Harbor Vista and Harbor Community also received Families Moving to Work Grants. The Civic Center Barrio Housing Corp., another multifamily project, received funds as well.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 4, 2000 | CARLA HALL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
La Estrella. The star, in Spanish. Certainly, the name is appropriate for an apartment building that was reborn out of combustible forces--negligent landlords, lurking gang members, encroaching vermin--and now stands like a beacon, calling back displaced residents. Once an infamous example of the city's worst slum housing, the apartment building at 1979 Estrella Ave.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 1, 2000
The Housing Authority announced Friday that 29 families facing eviction from Aliso Village, a public housing project in East Los Angeles, will be relocated to temporary housing and given help finding new homes if they can't find a place to live by the end of April. The announcement was welcomed by the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, which has been negotiating relocation for the families.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 10, 2000
Members of the Temple Beaudry neighborhood gathered Thursday for the grand opening of the Angelina Apartments, a $14-million housing complex of 82 units for low-income and very low-income families. Financed by Bank of America, the Los Angeles Housing Department and other institutions, the project was designed to ameliorate the shortage of family rental units in central Los Angeles.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 26, 2000 | CARLA RIVERA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The federal agency charged with putting low-income people into decent, affordable housing is itself trying to evict dozens of poor and elderly Los Angeles residents from homes they have rented for years but which are now in foreclosure.