The city of Los Angeles has made little headway in expanding the
supply of housing for low- and middle-income residents because old
affordable units have been destroyed almost as quickly as new ones
have been built, according to a new study.
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A man and his sister were killed and his 7-year-old son was
critically injured Sunday morning when the man turned their car in
front of a Blue Line train near downtown Los Angeles and the vehicle
was dragged half a block along the tracks, police said.
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A state audit of a chain of independent study charter schools, known
as Options for Youth and Opportunities for Learning, has found
widespread accounting problems and conflicts of interest and
recommends that the Department of Education try to recover up to $57
million in overpayments.
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A growing body of research shows Los Angeles to be a region of
extreme polarization, where rich and poor live in separate
neighborhoods, surrounded by others like themselves.
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The recent craze for converting apartment buildings to condominiums,
which is drawing political heat in Los Angeles and elsewhere, may be
slowed by market forces before City Hall has a chance to act.
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Public school enrollment is dropping fast in some of the most
notoriously crowded neighborhoods of Los Angeles as soaring rents and
property values displace low-income, mostly immigrant families.
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A Los Angeles-based labor contractor must pay nearly $300,000 in
fines and back wages for allegedly deceiving and underpaying 88 Thai
workers it sent to Hawaii to harvest onions and pineapples, the Labor
Department said Monday.
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Los Angeles restaurant worker Jose Mendez says he will risk his job.
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The king of King Express arrived at one of his 29 California outlets
in a white Lexus, the essence of business cool: bold red tie,
shoulder-length silver hair and glasses tinted a smoky gray.
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