A developer bet he could clean up the St. George Hotel. But former tenants describe mold, bedbugs and neglect. City records show conditions had deteriorated.

Weeks later, Lineage’s own data — buried in online reports — shows some unsafe ammonia levels in Boyle Heights.

Two-thirds of L.A. County voucher holders live in “low-resource” areas, a Capital & Main analysis finds. Santa Monica is a rare exception.

McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim.

Labor lawyer Ana Avendaño says unions must do more to protect women.

Stricter enforcement could bring in millions as Olympics approach, housing advocates counter.

Trump and Republican lawmakers want steep funding cuts, while new eligibility rules from HUD would imperil housing for millions of people.

California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and other alternatives. Big landlords keep doing it anyway.

Apartment hunters with rental assistance were not welcome at many Jamison buildings, in apparent violation of California law, a Capital & Main investigation found.

Capital & Main investigated seven of the city’s largest rental property owners and found most skirted anti-discrimination laws. Here’s how each landlord fared.

With the Olympics approaching and housing in short supply after recent fires, the city is moving to crack down on illegal rentals.

The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.

Housing activists accuse rental giant of excessive payment hikes.

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In history-conscious Monterey, locals know that the California constitution was signed at Colton Hall or that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote poems and stories in a downtown adobe. But they don’t know about Monterey native Tiburcio Vasquez, who grew up…

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This is an updated version of an article that appeared Nov. 3 in Capital & Main. It was produced in partnership with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued an order Wednesday that allows the city to use residential…

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, some 50 public schools share their campuses with charter schools. It is often a contentious relationship. But now parents and teachers at Baldwin Hills and Trinity elementary schools in South Los Angeles,…