A young teacher named Stephen Anaya and his family moved to a shingle-style bungalow in the early 20th century on Fraser Avenue's historic beach side street in Santa Monica in 1974. They bought it five years later. "Living on the street has been our dream," he says. "Buying the worst house on the street and fixing it was our philosophy. That's the only way we [...]

The block-sized plan set to be the next Hollywood home for Netflix (well, one of them) is about to be completed. The 3.5-acre development, named the Academy on Vine, will include multiple buildings, including a 20-story tower with 193 residential units, plus office and retail space, all located on Sunset Boulevard just south of the ArcLight and Cinerama Dome. Past developer projections from Kilroy Realty [...]

Developers and town officials get a leg up in the race to construct shelters and flats for the increasing homeless population of LA. There will now be a fresh state law exempting many of these projects from environmental review. Assembly Bill 1197 was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday and instantly came into force. "This legislation will help us make blueprints faster for the [...]

City authorities and property owners in Los Angeles are making strides in retrofitting the kinds of apartment houses that were particularly susceptible in the earthquake in Northridge in 1994. This week, tens of thousands of houses were toppled and damaged by the devastating — and deadly— temblor that hit 25 years earlier. As of this month, 1,500 Soft Story houses have been retrofitted and, according [...]

According to a fresh study by real estate company Marcus & Millichap, over 10,000 new flats have been built in the last year in Los Angeles County. This amount, which contains units built between July 2016 and June 2017, reflects a substantial rise of 61 percent over the previous year and is the largest amount of flats built over the five-year period studied in the [...]

The Wilshire Grand Center— which is opening up to the public today— closely eclipses the U.S. Bank Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles. But what could stand out more than the height of Angelenos is the ornamental top of the tower. It's the first high-rise downtown to be built since Los Angeles City Hall in 1928 that won't have a flat roof. Instead, [...]

Stadium owner Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park announced Monday that the swooping shell that will sustain the roof over Inglewood's NFL stadium is full. The Los Angeles Rams and Chargers ' future home struck another milestone: more than two-thirds of the stadium is now over. The freshly completed shell at the top of the stadium will support the two other parts [...]

Thirteen months after the voters signed a vote on Measure HHH authorizing $1.2 billion in bond money to pay for homeless housing, the first project financed by the initiative was launched in East Hollywood on Wednesday. Construction marks "a new chapter in our struggle to get Angelenos homeless out of the streets and into homes," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. According to the Los [...]

There’s a shift happening in earthquake science, and it’s not just in the tectonic plates. Results of a new five-year study reveal that the way experts model potential earthquakes is changing for good. Experts behind the CyberShake project say they have identified a far more accurate and localized method of simulating earthquakes’ effects at specific locations. Based on the new models, LA is expected to see 10 to [...]