Fires Add Disaster to the Los Angeles Housing Crisis Preventing price gouging on rents and predatory evictions are looming challenges for public officials. Capital & Main · Jan 16, 2025
A Judge Stopped Their Eviction, But The Law That Started It Looms Large In California The 1985 Ellis Act blocks cities from preserving rent-controlled housing. Critics say it needs to go. Capital & Main · Jun 27, 2024
Nearly 500 Tenants Left a Los Angeles Apartment Complex Before a Judge Ruled Their Eviction Illegal. Now What? Rent-controlled Barrington Plaza tenants, many of whom moved to more expensive apartments, are weighing a lawsuit. Capital & Main · Jun 25, 2024
A Disease Took Her Mobility. Now, at 70, She Could Lose Her Home. Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence. Capital & Main · Mar 13, 2024
Moving hazardous chemicals by train is far safer than trucks, says top regulator who pushed merger and wants more freight moved by rail Not even the toxic fireball over an Ohio derailment could shake Martin Oberman’s belief that railroads are a safer way to move hazardous chemicals, and most other freight, than long-haul trucks. Chicago Tribune · Mar 27, 2023
‘If our trucks stop, America stops’: Oakland port at standstill over labor law protest The Port of Oakland, California — one of the country’s largest and a key hub for global commerce — has been brought to a standstill by a group of truck drivers angered over a state labor law that could upend their business model. Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2022