Robert Greene

The Los Angeles City Council is about to consider an affordable-housing law requiring developers to reserve a portion of their new units for below-market-rate housing. An inclusionary zoning proposal is coming soon. Any day now, in fact. No, really. Honest. Of course, that’s what affordable-housing advocates have been saying for......

One of the first things Antonio Villaraigosa did after raising and spending nearly $6 million in campaign cash and getting elected mayor of Los Angeles was open up a fund for additional donations, these for the six-week transition between election day and July 1, when he takes office. The new......

The Los Angeles City Council kicked off an abbreviated Election Day meeting by agreeing, quickly and quietly, to open talks with any group with a plan to operate a complex of four coveted stages wedged between Skid Row and the emerging downtown of loft dwellers and art galleries. Although worded......

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov“We’re going to win by two points,” a labor supporter of Mayor Jim Hahn said Monday after a long day of phone banking. “Either that, or lose by 20.” It wasn’t 20, but it came pretty close, and it puzzled more than a few of the union......

Even though only one City Council seat was up for grabs in Tuesday’s election, the change in the Mayor’s Office will also mean changes on the council, some of them immediate, others six weeks or more down the road. The most obvious will be the departure of seniormost member Cindy......

Leaders of some of the L.A.’s most influential labor unions have expressed alarm at recent fundraising by the region’s biggest building owners for Antonio Villaraigosa and charge that the mayoral candidate has agreed to withdraw city support for union efforts to organize security guards in Los Angeles’ commercial office towers......

With less than two weeks to go before the May 17 mayoral runoff, Mayor James Hahn’s fate is largely out of his hands as he relies on a field operation run independently by the consultant who nearly ousted him in the March primary, and as he banks on continuing bad......

Photo by Ted SoquiNo one moves to Los Angeles to get an apartment. Or at least not to end up in one. An apartment here is a way-station, a temporary fix until the college loans are paid off, or until the band is signed, or the screenplay is sold, or......

If $8,000 a month for the penthouse atop one of those downtown Italian fortresses isn’t your speed, and you’d rather not pay $1,800 for a one-bedroom in the same building, you can get an older but still acceptable apartment a couple miles west near newly spruced up MacArthur Park for......

Consider the state of the city, Los Angeles, 2005. It is, said Mayor Jim Hahn on Monday, “safer, stronger and improving every day.” He made his speech during the week that local governments release their proposed budgets and begin a two-month-long debate about what they can do, and what they......