Is anyone really surprised that the Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson’s son was receiving discounted rent for years while his father was helping the building owners win approval for a controversial high rise? The Los Angeles Times found that the Democrat councilman’s son, Herb Wesson III, went more than five years without a […]

According to POLITICO, California’s state insurance commissioner has maintained his primary residence in Los Angeles, while taxpayers have been stuck with thousands of dollars in bills to cover the cost of renting an apartment in Sacramento. Commissioner Ricardo Lara is already under scrutiny for his campaign fundraising and questionable association with the insurance industry. According […]

The economy in the Bay Area is booming, yet for people under the age of 40 and for renters, there is a high chance that they don’t travel or go out to eat much, and they probably have to cut back on groceries. Where is most of their money going to? According to a five-county […]

Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to establish rent controls at mobile home parks in unincorporated areas. This was done in a move to try and control the increasing rental costs at some mobile home parks in parts of the Los Angeles County. The approved motion was written by […]

Carolyn Cherry’s commute seems extreme, but it’s a sacrifice she continues to make so that her children have a home to live in. Carolyn, who is 60 years old and near retirement, commutes about six hours a day from her home in Hemet, to her job in Downtown Los Angeles as a clerical worker, and […]

An unfortunate thing is happening in the Bay Area, RVs are starting to become the home of last resort for some people. Bay Area cities have seen an increase in the number of RVs out in the streets and this has caused them to seek a solution to this problem. Many Bay Area cities are […]

In October, the annual USC Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast was released and its findings aren’t too good for Sothern California residents. Apparently, rents will keep rising over the next two years because the supply of apartments is tight and not enough new housing is being built. In Los Angeles County, the average monthly rents […]

The economic disparity is surreal in Silicon Valley, as young millionaires dine on expensive meals and purchase expensive products without hesitation, thousands of families in the same area can’t afford a home. Many of the homeless in Silicon Valley work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the […]

According to a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) study released in August, Los Angeles and New York City top the list of U.S. cities with the most amounts of poor people laboring under heavy rent burdens, living in substandard housing, or both. Surprisingly, more than half of Los Angeles’ 1 million very […]

According to a study conducted by the real estate firm Zillow, a five percent rent hike in Los Angeles County would push 2,000 more residents into homelessness. The study of the effect of rising housing costs was conducted using census figures and homeless counts for the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Research has shown that […]