Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a news release the rise was expected and blamed a new policy and funding landscape for pushing "more people...
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Malibu and Pasadena ultimately agreed to allow state-decreed multiplex development in single-family neighborhoods after a pro-development legal nonprofit sued. The state, the city of Los Angeles and L.A. County aren’t backing down.
The numbers from this year's point-in-time homelessness count delivered a major blow to Bass, who is seeking reelection and has made the issue a central part of her agenda.
Plus, new polling shows the Los Angeles mayor’s race tightening, dozens of immigrants are on a hunger strike at a detention facility near LA, our weekend movie reviews, and Evan Kleiman talks zucchini.
Liam Dillon and Ben Oreskes of the L.A. Times interview Mayor Karen Bass about homelessness and housing problems in California.



