Features
Research
Parking: New Rules, Unexpected Results
Rules intended to spur housing instead help restaurants, nightlife
Profile
Dominique Carter: From Unhoused to Safe
Homelessness takes many forms. Recovery begins with a place to live.
Research
Special Report: Old Tool, New Potential
Time-limited subsidies deliver results in field where failure is common
Table Talk
Karen Bass: On Housing ‘My People’
Mayor takes on L.A.’s most difficult issue with deep determination
Table Talk
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso: A Blueprint Debate
Debate: Caruso and Bass debate homelessness, public safety and whether to charge Donald Trump
Table Talk
Eric Garcetti: Reflections from L.A.’s mayor
Crime and COVID, rising homelessness and restive politics — Garcetti looks back on nine years as chief executive of Los Angeles.
Research
L.A. Housing: Racism, skyrocketing prices and now a homeless crisis
How housing has shaped the landscape of Los Angeles. And vice versa
Table Talk
Frank Gehry on the Life of Cities
Visionary and humanitarian, Frank Gehry creates buildings and neighborhoods that serve people and satisfy souls
Research
COVID’s Losses: Lives, Jobs, Hope
The unequal toll of a devastating year and the challenge ahead
Research
Working for Safety
Jorja Leap spearheads an effort to examine the LAPD’s work in Nickerson Gardens and beyond
Research
Homeless Prevention
The best way to address homelessness may be to prevent it. But how to do that?
Research
Housing: One size does not fit all
Housing advocates bump up against politics in the attempt to confront one of California’s most difficult problems
Profile
Evelyn Blumenberg: Seeing with Fresh Eyes
New thinking on homelessness — the demands of urgency
Research
Do the Poor Bring Crime with Them?
Michael Lens challenges assumptions about the poor, housing and crime
Research
Reconsidering the Single-Family Home
Has the single-family home outlived its usefulness? A UCLA professor dares to question
Research
World Lessons, Learned at Home
Homelessness takes on different forms and requires different responses around the world
Sketches
Editor's Note
Closing Note: Of challenges and opportunities
Los Angeles faces a difficult future, but does so with resources and potential
Takeaway
Closing Note: Of Urgency and Action
Quick solutions are impossible, but there is reason to persevere
Landscape
Health and the Homeless
For the unhoused, healthcare is hard to find. A new UCLA program seeks to address that.
First Person
Governing Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on governing through crises
Editor's Note
Welcome to Blueprint on Homelessness
Blueprint turns to homelessness, a growing tragedy in California and beyond
Landscape
40 Years Later: How Has Proposition 13 Fared?
California’s historic initiative protected homes, hurt services and schools
Takeaway
No Single Solution
To grapple with homelessness, we must begin by considering the varied nature of its challenge
