Getty Images/EyeEm It’s not good-bye — we’re moving to a new home. Dear readers, hate-readers, and vicious commenters, Googie. “Greenmailing.” NIMBYs. (So many NIMBYs!) Ugly buildings. Beautiful buildings. Maps. Maps. Maps. Renderings. Filming locations. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Beyoncé’s house. Jeff Bezos’s house. Regular people’s houses. Haunted houses. Walk more, drive less. Seriously, though: Drive less. Trailblazing architects and groundbreaking designers. Travel. Conspiracies. Breeze blocks. Snow. Heat. One epic Los Angeles love letter. For more than 14 years, Curbed LA chronicled an ..read more

A shady front porch beckons from the end of the landscaped walkway. | Photos by Anthony Barcelo Photography, courtesy of Michele Moses/Ernie Carswell and Associates It also has a koi pond. Price: $1,438,000 Location: Koreatown Situated in a pocket of lush, palm-tree-lined blocks in the northwest corner of Koreatown, 138 South Hobart Boulevard is walking distance from the shops and restaurants along Western Avenue. Nestled among homes with ample front lawns, the house is only a mile from some of the best Korean BBQ in L.A. along West 8th Street. Larchmont Village, with its multitude of shops an ..read more

Images of protests on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills inspired a protest in Bel Air. | AFP via Getty Images In Bel Air, the negative response backfired on those who didn’t want a protest at all. The twisting, mansion-lined roads in the L.A. hills had been relatively quiet as tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets in the flats below after George Floyd was killed by police officers on May 25. But it’s getting louder in Bel Air. On a recent Friday, Three 6 Mafia’s “Hit a Muthafucka,” UGK’s “Tell Me Something Good,” and YG and Nipsey Hussle’s “Fuck Donald Trump” blasted from the speakers ..read more

The compact home lives large under skylights and vaulted beam ceilings. Price: $699,000 Location: Echo Park One of eight bungalows clustered into a small cul-de-sac off the east side of the street, 1821 1⁄2 Echo Park Avenue is of walking distance to the west side of Elysian Park, including its 2.3-mile dog-friendly trail. Dodger Stadium (currently serving as L.A. County’s largest COVID-19 testing site) and the plentiful shops and restaurants along Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park are all a three-minute drive away. Specs: 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 936 square feet, 0.04 acres According to building permit ..read more

The property is well hidden from the street. | Photos by Christine Bullard, courtesy of Alyssa Valentine and Kurt Wisner/Compass The airy abode makes the most of its space. Price: $899,000 Location: Highland Park Tucked into the hills west of Figueroa, 1209 Le Gray Avenue sits on the curve of a narrow sidewalkless street that feels more like a country backroad the deeper you go. Reinforcing the oldfangled rusticity is the nearby Galco’s Soda Pop Stop, a century-old family-run business purveying a dizzying selection of old-timey sodas and candy. Specs: 2 beds, 1 baths, 972 square feet, 0.25 acr ..read more

Photos by Suzy Poling, courtesy of Lauren Reichenberg/Compass Plus stained glass and scalloped cabinets. LOCATION: Los Feliz — Sitting on the northeast corner of Los Feliz, 3024 Surry Street is about a block west of the Rowena Reservoir. There was some talk of turning the ten-acre fenced reservoir into a true public recreation space last year, but for now it’s a scenic spot for strolling by (you’ll probably pass it on the way to Gelson’s or Trader Joe’s, both less than half a mile away). PRICE: $1,399,000 SPECS: 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,302 square feet, 0.21 acres — Built in 1937, this tile-roofed S ..read more

AFP via Getty Images “‘Are our leaders capable of solving this problem?’ I think is a really valid question at this point.” The number of people without homes in L.A. County now stands at 66,433, a 13 percent jump since last year’s count, according to new numbers released today by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). It’s the second year of double-digit increases in the homeless population for both the county and the city of Los Angeles, where the unhoused population is up 14 percent since 2018. Robin Petering, who runs a research and advocacy company that works with homeless o ..read more

Getty Images Under a new bill, tenants would not be evicted for missing rent payments. For years, California has been gripped by a housing-affordability and homelessness crisis, which has only been amplified over the past three months by a global pandemic. As the state begins to reopen, emergency measures designed to help renters will lapse, and evictions will mount. “There is no evidence that state or local leaders have begun to plan for what now appears to be an inevitable intensification of what was already a humanitarian crisis,” UCLA professor and public-interest attorney Gary Blasi said ..read more

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong The freeway system displaced generations of people of color. When Angelenos gathered downtown to protest the murder of George Floyd, they started at City Hall and eventually made their way toward the 101. Pastor Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie from the Row Church led the first group of protesters onto the freeway, which they occupied for roughly 30 minutes. Ever since the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, uprisings protesting police brutality and racism have blocked freeways throughout America. The freeway and highway systems in the U.S. are part of “a long, long, long history of l ..read more

This midcentury home was the long-time family residence of Harry and Alys Pryor, who were pillars of the Glendale community. | Images by Geoff Yale Photography, courtesy of Jacki Tenerelli Asplund/Compass Greenery galore. LOCATION: Glendale — You won’t find much by way of restaurants or retail establishments in Glendale’s Oakmont neighborhood, with its only access point being a narrow bridge over Verdugo Creek. What you will find is greenery, and plenty of it, from the 244-acre Verdugo Mountains Open Space Preserve to the century-old Oakmont Country Club. Housing stock is solidly mid-century ..read more