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More than 50,000 eviction notices set to explode across Los Angeles County this year will lead to a huge increase in the number of people being ousted from their homes, swelling the population of ...

Alcira Ayala stands outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Monday. She is fighting an eviction and hopes to get a lawyer to take the case. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In a bustling ...

L.A. County officials have moved ahead with a "right to counsel" policy, which would pair struggling tenants in unincorporated parts of the county with a lawyer as they fight eviction. (Brian van der ...

After years of living on the streets and in single-room-occupancy hotels, the cozy studio apartment in San Francisco’s Japantown felt like a sanctuary to Corey Lafayette. He’d moved with no furniture, ...