The city spends $17 million a year providing free lawyers for tenants and has set up a fellowship program to lure more law school graduates into the work. The collaborative triages cases, handing them ...

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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 ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to establish a long-debated “Right to Counsel” ordinance, which aims to provide free attorneys to low-income tenants facing eviction. Tenant rights groups ...

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, ...