Gabriel Kahn

2 weeks ago | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

Last year, Los Angeles notched the highest number of animals being run over on record. This year isn’t looking any better. During 2024, the city received 32,398 requests to remove dead animals from the streets, according to records from the MyLA311 service data. That’s a 10% increase from the previous year and a 30% jump from five years prior. As any resident in the city has witnessed, the tally includes cats, possums, raccoons, squirrels and sometimes dogs or even coyotes.

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Gabriel Kahn |Bob Miller

... because we can tell stories about every neighborhood, not just every city … the question is, how do we actually get [the stories] that last mile, right?

Sep 19, 2024 | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

One hangover of the pandemic has been the stubbornly high number of collisions resulting from driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. It has contributed to the rising fatalities on Los Angeles roads, which last year outnumbered homicides in the city. This recent trend broke years of steady progress in reducing DUIs. In 2019, the U.S. recorded one of its lowest counts ever for DUI-related roadway fatalities since record-keeping began. That all ended with COVID.

Jul 24, 2024 | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

(Created with Mid-Journey) The pace of new construction in Los Angeles is slowing, raising the specter of rising rents and a diminished ability to address the region’s chronic housing shortage. New building permits in the city of Los Angeles for the first half of 2024 totaled 1,831, a 10% drop from the same period a year earlier and down 60% from five years ago. Other indicators are also pointing toward a slowdown in construction.

Jun 28, 2024 | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

For the first time in six years, Los Angeles was able to notch a small improvement in homelessness, as an array of county and city programs to move people off the streets and indoors began to make an impact. Homelessness remains the region’s most glaring humanitarian crisis. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported a drop of 0.3% countywide in its annual count (which takes place each January). The 2024 total of 75,312 is roughly the entire population of Upland.