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  • 2 weeks ago | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

    (Image generated with MidJourney)Amidst Los Angeles’s otherwise out-of-control housing market, one bright spot is emerging: Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are popping up all over the place. ADUs are smallish apartments made from either converted garages or new structures erected on lots next to existing houses. They were made possible by a state law that went into effect in 2017 that stripped away bureaucratic hurdles.

  • 1 month ago | xtown.la | Gabriel Kahn

    Through April 12 of this year, 39 pedestrians in the city of Los Angeles were killed in traffic collisions, according to LAPD Traffic Division Compstat data. During the same period a decade earlier, there were 26 deaths. In the intervening years, Los Angeles launched a program called Vision Zero, spearheaded by then-Mayor Eric Garcetti. Its goal: Eliminate all traffic deaths in the city by 2025. For pedestrians walking in a famously unwalkable city, the opposite has happened.

  • 2 months 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.

  • Feb 26, 2025 | 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.

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