Los Angeles City Council shelved a Measure ULA apartment-tax carve-out, keeping the mansion tax intact for new multifamily while housing investment concerns linger. LAist also reports stark violence risks for unhoused Angelenos and fresh questions over Olympic displacement planning.

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Keith Porter Jr. was 43 when he was fatally shot. (Genaro Molina / Getty Images) The Los Angeles Police Department has completed its investigation into the killing of Keith Porter Jr., 43, and presented its findings to the District Attorney’s Office, according to a statement from the District Attorney’s Office. Federal officials have said Brian Palacios, the off-duty ICE officer who shot and…

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Measure ULA faces a Los Angeles City Council decision on a proposed new-multifamily exemption, while county payouts, homelessness tactics, supportive-housing safety, and classroom injuries all put LA’s reform promises under a harder accountability lens.

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L.A. County will pay the family of a man killed by sheriff's deputies $9.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. (Brian Feinzimer / LAist) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to pay $9.6 million to the family of a man fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies in Compton in 2020 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. The unusually large settlement came amid claims Samuel Herrera…

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Teachers say they’re being bitten, headbutted and bruised while trying to manage classrooms — LAist

Lisa Just looks out the back window of her Torrance home. She used to teach in the Long Beach Unified School District. (Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post) After more than a decade teaching in special education settings, Lisa Just was well-practiced at managing her Carver Elementary classroom in a way that kept students safe. She stayed alert to behavioral cues, and when students started getting…

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LAHSA is suing HUD to lift a federal funding suspension before L.A.’s Aug. 26 homelessness-grant deadline, while Los Angeles and LA28 have a tentative Olympic cost-reimbursement deal that still leaves security spending as the big taxpayer risk.

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1. LA’s lead homelessness agency sues HUD, challenging suspension of funds — LAist

   Tents in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles on June 11, 2026. (Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty Images) Topline: L.A.’s lead homelessness agency, LAHSA, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday, asking a judge for relief from a federal funding suspension it calls unjustified. How we got here: On June 11, HUD suspended the Los Angeles Homeless Services…

2. LA has a delayed deal to recoup Olympic costs, but concerns about who will pay for security remain — LAist

   LA28 chair Casey Wasserman speaks with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on August 10, 2024. (Luke Hales / Getty Images) After months of hand-wringing, Los Angeles and LA28 have come to a tentative agreement on how Olympics organizers will reimburse the city for its expenses for the 2028 Summer Games. According to the deal, the private Olympic organizing committee will pay…

3. Newsom’s parting gift: A budget that delays California’s deep cuts to 2027 — LAist

   Following weeks of negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders have agreed on a $351.7 billion budget next year that raises some taxes, sets aside $6.4 billion for the year after and softens or delays billions of dollars in planned social service cuts. The budget, Newsom’s last, will leave the California budget balanced for two consecutive years and reduce future year…

4. ICE raids slowed foot traffic for these small businesses. Then came the Boyle Heights warehouse fire — LAist

   Felipe Hernandez poses for a portrait at Ponciano Produce in East Los Angeles, Calif. on June 26, 2026. (Isaac Ceja / Boyle Heights Beat) This story first appeared on The LA Local . Last week, Felipe Hernandez saw fewer customers than usual. The produce vendor had already lost some foot traffic in East L.A. due to the ongoing ICE raids and COVID before that, but after the Lineage warehouse fire…

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Los Angeles City Council punted council expansion to 2028 as Boyle Heights residents press for answers after a Lineage warehouse fire, while new Florence and Alvarado bus lanes show smaller transportation fixes still moving.

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1. ULA bill fizzles in Sacramento, LAX people mover delays, and more | Urbanize LA — Urbanize LA

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An explosion scare, then a warehouse fire: Californians want answers about hazardous chemicals — LAist

Firefighters battle a blaze at a cold storage facility in the Boyle Heights neighborhood June 22. Authorities declared a state of emergency as the fire intensified, prompting evacuations in the surrounding area. The fire started June 17. (Ted Soqui / CalMatters) Manuel Valle, 84, jumped on his bike and rode through his Boyle Heights neighborhood despite the protests from his worried children. The…

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As Cold Storage Company Became Global Titan, Fire Risks Piled Up — Capital & Main

More than a week after fire broke out in a cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced it had finally stopped burning. But neighborhood residents whose homes were enveloped in smoke for days may feel the health and environmental effects of the blaze for weeks or even months. The fire sent thick plumes of black smoke into the air from Downtown Los Angeles to…

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Gavin Newsom backed an $11.25 billion California housing bond, while Metro’s Vermont Avenue bus project cleared an early court hurdle without bike lanes and LAHSA’s financial controls face sharper scrutiny over homelessness dollars.

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Judge rules Vermont Avenue bus project will move ahead, for now, without bike lanes — LAist

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Step Back — When LAHSA sends public homelessness money to nonprofit contractors, who is actually supposed to catch financial red flags before the checks go out — LAHSA, the city, the county, auditors, or nobody until something blows up?Background sources

• HUD Cuts Off Fraud-Filled Los Angeles Homelessness Funding | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• LA homeless agency has ‘significant’ problem with inaccurate financial statements, auditors find | LAist — LAist
• LA’s lead homelessness agency owes at least $69M to service providers in overdue payments | LAist — LAist
• LA’s regional homelessness agency hits pause on plans to reform internal audit unit | LAist — LAist
• Feds suspend LAHSA from receiving federal money, citing financial mismanagement - AOL — AOL
• LA officials and LAHSA trade blame as homeless service providers await millions in late payments | LAist — LAist

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Los Angeles homelessness funding is back in court as the Trump administration tries to redirect federal dollars away from permanent housing, while LAX’s people mover delays expose another deadline problem during the World Cup rush.

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1. Trump renews push to shift homelessness funding. What’s at stake — LAist

   Rows of tents at the O Lot Safe Sleeping site in San Diego on Aug. 12, 2024. The city of San Diego opened the site in 2023 to offer temporary shelter for unhoused residents after it began implementing the Unsafe Camping Ordinance, which bans homeless encampments. (Adriana Heldiz / CalMatters) The Trump administration is renewing its push to change the way it funds homeless shelters and housing in…

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Los Angeles City Council sent a half-cent LAFD sales tax to the November ballot, asking voters to fund staffing, stations and equipment while Measure ULA thresholds and county permit streamlining show how much local reform depends on implementation.

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1. Half-cent sales tax to fund LA city fire department heads to the Nov ballot — LAist

   An LAFD firefighter responds to an incident in downtown Los Angeles on May 1. (Patrick T. Fallon / Getty Images) The L.A. City Council on Tuesday agreed to place a half-cent sales tax to fund the fire department on the November ballot. The vote was 14-0. If approved by voters, the measure would raise $345 million in its first year and would remain in effect until repealed by voters. United…

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Inside Safe’s motel-to-housing pipeline, L.A.’s ADU code, and a RAND assessment of LAPD all point to one City Hall test: reform only matters if outcomes, permits, and public-safety capacity can actually be measured.

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1. Step Back — When Mayor Bass says Inside Safe has moved thousands of people indoors and nearly doubled permanent housing move-ins, what should we actually count as a successful outcome — a night in a motel, a signed lease, staying housed six months later — and does L.A. publish enough data to tell the difference?Background sources
   • L.A.’s $300 Million Homeless Program Sees Many Return to the Streets — Governing
   • 40 percent of people helped by Los Angeles mayor’s $300M homeless project have returned to the streets, report finds | The Independent — The Independent
   • CNN Anchor Grills LA's Karen Bass on $300 Million 'Failure' — Zachary Leeman
   • More than 250 tax-funded LA apartments sit empty under key Mayor Bass homelessness strategy | LAist — LAist
   • Opinion | Bass got some of LA's homeless people indoors — Jim Newton
   • New report questions LA's Inside Safe program results — Spectrumlocalnews
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Measure ULA reform moved toward Los Angeles’ November ballot after a 9-5 Council vote to draft apartment-sale exemptions, sharpening the stakes for housing production, homelessness funding and whether City Hall can fix policies without gutting their purpose.

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Los Angeles Inside Safe claims more than 70 people brought indoors from encampments, while LAPD staffing math and California housing reform debates sharpen the same question: which City Hall fixes are actually producing measurable results?

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1. Step Back — Every few months we hear LAPD is short hundreds of officers, but what is that staffing number actually supposed to buy Angelenos — faster 911 response, more cases solved, more visible patrols — and how would we know if adding officers is actually working?Background sources
   • L.A. Mayor Shifts Police Strategy as Staffing Hits 25-Year Low — Governing
   • LAPD chief flags officer staffing risks for 2028 Olympics — Police1
   • Policy Brief: Understanding Trends in Law Enforcement Staffing - Public Policy Institute of California — Ppic
   • City Council just gave LAPD the green light to hire more officers. How will LA pay for it? | LA Local — LAist
   • City Council just gave LAPD the green light to hire more officers. How will LA pay for it? | LAist — LAist
   • LA’s program that diverts mental health crisis calls away from police to expand | LAist — LAist
   • Organizational Assessment of the Los Angeles Police Department | RAND — RAND
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California’s recent wave of pro-housing legislation has opened the door for more development on single-family lots and urban infill sites, but how much progress have we really made?

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