In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, ... There are, after all, services in plenty of slums around the world. Last week, a fire broke out at one of Oakland’s tiny-home villages.

Amber Portwood has no interest in calling California home, despite her son living there; even if she did, she says she can't ...

Los Angeles’ most notorious slum apartment house--a place so foul that infamous convicted slumlord Dr. Milton Avol was once sentenced to live there for 30 days--has been replaced with sparkling ...

For a few tense hours, it seemed so. It was the second time in seven months that the Los Angeles slum had erupted in anarchy. Though last week’s rioting in Watts appeared almost mild compared ...

It meant Los Angeles' own looks and lack of livability.The great, ... transplanted whole from a Los Angeles slum, stood accusingly before a backdrop of Los Angeles’ skyscraping city hall.

Drug-addled streets are becoming more commonplace in major liberal U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland. In Seattle, scenes of addiction have spread to neighborhoods where ...