Liam Dillon covers the issues of housing affordability and neighborhood change across California for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the newsroom in 2016 and prior to this assignment, covered state politics and policy for its Sacramento Bureau. Before coming to The Times, Dillon covered local politics in Southwest Florida and San Diego. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University and grew up outside Philadelphia.
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Sept. 24, 2023
Residents of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties have until Oct. 16 to file their taxes.
Sept. 24, 2023
California legislators vote to ban laws that force landlords to evict tenants based on criminal histories. Such policies can disproportionately affect Black and Latino renters.
Sept. 14, 2023
As L.A. deals with a housing crisis, new data show how the threat of eviction affects not only poor communities but middle- and high-income ones too.
Sept. 7, 2023
Reality television personalities Tarek and Heather El Moussa are evicting rent-controlled tenants to build new apartments. Tenants say they’re owed more because their landlord committed arson.
Aug. 4, 2023
L.A. developer Akhilesh Jha is pushing the envelope in proposing to tear down single-family homes and build apartments using new provisions in state law.
Aug. 1, 2023
A Riverside County wildfire swelled to 2,206 acres as of Saturday evening. Parts of a nearby residential community remained under evacuation orders.
July 29, 2023
Months before City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto recommended Mark Adams for the equivalent of an open-ended, no-bid contract to oversee 1,500 Skid Row tenants, Adams hosted a fundraiser for her campaign.
July 11, 2023
Mark Adams, the receiver responsible for overseeing 1,500 tenants in Skid Row, resigned Thursday after a turbulent three-month tenure.
June 29, 2023
After a testy hearing, a Los Angeles Superior Court authorized a new loan to stave off insolvency for the receiver overseeing the repair of 29 dilapidated buildings and approved the removal of seven buildings from the receivership.
June 17, 2023