Liam Dillon
@liamjdillon.com
Covering housing in Los Angeles and California for POLITICO.
1978 cutoff for LA cannot be changed due to state law. Apartments 15 years or older — it rolls every year — have an annual rent cap that’s 5% + inflation also per state law.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
1978 cutoff for LA cannot be changed due to state law. Apartments 15 years or older — it rolls every year — have an annual rent cap that’s 5% + inflation also per state law.
Thanks for sharing this. There's a ton of discuss of various issues of equity in the housing space, but generational equity I think is slightly undervalued in debates. I'm still proud of this piece I did a number of years ago that covered this head on: www.latimes.com/politics/la-...
Must Reads: California homeowners get to pass low property taxes to their kids. It's proved highly profitable to an elite group
A generation of California homeowners enjoy a significant perk that keeps their property tax bill low. Part of that is thanks to Proposition 13, which has strictly limited property tax increases since...
www.latimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Thanks for sharing this. There's a ton of discuss of various issues of equity in the housing space, but generational equity I think is slightly undervalued in debates. I'm still proud of this piece I did a number of years ago that covered this head on: www.latimes.com/politics/la-...
Bluesky account was tied to old work email address. this is how they need to verify that I'm still in charge of the account even though I don't have access to the old email..
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bluesky account was tied to old work email address. this is how they need to verify that I'm still in charge of the account even though I don't have access to the old email..
thanks so much for the very kind words!
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
thanks so much for the very kind words!
Absolutely correct. Couldn’t really get into too much depth but we touched on some of those issues in this companion story www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
Younger, richer and smaller: How California’s era of wildfire has changed communities forever
Recent large wildfires in California have changed communities forever in ways difficult to predict. Rebuilding statistics tell only part of the story.
www.latimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Absolutely correct. Couldn’t really get into too much depth but we touched on some of those issues in this companion story www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
I don’t start for another few weeks but feel free to DM me
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I don’t start for another few weeks but feel free to DM me