L.A

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Peek inside 11 tiny homes during this free tour of L.A. ADUs (Los Angeles Times)

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a 400-square-foot garage conversion? Find out at this wide-ranging ADU tour in Los Angeles.

What’s his secret?](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-03-18/east-los-angeles-affordable-adu) [She built a granny flat in Echo Park: How it saved her during the pandemic](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-07-13/echo-park-adu-showcases-craftsman-danish-modern-styles) [elderly parents](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-05-18/adu-south-pasadena-multigenerational-housing-with-grandma), [grown children](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-08-08/los-angeles-adus-for-people-with-disabilities) or [renters](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-11-11/architects-split-a-1923-house-in-two-and-create-home-plus-adu) to supplement their income. Guests can register for the panel on [Eventbrite](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Flow-rise-housing-strategies-in-los-angeles-tickets-440535763327&data=05%7C01%7CLisa.Boone%40latimes.com%7C7221ef5bb4f4405a400408dabb6b73bd%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C638028367439963592%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5HtxP4lpAhhe9kyUdmF%2B4fG%2B%2BzjI9U9d677e9ZlNCv0%3D&reserved=0), and will have an opportunity to ask questions at a Q&A following the presentation. became a stylish ADU](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-01-25/garage-turned-adu-west-l-a) [They turned a house full of cockroaches and code violations into a ‘must have’ home — and ADU](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-11-11/architects-split-a-1923-house-in-two-and-create-home-plus-adu) [They turned a one-car garage into a stunning ADU to house their parents. [Neutra VDL Studio and Residences](https://neutra-vdl.org/), 2300 Silver Lake Blvd. [They worried about long-term housing for their disabled son — until they built an ADU](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-08-08/los-angeles-adus-for-people-with-disabilities) [This ADU rental with windows galore is a houseplant lover’s dream](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-07-06/los-angeles-garage-transformed-into-adu-rental) [How an aging Tudor’s ADU reunited a family and brought them closer together](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-05-18/adu-south-pasadena-multigenerational-housing-with-grandma) [They were spending all their income on rent. When you’ve had your fill of houses, you can learn more about ADUs from a variety of perspectives as architect Linda Taalman moderates a panel discussion on low-rise densification efforts throughout L.A. The tour will include projects by Los Angeles architects and design firms A Google map, with a description of each home and address, is available on the city of L.A.'s Most notably, this could be done without altering the character of a neighborhood.” Admission to all of the homes is free, and no reservations are required. Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a 400-square-foot converted garage a stone’s throw from another single-family home on the same property?

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L.A. schools aim to recruit babies to stem drop in enrollment (Los Angeles Times)

L.A. Unified School District will reach out to parents of newborns to connect them with services in hopes of eventually offsetting rapidly declining ...

There are about 422,000 students in the school system. The hope is that more families will receive timely assistance and L.A. The entry for “Age 5 - 18+" notes, “There are many high-quality and specialized programs available in L.A. Carvalho is out to pitch an L.A. “We want to make sure that we’re really wrapping ourselves around — in terms of support — to the family and to the small child that’s about to be born,” Soto said, adding: “Our priority is that pathway to a better experience, a healthy home environment and a healthy community environment.” “The notion of health goes far beyond the walls of a hospital, and we recognize that education is so critical to the development of families, to the development of children,” said medical center Chief Executive Jorge Orozco.

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LA Parking Lot Becomes a Screening Room for Street Photography (Hyperallergic)

Projecting LA featured honest portraits of the city by 35 street, documentary, news, and student photographers — with not a single Hollywood sign in sight.

With its seemingly endless patchwork of residential neighborhoods interlaced in a serpentine network of highways, Los Angeles has the reputation of a city where streets are vectors of mobility, not places where life is lived. “That was opposite of shooting in a big city, but still very similar, because at the end of the day, street photography is just about human connection.” The Hollywood sign is thankfully nowhere to be seen. Contemporary developments of the past few years are chronicled in more in-depth series, such as Capturing Covid by Los Angeles Times photographer Francine Orr, which focuses on the fear, loss, and hope experienced at hospitals during the early pandemic. “When I discovered street photography as an artform, everything was very much East Coast,” photographer Louis White told Hyperallergic at the event. The screening was accompanied by a five-day street photography workshop led by Dean at the Leica Akademie of America, and a selection of prints from Projecting L.A. The photographers of Projecting L.A. Acclaimed photographer Estevan Oriol’s work spans the underground to celebrity, reflecting Latinx lowrider and tattoo scenes as well as well-known figures like Snoop Dogg. will be donated to the collection of the Los Angeles Central Library, becoming part of the public record of the life of the city. “LA has the rap of being glitz and glamor, but this is an innovative attempt at revolutionizing how we see art. Julia Dean’s own contribution, a series titled Jose Hernandez: The Guardian of the Alley, is an intimate portrait of homelessness focused on the daily life of one person. On a recent chilly Saturday evening, a parking lot in Los Angeles’s Chinatown was transformed into a makeshift screening room as photographs documenting street life across the vast city were projected onto the rear of a four-story building.

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Meet LA Vanguardia, the Latino vanguard shaping L.A. culture (Los Angeles Times)

Our inaugural LA Vanguardia class is an amazing array of Latino talent shaping the movies, TV, music, fine arts and literary scene of today — and tomorrow.

This is not a ranking. This is not a Latino hot list. This is not a comprehensive study. To be clear, this is not a Latino power list. Not in one year. Not much!

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Coronavirus Today: How L.A.'s sprawl fueled COVID deaths (Los Angeles Times)

One L.A. neighborhood has a population density higher than New York City's but none of its skyscrapers. The result is sardine-like overcrowding.

Here’s [what to look for and when](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-02/the-coronavirus-waiting-game-it-can-take-days-for-symptoms-to-appear-longer-for-severe-illness#). Check out [our archive here](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-18/covid-19-questions-answered-vaccines-testing-masks-symptoms-more). The agency [gathered a panel of experts Tuesday](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-11-01/fda-advisers-meet-on-racial-disparities-in-pulse-oximeters) to discuss what could be done to alleviate this racial disparity and make sure the devices are safe for everyone. [Orange County](https://othena.com/) [Ventura County](https://www.venturacountyrecovers.org/vaccine-information/portal/) [Kern County](https://kernpublichealth.com/2019-novel-coronavirus/) [walked out of a Foxconn plant](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-10-31/workers-walk-out-of-iphone-factory-highlighting-virus-woes) where iPhones are assembled because they feared the company wasn’t keeping them safe from COVID-19. [Zoe Health Study](https://health-study.joinzoe.com/blog/covid-new-top-5-covid-symptoms), which uses an app to collect health information from legions of volunteers. “Emerging variants and subvariants of the virus have played a large role in driving [past surges](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-22/how-winter-california-covid-19-surge-got-so-bad),” she said, adding that “we ought to prepare for the possibility of another winter surge.” Biden didn’t get his shot when it first came out because he [came down with COVID-19](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-07-21/why-bidens-bout-with-covid-19-is-likely-to-be-easier-than-trumps) this summer and opted to wait a few months to boost his immunity, as the CDC recommends. [statement](https://www.who.int/news/item/27-10-2022-tag-ve-statement-on-omicron-sublineages-bq.1-and-xbb) issued last week by the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution said that BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have demonstrated “a significant growth advantage” over other subvariants, and not just in the U.S. The X axis across the bottom indicates the percentage of households in a particular neighborhood that are overcrowded, meaning they house more than one person per room (excluding bathrooms).

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