Piedmont | News | Jun 14 Piedmont Area Home Prices Up Recently Home prices have skyrocketed in the Piedmont area since the pandemic began. Rich Scinto Thank Share Piedmont | News | May 11 See How Rents Have Changed In Piedmont Area The fair market rent for a two-bedroom rental increased from the previous year. Local Data Thank Share Piedmont | News | Apr 23 ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart'; Bay Area Real Estate Market Heating Up To Pre-Pandemic Levels The real estate resurgence has been slowly building for several months as COVID-19 restrictions have eased. CBS San Francisco Thank Share Piedmont | News | Apr 15 Piedmont Area Home Prices Up In Past Year Here is how much home prices have changed over the past year in Alameda County … [Read more...]

Q: I live on the third floor of a small rent-stabilized walk-up building in the East Village. I have a 1-year-old baby, and have been leaving my stroller at the landing near the bottom of the stairs since he was born. No one complained until a new tenant moved in and told the landlord that the stroller is a tripping hazard. Now the landlord is telling me to move the stroller, but carrying it and my baby up two flights of stairs seems dangerous. What can I do? And what would happen if I ignored the complaints? A: You are not allowed to store a stroller in the hallway. The city fire code prohibits it and, in all likelihood, so does your lease. Your neighbor could have come to you with his concerns rather than call the landlord, but he’s not wrong. “It’s illegal because it has the potential to impede ingress and egress during a fire, both of the firefighters and the residents of the building,” said Samuel J. Himmelstein, a lawyer who represents tenants. If you … [Read more...]

Ask a question or share local news Post New opportunity for South Gate-Lynwood local journalists Are you passionate about your town? Patch Labs is giving local reporters the chance to earn a living by covering their own communities. Marina Del Rey, CA | News | 22h Human Remains ID'd From Ballona Wetlands Authorities Friday identified the human remains found at the Ballona Wetlands. Nicole Charky Thank Share Los Angeles, CA | News | 13h Calls For Mandatory Vaccines Mount As New Cases Top 3,000 In LA As COVID-19 cases nearly tripled in LA County over two weeks, Pasadena became the first local city to mandate city employee vaccinations. Paige Austin Thank Share Across America, US | Sponsored | Jul 12 Why Having A Real Estate Agent Is Key In A Record-Breaking Market As … [Read more...]

0 Schools See the latest announcement from UCLA. Press Release Desk Posted Reply Press release from UCLA: UCLA Anderson School of Management June 2, 2021 In March, the UCLA Anderson Forecast's first economic outlook for 2021 touted "robust growth for the U.S. and California" in anticipation of an abatement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The remains optimistic but also acknowledges the historical reality that economic recoveries are never smooth, and that ups and downs in the data that inform such predictions are to be expected. The June forecasts for the United States and California still anticipate a robust recovery. The forecasts include moderately higher inflation in the short term, housing and services driving the recovery and employment levels recovering to previous peaks over the coming year, but some sectors not recovering until much later. The national forecast The June forecast for the nation is based on … [Read more...]

See the article in its original context from January 3, 1984 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. THERE is not much that cools the blood more than the phrase ''visionary scheme'' except possibly the words ''architect's dream.'' A lot of this disdain for great, sweeping visions is based on the fact that large-scale planning has only rarely served us well, that it has all-too-frequently been conceived in arrogance and resulted in disaster. But at least some of this current mood must … [Read more...]

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. I’m fond of repeating a shopping statistic that often surprises people. In the United States — even during the pandemic — only about $14 out of each $100 worth of stuff we buy is spent online. Amazon is responsible for roughly $5 of that. So is Amazon a giant that dominates our internet spending or a blip in America’s shopping universe? It depends on how you look at the numbers. Amazon is huge in internet sales, but puny relative to all the goods Americans buy. Our perception of Amazon’s size influences how the public and policymakers think about the company. And yet while the company’s share of spending matters, it also doesn’t tell us everything. Permit me to get a little nerdy about numbers. Without a doubt, Amazon is the king of online shopping in the United States. The research firm eMarketer estimated that Amazon will be responsible for more than 40 percent of Americans’ … [Read more...]