Carol MaHarry was on the same wavelength as lots of readers who see a chance to address a major problem in greater Los Angeles. Some now have apartments, senior housing, high schools, churches, medical clinics, parks, business offices and other forms of commerce and entertainment. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)Can that old mall store be your next apartment? As I wrote on Sunday, California in general and Los Angeles in particular are in the midst of a massive housing shortage. “You have large swaths of land, the land is valuable and the current use of it is not,” said Manville.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 21, 2017 12:00 UTC