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And Californians have no simple way to check if a provider at a health facility or home health agency was previously banned from operating assisted living facilities by the state.

🗞️INVESTIGATION 🗞️. In California, people banned by the state from operating assisted living facilities have been able to stay involved in other kinds of care facilities, the LA Times has found.

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RT @DanielNMiller: Anti-Trump immigration protesters have blocked the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles for nearly two hours. It is still….

RT @DanielNMiller: Anti-Trump immigration protestors dance on a 101 Freeway overpass in downtown L.A.

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Overall, average rent rose 7.7 percentage points more at the pension-linked buildings than apartments in the surrounding neighborhoods, according to our analysis. Nearly 40% of properties saw rent rise at least 10 percentage points more.

Using industry databases, we analyzed rental trends at 133 properties in California that were acquired by the investment funds that received commitments from California pensions over an eight-year period ending in 2022.

Interviews with tenants and our LA Times analysis of industry rent data show the funds often sharply hike rents, squeezing some of the same middle-class workers that pension systems are meant to benefit.

“The cost of living is ridiculous,” said Erich Tran, who along with his partner Tyler Bahr got a nearly 6% rent increase last year at The Vue. A year earlier, their rent had risen almost 8%.

After a real estate investment fund purchased The Vue high rise in San Pedro in 2021, average asking rent increased by 18.8%. That compares to a 10.4% rise in the surrounding submarket.

🗞️NEWS THREAD 🗞️. Public pension investments are designed to beef up the plans that teachers and other public employees rely on when they retire. But critics of these higher risk real estate funds say their very design encourages gentrification.

RT @RyFons: 🧵New reporting from me on a story I've been covering for nearly five years. If you want to understand why Los Angeles and othe….