Jenna Chandler is the editor of Curbed LA. She oversees the site's editorial operations and writes about housing. Before joining Curbed in 2016, she was a staff writer at the Orange County Register, a senior local editor at Patch, and a reporter for the Porterville Recorder in California's San Joaquin Valley. Raised in Los Angeles and Orange counties, she always puts "the" in front of freeway names (but never before PCH). She has lived in Long Beach and Santa Monica; today she lives between Pailin Thai Cuisine and Griffith Park.
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The best holiday markets in Los Angeles
The coolest shopping events for handmade trinkets and presents, many of them crafted right here in LA.
LA’s future isn’t all tall towers. It’s duplexes and bungalow courts.
They cost a lot less to build—and can support cheaper rents.
Can you design a better streetlight for LA?
The city is launching a public competition to come up with a new design "emblematic of 21st-century Los Angeles."
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Mapping East Hollywood’s mini development boom
New mixed-use apartment buildings are sprouting up as the neighborhood gains recognition for its flourishing bar and restaurant scene.
Here’s what $639K buys around Los Angeles
Options include an adorable Altadena cottage and a loft in downtown Long Beach.
LA looks to buy rent-controlled buildings at risk of demolition
"We need to come up with solutions to keep our fellow Angelenos in their homes and stop the flow into homelessness," says councilmember.
Spectacular Spanish-style seeks $1.35M in Pasadena
Beautiful inside and out.
Lofty Bronson Canyon house designed in 1979 asking $1.6M
Soaring ceilings and lots of natural light.
How the New York Times gets Los Angeles hilariously wrong: The bingo game
They just don’t get us.
She won the affordable housing lottery. The odds were 140 in 3,000.
Johanna Blocker was homeless before her application was picked for a new affordable apartment complex.