Why LA's Most Common Building Is The Most DANGEROUS

Los Angeles has thousands of apartment buildings that engineers have known were dangerous for more than 50 years. Many of them are still standing exactly as they were built. In this video, we break down the hidden housing design flaw that makes certain LA apartments far more likely to collapse during a major earthquake, how a parking rule from 1946 helped create the problem, and why one of America’s largest retrofit programs remains unfinished decades after the danger was identified. Because the next major earthquake won’t create this disaster… it will reveal it.