The Elrod House perched high above Palm Springs was once the star of a James Bond movie in which Sean Connery and two femme fatales tumbled from the living room-turned-lair…
The hot afternoon sun beat down on a row of half-built houses. Near the center of the street, in dusty Lot #38, Esteban Gutierrez climbed a ladder and drilled screws…
Alina and Pedro De Anda are outgrowing their one-room casita in a corner of a quiet gated community in La Quinta. With an energetic 2-year-old son and another child on…
Some months, Harriet Marks-Nelson and Madge Sutter can hardly afford to pay rent on their cozy park model overlooking the desert wilderness. In a bad month, they are forced to…
More than 30 years ago, Theodore Szal abandoned his car at a Chicago airport and didn’t look back. “I threw my keys away down the sewer grate so I couldn’t…