Daniel and everyone at the house are incredibly kind and generous people who helped me out a lot while I was staying with them. I can totally recommend staying with them simply for their openness and warmth.
If you're interested in being in LA with a group of people who are interested in the world and who are interested in you, then this will be the place for you.
The house is big, so is the kitchen, and the room is clean and bright. The area - check out the Green Table cafe round the corner on Pico, Paper and Plastik on the other side of fairfax, and all of Little Ethiopia just down the block. Actually though, the best Ethiopian place I tried is Awash, just round the corner from the house on Pico, on the walk down to Green Table. It barely looks like a shopfront and you might easily walk past it, as I did, but seek it out.