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Saving for a down payment is one of the biggest barriers to buying a home, but it doesn’t have to be. Not only are down payment assistance programs helping people unlock homeownership, but some mortgage programs make it possible to put down as little as 3%. Here’s what to...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Mientras el presidente electo Donald Trump se prepara para asumir el cargo, los demócratas de California están desarrollando nuevos planes para fortalecer las protecciones contra el aborto en el estado. El Fiscal General Rob Bonta anunció hoy dos propuestas legislativas destinadas a salvaguardar el aborto con medicamentos y...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, California Democrats are developing new plans to strengthen the state’s abortion protections. Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced two legislative proposals aimed at safeguarding medication abortion and enforcing the state’s Reproductive Privacy Act, which ensures individuals have the right to make...
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Los delitos contra la propiedad en California están cerca de mínimos históricos, según las últimas estadísticas del Departamento de Justicia de California. Un nuevo informe del Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice encuentra que los delitos contra la propiedad han disminuido un 53% en todo el estado desde 2005 y un...
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Property crime in California is near record lows, according to the latest statistics from the California Department of Justice. A new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice finds property crime is down 53% statewide since 2005, and 16% since 2009, when criminal justice reforms began to take effect....
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services After three weeks of intense pressure from members of his own party to step down, President Joe Biden announced July 21 that he would not seek re-election and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters El 28 de junio, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos otorgó a las ciudades más poder para arrestar, citar y multar a personas que duermen al aire libre en lugares públicos, anulando seis años de protecciones legales para residentes sin hogar en California y otros estados...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cities more power to arrest, cite and fine people who sleep outside in public places — overturning six years of legal protections for homeless residents in California and other western states. In Grants Pass v. Johnson, the court sided with...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters California distribuirá $250 millones más en asistencia para el pago inicial a compradores de vivienda por primera vez esta primavera, al tiempo que realizará cambios en su programa de un año de antigüedad destinado a llegar a un grupo más diverso de prestatarios en todo el...