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Yue Stella Yu & Ben Christopher CalMatters In Santa Rosa, a mother of six children says she’s struggling to pay the rent following her husband’s deportation — but fears eviction if she even requests to move into a smaller place from her landlord. In Los Angeles, a Latino family sued their...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters El mercado nacional de la vivienda está estancado en un bache post-pandémico. Los precios y los tipos de interés se han estancado en máximos inasequibles, manteniendo a raya a los compradores. Los vendedores, incapaces de conseguir los precios aún más altos que desean, están abandonando el...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters The national housing market is stuck in a post-pandemic rut. Prices and interest rates have stalled out at unaffordable highs, keeping buyers at bay. Sellers, unable to fetch the still-higher prices they want, are backing out of the market in droves. The result is a housing market...
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President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters The Newsom administration is moving swiftly to distribute by May billions of dollars from the 2024 mental health bond narrowly approved by voters, but concerns are emerging about whether areas of the state that have the greatest need will be left behind, according to testimony at...
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Alexei Koseff CalMatters For California political observers, the housing plan that Kamala Harris recently unveiled may have caused a twinge of familiarity. As a central plank of her agenda to “lower costs for American families,” the Democratic presidential nominee pledged in August to build 3 million additional affordable homes and rentals...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters In a flurry of recent legislation and initiatives, California officials are pushing school districts to convert their surplus property into housing for teachers, school staff and even students and families. Some districts have already started; now the state wants every district to become a landlord. “I...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Desesperados por encontrar una forma de ayudar a las decenas de miles de personas que viven en tiendas de campaña, automóviles y vehículos recreativos en las calles de California, los legisladores están intentando cambiar un principio clave de la política estatal para las personas sin hogar....
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Desperate for a way to help the tens of thousands of people living in tents, cars and RVs on California’s streets, lawmakers are attempting to upend a key tenet of the state’s homelessness policy. Two new bills would allow state funding to support sober housing —...
Yue Stella Yu & Ben Christopher CalMatters In Santa Rosa, a mother of six children says she’s struggling to pay the rent following her husband’s deportation — but fears eviction if she even requests to move into a smaller place from her landlord. In Los Angeles, a Latino family sued their...
Ben Christopher CalMatters El mercado nacional de la vivienda está estancado en un bache post-pandémico. Los precios y los tipos de interés se han estancado en máximos inasequibles, manteniendo a raya a los compradores. Los vendedores, incapaces de conseguir los precios aún más altos que desean, están abandonando el...
Ben Christopher CalMatters The national housing market is stuck in a post-pandemic rut. Prices and interest rates have stalled out at unaffordable highs, keeping buyers at bay. Sellers, unable to fetch the still-higher prices they want, are backing out of the market in droves. The result is a housing market...
President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters The Newsom administration is moving swiftly to distribute by May billions of dollars from the 2024 mental health bond narrowly approved by voters, but concerns are emerging about whether areas of the state that have the greatest need will be left behind, according to testimony at...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters For California political observers, the housing plan that Kamala Harris recently unveiled may have caused a twinge of familiarity. As a central plank of her agenda to “lower costs for American families,” the Democratic presidential nominee pledged in August to build 3 million additional affordable homes and rentals...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters In a flurry of recent legislation and initiatives, California officials are pushing school districts to convert their surplus property into housing for teachers, school staff and even students and families. Some districts have already started; now the state wants every district to become a landlord. “I...
Marisa Kendall CalMatters Desesperados por encontrar una forma de ayudar a las decenas de miles de personas que viven en tiendas de campaña, automóviles y vehículos recreativos en las calles de California, los legisladores están intentando cambiar un principio clave de la política estatal para las personas sin hogar....
Marisa Kendall CalMatters Desperate for a way to help the tens of thousands of people living in tents, cars and RVs on California’s streets, lawmakers are attempting to upend a key tenet of the state’s homelessness policy. Two new bills would allow state funding to support sober housing —...