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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 —...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Durante los últimos dos años, el “remedio del constructor” ha sido el adolescente rebelde de las leyes de vivienda de California. La ley, que pasa por alto las regulaciones de zonificación y siembra angustia entre los funcionarios electos locales, permite a los desarrolladores construir todo lo...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters For the last two years the “builder’s remedy” has been the unruly teenager of California housing laws. Running roughshod over zoning regulations while sowing angst among local elected officials, the law lets developers build as much as they like, wherever they like, in cities and counties...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters El año pasado, los legisladores estatales rompieron con la tradición al no incluir una excepción para la costa de California en una importante ley de vivienda. Esa omisión deliberada se produjo a pesar de la oposición de la Comisión Costera de California, la agencia estatal creada...
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 —...
Ben Christopher CalMatters Durante los últimos dos años, el “remedio del constructor” ha sido el adolescente rebelde de las leyes de vivienda de California. La ley, que pasa por alto las regulaciones de zonificación y siembra angustia entre los funcionarios electos locales, permite a los desarrolladores construir todo lo...
Ben Christopher CalMatters For the last two years the “builder’s remedy” has been the unruly teenager of California housing laws. Running roughshod over zoning regulations while sowing angst among local elected officials, the law lets developers build as much as they like, wherever they like, in cities and counties...
Ben Christopher CalMatters El año pasado, los legisladores estatales rompieron con la tradición al no incluir una excepción para la costa de California en una importante ley de vivienda. Esa omisión deliberada se produjo a pesar de la oposición de la Comisión Costera de California, la agencia estatal creada...