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Ben Christopher CalMatters A dispute between a 72-year-old retiree in Placerville and El Dorado County over a $23,420 building fee got its day before the country’s highest court this morning in a case with potentially seismic consequences for local government budgets and housing markets across California and the country....
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters When California lawmakers passed a rent cap four years ago to protect tenants from large and frequent rent hikes, they exempted hundreds of thousands of units reserved for some of the state’s poorest renters. Low-income housing, after all, is usually built with public subsidies that already impose rent...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters La vida, la libertad, la búsqueda de la felicidad y… ¿de la vivienda? Los legisladores de California están tratando de consagrar el derecho a la vivienda en la constitución del estado. Pero ¿qué significa eso exactamente en un estado que carece de los recursos para dar a todos...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and…housing? California lawmakers are trying to enshrine the right to housing in the state’s constitution. But what exactly does that mean in a state that lacks the resources to give everyone a roof over their heads? Supporters say the constitutional amendment would...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters En todo California, las ciudades se están quedando cortas cuando se trata de proporcionar suficiente refugio para sus comunidades de personas sin hogar. Más de 69,000 residentes sin hogar viven en el condado de Los Ángeles, por ejemplo, pero ese condado tiene poco más de 21,000...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters All over California, cities are falling far short when it comes to providing enough shelter for their homeless communities. More than 69,000 homeless residents live in Los Angeles County, for instance, but that county has just over 21,000 beds in shelters and temporary housing programs. It’s...
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Pilar Marrero Ethnic Media Services El condado de Los Ángeles se prepara a poner en marcha un proyecto que podría reducir las barreras existentes para la construcción de las tan necesarias viviendas asequibles en la región. El modelo, que ya se utiliza en otras ciudades, permitiría al condado comprar...
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Pilar Marrero Ethnic Media Services Los Angeles County is getting ready to launch a project that could lower existing barriers to building much-needed affordable housing in the region. The model, already in use in other cities, would allow the county to purchase and hold land, keeping it out of...
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Across the country, with both state and federal moratoria on evictions for non-payment of rent set to expire September 30, more than 2 million adult renters are at imminent risk of eviction, 880,000 of them in California. Carolina Reid, of U.C. Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, cited these...