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Family Features The last decade has seen a surge in cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke. These trends are leading researchers to conclude that the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) will...
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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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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters California ha invertido miles de millones de dólares en encontrar hogares para veteranos sin hogar, pero el número de ex miembros del servicio militar que viven en la calle se ha mantenido estable durante casi una década. Hoy en día, un tercio de los veteranos sin...
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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters California has poured billions of dollars into finding homes for unhoused veterans, but the number of former military service members living on the street has held steady for almost a decade. Today, a third of the nation’s unhoused veterans are in California. Tori Gibson of San...
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Desiree Garibay used to sleep outside in Redondo Beach. One night in July 2020, she was lying down in a city park and police issued her a ticket. She missed her court date, and the ticket became a warrant for her arrest. She said she became even more determined...