October 9, 2020

California is in a housing crisis, but the state is not giving homeowners a way to finance the building more dwelling units on their property.

When the ballots arrived in Susan Lambert’s mailbox earlier this week, everyone in the house was accounted for. There was one for her, one for her husband, and two for her adult step-sons. And then there was the one for George. Lambert, a playwright, producer and writer who lives in Pasadena, didn’t recognize the name. […]

A CalMatters analysis shows that Cal/OSHA dispatches inspectors in just 5% of COVID complaint cases. Non-COVID complaints were more than twice as likely to result in on-site inspections — but that’s still far below the pre-pandemic share.

Two months after Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an investigation into California’s first rolling blackouts in nearly two decades — during which time residents were twice warned that blackouts could return — a group of key state agencies released their preliminary findings. The findings raise serious questions about the ability of California’s electrical grid to […]

Prop. 21 is one way to help to preserve the social and economic fabric of our state by keeping vulnerable people in their homes.

Prop. 21 would strike particularly hard on people like me, a small property owner who has just a few apartments that I rent.