Extremely high housing costs are a fact of life for Californians, even driving some to move out of state. We examine why it costs so much to live here and what the state could do to make housing more affordable.
Fremont reverses course, jettisoning a move that legal experts said could have been used to punished people for "aiding and abetting" homeless encampments.
It’s been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed how cities in California and beyond can respond to homeless encampments, allowing them to clear camps and arrest people for sleeping outside — even when there’s nowhere else to sleep. The July ruling in the case Grants Pass v. Johnson upended six years of […]
Lea esta historia en Español Wickey Twohands woke up early on the day he was scheduled to go on trial for sleeping outside. First, he dropped off all his possessions — a bedroll, blankets, clothes and some food — at a friend’s house for safekeeping. Then the 77-year-old caught a bus to the courthouse in […]
A passel of recent California laws were supposed to supercharge the construction of desperately needed housing. According to YIMBY Law, they haven’t even come close.