California Divide

State housing planners continue to allocate tens of thousands of low-income units in Riverside County despite a lack of suitable land and willing developers. The broken zoning process is a lose-lose for state and local governments alike.

Food sales, money pools and fundraising campaigns have been a lifesaver for many families affected by the pandemic.

As Congress debates President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, California legislators have approved $600 one-time stimulus payments to millions of struggling Californians and extra help for undocumented workers left out of federal relief. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he'll sign it into law.

Even with a statewide eviction moratorium and government rental relief, some renters have accumulated large debts with no way out.

Americans spent more on homes and reduced more in credit card debt than nearly ever before, but California experts say traditional indicators have failed to capture the pandemic's true toll, warning of a much more complicated — and unequal — debt story.

While warehouses have become ubiquitous in the Inland Empire, recent proposals call for rezoning residential land for industrial use, leaving the largely minority and low-income residents who live there with few choices.

California’s elected officials have backed a $15-an-hour minimum wage by 2023 but a new report says only a few of them pay their legislative interns.