CalMatters Staff

Housing

Watch: A homelessness and housing town hall

California’s affordable housing shortage has become a full-blown crisis and the numbers are staggering. Meanwhile, the state’s growing homeless population is straining public health systems. CalMatters, The Milken Institute and The Los Angeles Times have teamed up to organize a town hall that examines the many factors leading to explosive rates of homelessness, and the […]

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CalMatters Staff

• November 5, 2019

Events

Learning to Live with Fire

Things have to change.  Wildfires, blackouts, angry residents and a furious governor. Californians are grappling with a new and very dangerous “normal” — where there are more wildfires than before and more uncertainty about how the government, utilities and residents deal with them. For many, life can’t continue as it used to. Some are buying […]

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CalMatters Staff

• October 22, 2019

California Wildfires

Are power outages the new normal? A chat about PG&E, California fires and the future of electricity

CalMatters' reporters Judy Lin, Julie Cart and Dan Morain discuss California's recent blackout and what that means for the future of fires, utilities and politics.

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CalMatters Staff

• October 14, 2019

Housing

Watch: Panel on California’s housing crisis

Gimme Shelter co-hosts Matt Levin and Liam Dillon get answers from leaders in government, industry and philanthropy on the California housing crisis.

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CalMatters Staff

• September 17, 2019

Education

Disaster Days School Closure Database

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CalMatters Staff

• September 16, 2019

Explainers

Remakes and fresh takes: See whether Gov. Newsom OK’d or vetoed key bills of 2019

In the last days of California's 2019 legislative session, hundreds of bills landed on the governor's desk. We're tracking the most consequential.

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CalMatters Staff

• September 11, 2019

Events

We Solve the California Housing Crisis

It’s time to fix this thing.  The lack of affordable housing is a drag on the economy and the reason California has America’s worst poverty rate. It’s driving some workers out of state and some into homelessness. For young professionals, it’s just depressing. In this live version of our Gimme Shelter podcast co-hosts Matt Levin of CalMatters […]

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CalMatters Staff

• August 22, 2019

Newsletters

Weekly CALmatters 06/21/2019

Highlighting all of CALmatters' work over the past week

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CalMatters Staff

• June 21, 2019

Newsletters

Weekly CALmatters 06/14/2019

Highlighting all of CALmatters' work over the past week