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Author Archives: Manuela Tobias

Manuela is our former Housing Reporter whose stories focused on the political dynamics and economic and racial inequities that contribute to the housing crisis in California and its potential solutions. Manuela previously covered income inequality and survival at The Fresno Bee for the California Divide. She is a former staff writer for PolitiFact and has interned at Politico Magazine, New York Magazine and The New Yorker. Originally from Buenos Aires, she has lived in Latin America, Europe and across the United States. She has a B.A. in comparative literature from Georgetown University.

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Empty mobile home lots in Stockton on Jan. 27, 2023.
Posted inHousing

Problems at your mobile home park? Here’s how to alert California officials

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias May 18, 2023May 18, 2023

California officials depend largely on residents filing complaints to find out about health and safety problems at mobile home parks. Here’s how to file a complaint.

Posted inCalMatters en Español

Un programa para reparar parques de casas móviles en California solo aprobó 1 solicitud en 10 años. ¿Funcionará una renovación?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias March 27, 2023March 27, 2023
A dirt road in the Shady Lane Estates mobile home park in unincorporated Thermal, a community within the Coachella Valley in Riverside County on March 23, 2023. Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters
Posted inHousing

A California program to fix mobile home parks approved 1 application in 10 years. Will a rebrand work?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias March 27, 2023March 27, 2023
CalMatters housing reporter Manuela Tobias (left) interviews Marina Salinas at her residency at the Stockton City Hotel in Stockton on Nov. 22, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters
Posted inHousing

What the decay of one mobile home park means for affordable housing in California

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias March 23, 2023March 22, 2023
Garbage piles at Stockton Park Village in Stockton on Nov. 22, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters.
Posted inHousing

Mobile home parks offer refuge from California’s housing squeeze. Who’s watching them?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias March 20, 2023March 20, 2023
Posted inCalMatters en Español

Los parques de casas móviles son un refugio contra la escasez de viviendas en California. ¿Pero quién los supervisa?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias March 20, 2023March 20, 2023
Homes and residential buildings in San Francisco on March 4, 2020. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo
Posted inHousing

Gimme Shelter: Can an obscure law unleash a lot more housing in California?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias February 9, 2023February 9, 2023
A faded American flag hangs outside of a pitched tent on the Santa Ana River trail as an unhoused person walks into the tent in Anaheim on Jan. 22, 2018. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP Photo
Posted inHousing

Gimme Shelter: CARE Courts coming to California in 2023

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias January 27, 2023January 26, 2023
Physician's assistant Brett Feldman checks his patient, Carla Bolen’s, blood pressure while in her encampment at the Figueroa St. Viaduct above Highway 110 in Elysian Valley Park in Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022.Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters
Posted inHousing

Why many unhoused Californians can’t access healthcare

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias December 15, 2022December 14, 2022
A mountain lion sits in a tree in the Santa Cruz mountains on Jan. 11, 2010. Photo courtesy of Bay Area Puma Project/Felidae Conservation Fund
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La historia sobre vivienda más salvaje de California en 2022: los leones de montaña versus los dúplex

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias December 2, 2022December 2, 2022

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