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Matt Levin
Matt Levin is the data and housing dude for CALmatters. His work entails distilling complex policy topics into easily digestible charts and graphs, finding and writing original stories from data, yelling at his computer for something he did wrong in his code, and complaining about his rent on "Gimme Shelter", the housing podcast he co-hosts. Matt's award-winning housing and data reporting has been featured on Marketplace, NPR's Here & Now, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Matt is a former research associate for the Public Policy Institute of California, where he specialized in quantitative analysis of poverty and social policy. He has a Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from USC, but he'll always consider himself a Cal bear.
The latest by Matt Levin
Newsom wanted to go bold on housing. Have he and lawmakers delivered so far?
Big rent hikes are about to be illegal in California. Here’s what you should know
Podcast: The strange politics behind California’s rent cap bill
School bonds, breaking up with PG&E, trade war, Stephon Clark, and rabbis
Podcast: How housing vouchers work (or don’t) in California
Nearly 40 percent of young adult Californians live with their parents. Here’s everything to know about them
Podcast: Oregon tenants did this to win renter protection—is California next?
Podcast: Newsom wants to build 3.5 million homes—the very number a doomsday earthquake is forecast to damage
California’s new housing budget is a wrap. Here’s what you need to know.
Lawmakers—cutting big checks to combat the housing crisis—fight over who gets the money
The Latest From CalMatters
Podcast: The case for local control over housing
California families are hungry while a third of crops rot in fields
Bad teeth, college costs, voters’ dim view of homelessness, and presidential campaign money
Why CA didn’t overhaul student aid this year — but could soon
