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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
Rent control firebrand has no regrets
Amid the housing NIMBYs and YIMBYs, meet PIMBYs—“Parents in my Backyard”
For aging California, is the future Florida?
State rent-gouging bill advances, but still no action on tighter rent control
California’s hottest housing bill moves ahead—with a break for smaller counties
Will rent control and other tenant bills get through the Capitol this time?
Lawmakers and landlords: More than a quarter of California legislators are both
Are in-law units the secret solution to the state’s housing shortage?
A state lawmaker borrowed nearly a half-million dollars to buy a home. You might have voted for her lender.
San Diego’s mayor explains why he became a “YIMBY”
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California legislators must stop the attorney general from rigging ballot initiative descriptions
