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Category: Housing

An aerial view of Stockton Park Village, a 34-space mobile home park in unincorporated San Joaquin County on Jan. 27, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., 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 19, 2023

Mobile home parks are a last bastion of unsubsidized affordable housing in California. But when the health and safety of their residents is on the line, is the state doing enough to help?

Elbert Lee Jones Jr. outside the Close to Home St. Mary's Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters
Posted inHealth

The fastest-growing homeless population? Seniors

Avatar photo by Ana B. Ibarra February 10, 2023February 9, 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
Karen Bass speaks at her inauguration ceremony as Mayor of Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Dec. 11, 2022. Photo by Ted Soqui/SIPA USA via Reuters
Posted inHousing

Gimme Shelter: Mayor Karen Bass on homelessness and the California housing crisis

Richard Procter, Assistant Editor by Richard Procter January 12, 2023January 11, 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 inPodcasts

Why many unhoused Californians can’t access healthcare

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias December 15, 2022December 14, 2022
Physician's assistant Brett Feldman does a checkup on his patient Gary Dela Cruz on the side of the road near his encampment in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022. Feldman is the director and co-founder of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

More street medicine teams tackle the homeless health care crisis

Avatar photo by Kristen Hwang December 8, 2022December 8, 2022
Gov. Gavin Newsom explains why he withheld, then released, $1 billion for local governments to reduce California homelessness. The two sides met in Sacramento on Nov. 18, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters
Posted inHomeless

About-face: Why Newsom relented, released $1 billion despite lackluster local homeless plans

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias November 21, 2022November 21, 2022
New housing construction in a neighborhood in Elk Grove on Friday, July 8, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters
Posted inPodcasts

Gimme Shelter: Gavin Newsom promised 3.5 million homes. How’d he do?

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias November 3, 2022November 2, 2022
Residential single family homes under construction in the community of Valley Center on June 3, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters
Posted inHousing

Newsom campaigned on building 3.5 million homes. He hasn’t gotten even close

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias October 31, 2022October 29, 2022

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