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Category: Housing

Juliette Saunders, 53, and her fiancee, David Clarke, 60, sit in the living room of their recently sold home in Fullerton on Sept. 15, 2020. Saunders and Clarke are moving to Texas after being furloughed and struggling with unemployment during the pandemic. Photo by Tash Kimmell for CalMatters
Posted inEconomy

California Exodus: An online industry seizes COVID-19 to sell the Red State Dream

Lauren Hepler by Lauren Hepler September 24, 2020September 29, 2020
A multi-family home in Oakland on Sept. 2, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inPolitics

Democratic squabbling doomed California’s ‘Year of housing production.’ What will happen in 2021?

Avatar by Matt Levin September 11, 2020September 15, 2020
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks poses with her newborn baby on the assembly floor as Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris snaps a photo with her phone on Aug. 31, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inGimme Shelter

Podcast: Buffy Wicks on the eviction deal and the duplex debacle

Avatar by Matt Levin September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
California State House
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Here’s what you need to know about California’s eviction protections

by Laurence Du Sault September 4, 2020September 16, 2020
Person opening a door. In an emergency measure, California renters financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic will be protected from eviction until at least next February. But while tenants, landlord and banking groups all urged lawmakers to approve the evictions deal, the compromise’s specifics have left some parties severely disappointed. Image via iStock
Posted inHousing

Analysis: How renters, landlords and banks fared in the eviction compromise

Avatar by Matt Levin August 31, 2020September 3, 2020
The State Capitol in Sacramento, California, September 10, 2015. California Bills.
Posted inExplainers

The final say: Gov. Newsom has decided which of these 2020 bills will be California law

by CalMatters August 31, 2020October 2, 2020
Rodalfo Cortes, a tenant activist, protests in front of El Monte City Hall for a stricter eviction moratorium on March 29, 2020. Photo by Pierce Singgih, SCNG
Posted inHousing

Newsom, lawmakers strike pandemic eviction deal. Here’s what you need to know

Avatar by Matt Levin August 28, 2020September 3, 2020
Rep. Maxine Waters speaks with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco on June 1, 2019. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr
Posted inHousing

Podcast: Rep. Maxine Waters on eviction cliff, Newsom’s pandemic response

Avatar by Matt Levin August 21, 2020August 25, 2020
A tenant's rights group marches to the Los Angeles Mayor's mansion to demonstrate for renter's rights on May 1, 2020. With less than two weeks until the state court system ends its temporary moratorium on eviction cases, California faces a potential "wave" of evictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. USA Photo by Ted Soqui, SIPA USA via AP Images
Posted inHousing

The tough questions pushing California to an eviction cliff

Avatar by Matt Levin August 19, 2020August 27, 2020
Jamie Burson sits on the bed of her motel room in Farfield on August 4, 2020. Burson, who has been living between her car and motels since being evicted in April, says she feels unsafe at the motel and plans to move again later later today. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHousing

Exclusive: More than 1,600 Californians have been evicted during pandemic

AvatarNigel DuaraErica Yee by Matt Levin, Nigel Duara and Erica Yee August 11, 2020September 16, 2020

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