Housing

On this week's Gimme Shelter, CALmatters' podcast on California's housing crisis, data reporter Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon talk about Liam's investigation into the unintended consequences of that 1986 initiative.

Advocates today submitted signatures to qualify a 2020 ballot initiative that would generate tens of billions of dollars for local and state governments by undoing part of California's landmark Prop. 13.

California still has the nation’s highest poverty rate when you take into account the state’s high cost of living. But the number of people living in poverty here has dropped since the beginning of the decade.

Would it be a merciful end to the "moving penalty" or a giveaway to rich homeowners and real estate agents? Proposition 5, which California voters will decide on this November, would allow homeowners age 55 and up to receive a major break on their property taxes when they move homes.

Federal data shows first-time buyers in California increasingly rely on family for help.

California's birth rate has dipped below the national average—and experts say the state's soaring housing costs are crimping its fertility.

Inaccurate cost of attendance estimates can throw off students’ budgeting and their financial aid packages.

Seattle has a lot in common with San Francisco. A thriving economy increasingly dominated by major technology companies. A deep blue electorate with a strong environmental ethos. And of course, a soaring cost of living that has made living in either city a prohibitively expensive proposition for many long-time residents. But Seattle has responded to its housing crisis much differently than its Bay Area counterpart: Seattle has built a lot more homes.

California's skyrocketing housing costs have created a harsh new reality for refugees on the ground, many of whom are going to extraordinary lengths just to afford rent.

The California Environmental Quality Control Act is the focus of heated debate, with environmentalists saying it's a success but critics saying it's been weaponized to impede housing.