Housing

Housing

Is California’s high cost of housing cost scaring off job seekers?

California employers and job recruiters find it tough to lure out-of-state workers at a time when unemployment rates are falling and housing prices are rising.

By

David Wagner, KPCC

• May 24, 2018

Housing

What a $500,000 home looks like around California–and how it shapes where we move

The median price of a California single family home is now well over half a million dollars. That’s more than double what the average house costs in the rest of the U.S. Put a more nauseating way, you could buy two “average” non-California houses for the price of one California house. Can’t decide between the […]

By

Matt Levin

• May 17, 2018

Housing

Gimme Shelter podcast: Housing in the governor’s race

Housing has become a major issue in California’s race for governor. With the June primary less than a month away, Matt and Liam dive into each of the candidate’s plans to solve our affordability crisis. First, the Avocado of the Fortnight takes Matt to an extremely hot property in San Jose (2:50). Then a discussion […]

By

Matt Levin

• May 10, 2018

Economy

The only city in California to solve veteran homelessness is on a mission to go bigger

There are around 40,000 homeless veterans in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 11,000 of them live in California.

By

Amita Sharma, KPBS

• May 10, 2018

Elections

Video: What would the candidates for governor do about housing?

Watch our video and learn.

By

Byrhonda Lyons

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Ben Christopher

• April 30, 2018

Housing

Gimme Shelter Podcast: The SB 827 Post-Mortem

Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Google Play and Overcast. The most controversial and highly publicized state housing bill in recent memory has died. In an emergency version of the pod, Matt and Liam walk you through the reasons SB 827 failed to get through its first committee hearing, and where legislation like it could go […]

By

Matt Levin

• April 19, 2018

Housing

The state’s most controversial housing bill in years just died. Here’s what to take away from that.

The most controversial state housing bill in recent memory died with a pretty resounding thud—with YIMBYs seeing the defeat as yet another roadblock to building the new housing the state so desperately needs.

By

Matt Levin

• April 17, 2018

Economy

Having a job (or 2, or 3) doesn’t mean you can afford to live in California

Chad Bordes is 46 and has an MBA. But between high rents and student loan debt, he's struggling.

By

Amita Sharma, KPBS

• April 9, 2018

Housing

Gimme Shelter Podcast: The construction labor shortage

Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Google Play and Overcast. Matt and Liam delve into one aspect of California’s housing crisis that doesn’t receive much attention: the shortage of construction labor to build the houses the state so desperately needs. An Avocado of the Fortnight (2:15) first takes us to Orange County, where the question of […]

By

Matt Levin

• April 5, 2018

Housing

Data dig: Big investment firms have stopped gobbling up California homes

California's economic recovery and a lack of new housing construction has sent housing prices skyrocketing so high that It’s now too expensive for institutional investors to buy lots of California homes.

By

Matt Levin

• April 4, 2018