Housing

The unusual move is alarming activists who worry they could be in the ordinance’s crosshairs.

Internal reports on deaths, disease, abuse and overdoses will give the public a rare glimpse inside taxpayer-funded shelters.

Private firefighters are a growing part of insurance companies’ strategy to head off wildfire-related damages. But Cal Fire says they can sometimes pose a safety risk.

LA fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

Lea esta historia en Español Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis hit her.  Surrounded by thousands of people that had just fled the Tubbs Fire that burned through Santa Rosa in 2017, Holmes realized many of these people would soon be added to the […]

Homelessness grew just 3% in California last year, compared to 18% nationwide.

Many California cities cracked down on homeless encampments after a Supreme Court ruling gave them the green light to arrest people.

California officials continued to fight with cities that don't want to build more housing and everyone struggled to find more money to pay for new housing.

Voters said no to expanded rent control, but tenants facing evictions will have more time to fight to keep their homes under a new California law.

Gov. Newsom launched an ambitious program that uses Medi-Cal to help Californians access housing, healthy food and more. Now, its fate is in the hands of President-Elect Trump.