Housing

Virus hot spot Imperial County went forward with eviction proceedings barred by the state judicial system.

Nearly 275,000 Black Californians have left high-cost cities, often for safer, suburban enclaves. Familiar obstacles follow.

Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Pod · Why the housing market isn’t tanking, with Zillow’s Skylar Olsen Please subscribe to the Gimme Shelter podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Google Play, Spotify or Overcast. It’s the worst economy since the Great Depression. Nearly 1 in every 6 California workers is out of a job, and those lucky […]

The State Building and Construction Trades Council placed a Facebook advertisement which members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus objected to. The union retracted the ad and issued an apology, but the incident illustrates the fraught tensions at play in state housing discussions.

Data show that the state's housing crisis is worse for black communities, with decades of systemic racism having led to significant barriers to building and retaining wealth.

On this episode of "Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast," CalMatters' Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon interview Andre Perry, researcher at the Brookings Institute, on how black property is devalued throughout the country and in California.

The pandemic has layered a health crisis on top of a housing crisis on top of a class divide. A clear pattern has emerged as the coronavirus spares some California neighborhoods and strikes others: The virus takes a heavier toll in neighborhoods where people pack into overcrowded homes, according to a CalMatters analysis of neighborhood-level […]

Until the pandemic struck, every day for the last 10 years, Isidoro Flores Contreras stood at the edge of the Sand City Costco parking lot, just a few feet from a set of McDonald’s arches, selling $15 flower bouquets.  No matter the weather, he slowly walked back and forth along the sidewalk, a hitch in […]

When coronavirus began spreading in California, public health officials told people who fell ill to isolate themselves in their homes for two weeks. But many California families simply can’t do that. Forced by the high cost of living, parents squeeze into rooms with their children, cousins sleep on couches, grandparents convert living rooms into bedrooms […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to go on a hotel shopping spree to help California's homeless. Will it work?