Podcasts - CalMatters

Karen Bass speaks at her inauguration ceremony as Mayor of Los Angeles in Los Angeles on Dec. 11, 2022. Photo by Ted Soqui/SIPA USA via Reuters

Gimme Shelter: Mayor Karen Bass on homelessness and the California housing crisis

by Richard Procter January 12, 2023January 11, 2023

Liam Dillon and Ben Oreskes of the L.A. Times interview Mayor Karen Bass about homelessness and housing problems in California.

Physician's assistant Brett Feldman checks his patient, Carla Bolen’s, blood pressure while in her encampment at the Figueroa St. Viaduct above Highway 110 in Elysian Valley Park in Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022.Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters

Why many unhoused Californians can’t access healthcare

by Manuela Tobias December 15, 2022December 14, 2022

A mountain lion sits in a tree in the Santa Cruz mountains on Jan. 11, 2010. Photo courtesy of Bay Area Puma Project/Felidae Conservation Fund

California’s wildest housing story of 2022: Mountain lions versus duplexes

by Manuela Tobias December 2, 2022December 2, 2022

The Riverview Hall student housing complex at California State University in Sacramento — one of countless campuses struggling to meet the housing needs of California students. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters

How California’s housing crisis hurts college students

by Manuela Tobias November 17, 2022November 16, 2022

New housing construction in a neighborhood in Elk Grove on Friday, July 8, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters

Gimme Shelter: Gavin Newsom promised 3.5 million homes. How’d he do?

by Manuela Tobias November 3, 2022November 2, 2022

Gimme Shelter: How L.A. became the nation’s most housing-overcrowded place

by Manuela Tobias October 20, 2022October 19, 2022

Parking lot of a strip mall just off of Blackstone Avenue in central Fresno on Oct. 4, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

Gimme Shelter: How California’s new parking law could lower housing costs

by Manuela Tobias October 7, 2022October 7, 2022

Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2021. Photo by Teun Voeten, Sipa USA via Reuters

Gimme Shelter: Los Angeles mayoral candidates discuss homelessness plans

by Manuela Tobias September 22, 2022September 21, 2022

Abandoned businesses at a Fresno strip mall on Aug. 25, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

Gimme Shelter: What would California look like with housing on commercial strips?

by Manuela Tobias September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

Mitchell Friedeck stands outside the apartment complex where he and his three children live in Nipomo on Aug. 2, 2022. Photo by Julie Leopo for CalMatters

Gimme Shelter: The limits of emergency housing vouchers in California

by Manuela Tobias August 16, 2022August 16, 2022