Housing

Rep. Maxine Waters speaks with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco on June 1, 2019. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Housing

Podcast: Rep. Maxine Waters on eviction cliff, Newsom’s pandemic response

On this episode of "Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast", CalMatters' Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon interview Rep. Maxine Waters.

By

Matt Levin

• August 21, 2020

A tenant's rights group marches to the Los Angeles Mayor's mansion to demonstrate for renter's rights on May 1, 2020. With less than two weeks until the state court system ends its temporary moratorium on eviction cases, California faces a potential "wave" of evictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. USA Photo by Ted Soqui, SIPA USA via AP Images

Housing

The tough questions pushing California to an eviction cliff

The governor, lawmakers and interest groups confront thorny questions in mad dash to prevent “eviction wave.”

By

Matt Levin

• August 19, 2020

Jamie Burson sits on the bed of her motel room in Farfield on August 4, 2020. Burson, who has been living between her car and motels since being evicted in April, says she feels unsafe at the motel and plans to move again later later today. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Housing

Exclusive: More than 1,600 Californians have been evicted during pandemic

A loophole in the state eviction moratorium forces hundreds from their homes after shelter-in-place orders. Without clear state orders, sheriff departments decide whether to evict.

By

Matt Levin

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Nigel Duara

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Erica Yee

• August 11, 2020

The Trump administration calls the agreement with carmakers "inconsistent with federal law.” Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Housing

Podcast: Trump and California’s suburbs

On this episode of "Gimme Shelter" CalMatters' Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon discuss President Trump's ominous tweets about low-income housing and the suburbs.

By

Matt Levin

• July 29, 2020

Homes in Bombay Beach, a community along at the Salton Sea in Imperial County. Photo by Sasha Abramsky, Capital & Main

Housing

Exclusive: California county with highest COVID death rate violated court rules for evictions

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

By

Matt Levin

• July 29, 2020

Sharie Wilson in the kitchen of her remodeled Elk Grove home on June 22, 2020. Wilson says that when the bought the home it was the ‘worst on the block’ but was able to turn it into a space that she’s proud of. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Economy

The hidden toll of California’s Black exodus

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

By

Lauren Hepler

• July 15, 2020

Housing

Podcast: Why California’s housing market isn’t tanking

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 […]

By

Matt Levin

• July 6, 2020

Housing

Powerful union apologizes, withdraws ad after accusations of anti-Semitism

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.

By

Matt Levin

• June 30, 2020

Housing

Black Californians’ housing crisis, by the numbers

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.

By

Matt Levin

• June 19, 2020

Housing

Podcast: How homes in black neighborhoods are devalued in California

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.

By

Matt Levin

• June 18, 2020