Buffy Wicks

Housing

Newsom’s top housing adviser says ‘start with yes’

With a key legislative deadline next week, Newsom's housing adviser speaks about the governor's priorities on affordable housing. The big takeaway: California is millions of housing units short, and cities hold the key.

By

Manuela Tobias

• May 27, 2021

Los defensores quieren que los legisladores de California hagan más en términos de regular las plataformas de redes sociales. Imagen a través de iStock

CalMatters en Español

Regulaciones de redes sociales de California: es difícil de aceptar en 2021

Después de ser pionera en la protección de la privacidad de los datos del consumidor, la Legislatura de California ha frenado las propuestas para regular aún más las empresas de redes sociales.

By

Zayna Syed

• May 27, 2021

Jason Elliott, asesor del gobernador Gavin Newsom sobre vivienda y personas sin hogar, dijo mientras el estado puede construir viviendas para personas sin hogar y los más pobres, el sector privado es esencial para aliviar la escasez de viviendas en todo el estado. Foto de Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

CalMatters en Español

El principal asesor de vivienda de Newsom dice ‘comencemos con sí’

Con una fecha límite legislativa clave la próxima semana, el asesor de vivienda de Newsom habla sobre las prioridades del gobernador sobre viviendas asequibles. La gran conclusión: California necesita millones de unidades de vivienda, y las ciudades tienen la clave.

By

Manuela Tobias

• May 27, 2021

A multi-family home in Oakland on Sept. 2, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Politics

Democratic squabbling doomed California’s ‘Year of housing production.’ What will happen in 2021?

Despite entering 2020 with the governor and many legislators pushing for an increase in housing production, none of the bills put forth went into effect. The coronavirus pandemic has also put prospects for such bills in 2021 in doubt.

By

Matt Levin

• September 11, 2020

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks poses with her newborn baby on the assembly floor as Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris snaps a photo with her phone on Aug. 31, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Housing

Podcast: Buffy Wicks on the eviction deal and the duplex debacle

On this episode of "Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast", CalMatters' Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon interview Wicks on the bizarre duplex debacle, the state's emergency eviction protections, and her newfound fame.

By

Matt Levin

• September 8, 2020

WhatMatters

Newsom defends progress on homelessness

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, September 3. ‘We’re just getting started’ Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that California is making an “unprecedented” effort to address homelessness, two days after lawmakers failed to pass a bill to massively increase housing production — which Newsom said in his February State of the State speech was “the only […]

By

Emily Hoeven

• September 3, 2020

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks walks across the floor during a vote carrying her 1-month-old baby on Aug. 31, 2020. Wicks was not permitted to vote remotely despite having a newborn. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Politics

Nail-biter for family leave bill reveals tough realities for working moms

Why did a lawmaker need to bring her newborn to the COVID-exposed state Capitol to do her job? To help pass a new family leave law.

By

Laurel Rosenhall

• September 2, 2020

Coronavirus

‘Hella connected’: How California lawmakers are governing from home

The nation's most populous state has become a case study in governing remotely as California legislators handle a shutdown, a pandemic and tanking economy.

By

Laurel Rosenhall

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CalMatters Staff

• April 6, 2020

Alice Crisci gave birth to her son Dante years after paying out-of-pocket to preserve her fertility, which was jeopardized by her cancer treatment. Photo by Iris Schneider for CalMatters

Health

California at odds over whether to make insurers cover infertility treatments

The Legislature again has refused to require health insurers to more broadly cover infertility treatment. But an advancing bill would insist that insurers cover the cost of preserving fertility for cancer patients whose treatment endangers their ability to have children.

By

Elizabeth Aguilera

• September 3, 2019

Justice

As gun control efforts advance in California Capitol, opponents bank on the courts

While Democrats push a new round of gun control bills, California gun rights advocates are fighting back in a more hospitable venue: the federal judiciary.

By

Ben Christopher

• August 21, 2019