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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

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

by Matt Levin August 21, 2020August 25, 2020

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.

Members of the state Assembly met as a “Committee of the Whole on the State Budget” to question Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration about its plan to fill an estimated $54.3 budget deficit because of the coronavirus at the Capitol on May 26, 2020. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool

Lawmakers to pass budget sans gov’s OK

by Emily Hoeven June 15, 2020June 14, 2020

LA County is working with state, federal and local partners on Project Roomkey, an initiative to bring medically vulnerable people experiencing homelessness indoors during the COVID19 pandemic. Photo by Michael Owen Baker, County of Los Angeles via Flickr

Housing, homelessness funds mostly spared in proposed budget cuts

by Matt Levin May 16, 2020May 15, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom presents the 2020-21 state budget at a press conference at the California Capitol on January 10, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Here’s how a $54 billion deficit will hurt Californians

by Judy Lin May 7, 2020May 19, 2020

For Californians with consumers debt, bank and private collectors could garnish their coronavirus relief stimulus checks. Image via iStock

California could protect stimulus checks from debt collectors. Will Newsom act?

by Jackie Botts April 21, 2020April 23, 2020

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—MARCH 27, 2020—California Governor Gavin Newsom listens as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS Mercy that arrived into the Port of Los Angeles on Friday, March 27, 2020, to provide relief for Southland hospitals overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. (POOL PHOTOGRAPHS BY Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles will mirror New York as coronavirus surges, Newsom and Garcetti warn

by Judy Lin, Ben Christopher and Matt Levin March 27, 2020March 28, 2020