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A protester holds up a sign during a rent strike demonstration in Los Angeles on April 21, 2020. Photo by Ringo Chiu, ZUMA Wire via Alamy Live News

California’s rent strike: Who pays and how it works

by Nigel Duara September 25, 2020September 25, 2020

Once a fringe tactic, rent strikes are gaining political attention around the state as renters seek payment relief amid the coronavirus recession.

Juliette Saunders, 53, and her fiancee, David Clarke, 60, sit in the living room of their recently sold home in Fullerton on Sept. 15, 2020. Saunders and Clarke are moving to Texas after being furloughed and struggling with unemployment during the pandemic. Photo by Tash Kimmell for CalMatters

California Exodus: An online industry seizes COVID-19 to sell the Red State Dream

by Lauren Hepler September 24, 2020September 25, 2020

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

by Matt Levin July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom wears a protective mask on his face while speaking to reporters at Miss Ollie’s restaurant during the coronavirus outbreak in Oakland on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo/Pool

Newsom: All Californians must wear masks

by Emily Hoeven June 19, 2020June 24, 2020

The neighborhoods where COVID collides with overcrowded homes

by Jackie Botts and Lo Bénichou June 12, 2020June 26, 2020

A vacant home is photographed at 1818 Adeline Street on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. Photo by Aric Crabb, Bay Area News Group

Could vacancy fines ease California’s housing crisis? Vancouver tries it, with mixed results

by Jakob Lazzaro March 13, 2020March 12, 2020

Evan Low’s fundraising + The shifting 9th Circuit’s abortion ruling + Hard living in Salinas

by Dan Morain February 25, 2020February 25, 2020

Podcast: Housing crisis? Presidential candidates have a plan for that

by Jakob Lazzaro February 18, 2020February 18, 2020

A BART train runs through a neighborhood of single-family homes in Albany. California lawmakers again rejected a bill that would have led to denser development along public transit routes. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

California’s most controversial homebuilding bill just died. What will Newsom do now?

by Matt Levin January 30, 2020January 31, 2020

Newsom: PG&E’s bankruptcy is a ‘godsend’ + Housing bill stalls again

by Dan Morain January 30, 2020January 30, 2020