Housing Crisis

With the passage of Friday's suspense file deadline, more bills were culled from lawmakers' 2019 wish list, or altered. Among them:  a push to make retail receipts electronic, an effort to encourage pets in homeless shelters and stricter rules for servicers of student loans.  

Gig companies threaten to take worker fight to voters. Democratic lawmakers eye 2020 ballot measures. Newsom rethinks air district board appointment.

Gig workers battle over future of work. Koch brothers machine takes on Kamala Harris donor-disclosure rule. Lawmakers try to remedy Section 8 shortage.

The biggest federal housing program for low-income renters is failing to help many Californians because there aren’t enough landlords who accept Section 8 vouchers for rent. State lawmakers are considering two solutions, a carrot and a stick.

Over the last year, the city has experimented with sending rental checks to nearly two dozen seniors and now wants to expand the program exponentially.

A data dive explores who they are, where they are and why they still live at home —and yes, how they manage to have sex.

It’s time to fix this thing.
 The lack of affordable housing is a drag on the economy and the reason California has America’s worst poverty rate. It’s driving some workers out of state and some into homelessness. For young professionals, it’s just depressing. In this live version of our Gimme Shelter podcast co-hosts Matt Levin of CalMatters […]

Julieta Aquino and her daughter are among a group of 11 low-income families who recently became homeowners in a new Fremont housing development — one they helped build over the past two years as participants in a local Habitat for Humanity project. Each family was required to put in 500 hours of so-called sweat equity, pounding nails and pouring concrete on the construction site.

Experts say neighborhoods that emerged as havens for gay Californians are now feeling the effects of rising home prices, shifting cultural norms and new ways of connecting.

What most Americans are just beginning to learn about California’s junior senator, we’ve already seen here for decades.  Here are eight ways that California shaped Kamala Harris and that Harris has shaped California.