Housing

Never has an election cycle seen so much money funneled into California’s ballot measure campaigns — and there are still two weeks to go until the November election. Already, the campaigns for and against the 12 propositions on the November ballot have raised a staggering $670 million, according to a CalMatters analysis. When added to […]

A small group of Oakland tenants landed a deal that ensures their rents remain affordable.

California is in a housing crisis, but the state is not giving homeowners a way to finance the building more dwelling units on their property.

Prop. 21 is one way to help to preserve the social and economic fabric of our state by keeping vulnerable people in their homes.

Prop. 21 would strike particularly hard on people like me, a small property owner who has just a few apartments that I rent.

Until we abandon the racist attitudes in our housing policies, we will continue to see failures at the state level to pass meaningful reform.

It pains me to begin yet another newsletter with this line, but dangerous fire weather is expected to persist across much of Northern California through Saturday amid dry, powerful winds and elevated temperatures — likely adding fuel to the Glass Fire tearing through Wine Country. The blaze, which has already forced nearly 100,000 evacuations and […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, California established Project Roomkey, an ambitious initiative to house homeless people in hotels and motels to keep them safe from infections. The project leveraged federal dollars to pay for lodging. Knowing that the program only offered temporary housing, state and local officials have created what they say is a permanent […]

California's Proposition 19 refights old battles as it alters laws governing property tax assessments.

If the L.A. County Board of Supervisors designates unaccompanied women as an official subpopulation of the homeless, it will help change lives.