Housing
You’ve just been named California’s homelessness czar — what’s your first move?
Options for addressing the state's most pressing social problem range, at best, from limited to imperfect. What would you choose?
Housing
WhatMatters
Newsom turns to Delta tunnel project, while a conservative icon dies
Election guide answers all your primary questions. Newsom restarts Delta water project. Motel vouchers help to house impoverished Fresno County families.
California Divide
‘Not the Golden State anymore’: Middle- and low-income people leaving California
Updated Jan. 10, 2020 Lee este artículo en español. In 2017, Susanna Cardenas-Lopez left her home in Salinas to visit her brother in Idaho. Three days into her trip, she called her husband and told him they needed to move there. Back in Salinas, Cardenas-Lopez and her husband were left out in the cold after their […]
WhatMatters
Housing and vaping return to the Capitol, with mixed results
Affordable housing plan gets chilly reception. Big cities tackle homelessness in different ways. Push to ban e-cigarettes resurfaces.
WhatMatters
Lawmakers get to it as tight — and politically awkward — deadlines loom
Deadlines loom for bills that stalled in 2019. Lawmaker wants to make housing a right. New worker-classification law takes effect.
Housing
Last year’s hottest housing fight just got resurrected — here’s what to know
Sen. Scott Wiener's SB 50 is back with more local control for the cities and suburbs that twice helped sink it. Will the third time be the charm?
Economy
New Year, new laws: Our video playlist will get you up-to-speed on 11 key 2020 laws in a minute
New California laws explained in 60 seconds. Ring in 2020 by learning about California's new do's and don'ts, and how they will affect us all.
WhatMatters
Loss for Obamacare nationally. Health care gains in California
Obamacare grows in California but suffers a defeat nationally. Kaiser mental health workers go on strike to protest lack of resources.
California Divide
Evictions in L.A. County: It’s become a humanitarian crisis, advocates say
A surprise eviction notice changed the lives of Juan Vera, his wife Maria and their three children forever. A representative of the apartment complex in Downey, where they had lived for more than 20 years, handed Maria an envelope. Maria doesn’t understand English, so Camila, her 14-year-old daughter, read it to her. “Did you see […]
Economy
New 2020 law #4: No more discriminating against renters who have housing vouchers
The latest in our video playlist of new California laws-in-a-minute: A ban on discrimination against renters with Section 8 vouchers.