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Higher minimum wages impact nonprofits that employ developmentally disabled workers. State resets trash goals. Tenants rights bills fizzle.

Updated May 30, 2019  California tenants just scored a rare victory in the state Capitol—emphasis on the rare. A high-profile bill passed by the state Assembly would impose a “rent-gouging cap” on annual rent increases for the vast majority of renters. If approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, it would […]

Becerra targets Catholic dioceses, legislation would expand sex abuse victims' right to sue, assemblyman stands trial on child abuse charges

Michael Weinstein, rent-control advocate and president of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, had a rough time in Sacramento last week.

A political partnership goes to shreds, Commission on Judicial Performance receives a harsh judgment, rent control efforts suffer another blow

A bill aimed at protecting California tenants from “egregious” rent hikes cleared a key hurdle in the state Legislature today, less than 24 hours after pro-tenant groups learned their latest try to expand tighter rent controls throughout California is flailing in the Capitol.

Soda taxes stall. Gun taxes survive. A vote on the police solution to police shootings. A rent control repeat. A bill to curb plastic. California gets old.

Legislature looks to protect student borrowers, electric vehicle sales continue to grow, California leads nation in syphilis cases

Please subscribe to the Gimme Shelter podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Google Play, Spotify or Overcast.  Ready for another fight over rent control? Six months after a statewide initiative that could have expanded rent control across California was rejected overwhelmingly at the polls, a group of progressive state lawmakers are back with a suite of pro-tenant legislation […]

A CALmatters analysis reveals that at least 30 lawmakers—more than a quarter of the California Legislature— own at least one property that generates rental income.