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Garbage piles at Stockton Park Village in Stockton on Nov. 22, 2022. Photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters.

Mobile home parks offer refuge from California’s housing squeeze. Who’s watching them?

by Manuela Tobias March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

Mobile home parks are a last bastion of unsubsidized affordable housing in California. But when the health and safety of their residents is on the line, is the state doing enough to help?

Downtown Stockton on Dec. 1, 2017. Photo by Dai Sugano, Bay Area News Group

School district audit deals another blow to Stockton’s civic reputation

by Dan Walters February 21, 2023February 17, 2023

Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters; iStock

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More than 12,000 Californians are getting cash from guaranteed income experiments

by Jeanne Kuang February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Veronica Vieyra, San Jose State University Class of 2021 graduate poses for a photograph on campus in San Jose on Saturday, July 3, 2021. Vieyra is one of 72 foster youth to receive payments of $1,000 a month in Santa Clara county’s first guaranteed basic income pilot program. Photo by Anda Chu, Bay Area News Group

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Universal basic income? California moves to be first state to fund pilot efforts

by Jesse Bedayn July 16, 2021July 21, 2021

A Fresno-area politician wants California to prioritize struggling San Joaquin Valley farmworkers in a proposed pilot program that would put cash in the hands of some the state’s impoverished residents. Photo by Juan Esparza Loera

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Universal basic income for farmworkers? Some leaders are pushing for it

by Melissa Montalvo June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

New priorities needed for California’s next drought

by Guest Commentary March 25, 2021March 24, 2021

Diners are seen through the window at Etcetera in San Francisco on March 7, 2021. Restaurants were permitted to re-open for indoor dining starting last week. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

California on verge of massive COVID changes

by Emily Hoeven March 12, 2021March 12, 2021

Patients enter Levi’s Stadium to receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 9 2021 in Santa Clara. The 49ers arena opened on Tuesday as a vaccine distribution site for Santa Clara County residents 65 and older and is expected to inoculate up to 15,000 people per day once supplies become available. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

California hurtles into fastest reopening yet

by Emily Hoeven March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

California Capitol, home of the Assembly and Senate. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Three mayors and three defeats

by Dan Walters December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs speaks during a press conference by Big City Mayors, a coalition of mayors from California’s 13 largest cities focused on finding solutions to homelessness, at the California Capitol on March 9, 2020. Tubbs has launched a universal basic income initiative, Mayors for Guaranteed Income, following the success of a similar program in Stockton. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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Coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on Stockton’s guaranteed income experiment

by Laurence Du Sault July 26, 2020September 16, 2020