By: Rene Cristian September 12, 2019 — PERSPECTIVE — California has a shocking 18.2 poverty rate — the second highest in the nation, according to a recent article in the Sacramento Bee. The statewide housing affordability crisis, which has…
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By: Matt Levin September 11, 2019 — IN SUMMARY A bill to limit rent increases is not conventional rent control. But it’s a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has set housing issues as…
By: Riordan Frost September 11, 2019 — The country is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. As our recent State of the Nation’s Housing report points out, cost burdens remain near record highs for low-income households,…
By: Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks September 10, 2019 — For nearly a year, city and county officials across the West have lamented a federal appeals court’s ruling last September barring municipalities from prosecuting homeless people for sleeping on the…
By: Scott Greenstone September 9, 2019 — BOISE, Idaho — Mark Hennessy and Susan Pappas roll up their sleeping bags and hide them in the bushes. It’s a dusty summer morning along the Boise River…
By: Kaiser Permanente August 29, 2019 — What will it take to solve the homelessness crisis? That was a central question August 14, 2019, at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, during a sold-out panel discussion, the…
By: Tim Houchen September 5, 2019 — I might file this article under, ” What I did on summer vacation,” because a trip to Portland, Oregon to visit family in July also provided me with…
By: Tim Houchen September 3, 2019 — The discussion of a homeless “right to shelter” has been a hot topic ever since an op-ed written in July by Sacramento mayor, Darrell Steinberg was published in…
By: Daniel Langhorne August 29, 2019 — The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.7 million contract extension through June 2020 with Midnight Mission to operate an emergency homeless shelter in the…
By: Kelsi Maree Borland August 29, 2019 — Surpassing Los Angeles, Orange County now has the highest apartment asking rents in Southern California. According to new research from NAI Capital, average apartment rents in Orange County…
The Fairview Developmental Center was one of three state-owned properties in Orange County that were identified on an interactive map released by the state on Wed. as potential sites for development of affordable housing. Aug….
By: Matt Levin August 25, 2019 — It’s a Saturday night at Patsy’s Irish Pub in Mission Viejo, a wealthy suburb in south Orange County. Patsy’s looks like a lot of other California bars in…
By: Manuela Tobias August 26, 2019 — Michael Martinez moved four times in July. When BNSF Railway contractors showed up at his camp along the railroad tracks near downtown Fresno, he was given 30 minutes…
By: Darrell Steinberg and Mark Riddley-Thomas August 25, 2019 — There are two ways to tackle California’s greatest public safety, public health and humanitarian crisis: homelessness. One way is to marshal resources, build programs, replicate…
By: Jared Brey August 26, 2019 — Tenant advocates in California faced a setback last year with the failure of Proposition 10, a state ballot measure that would have allowed cities to expand rent-control policies to more…