California lawmakers passed a $214.8 billion budget deal last week and are still working on trailer bills, which can be passed after the main budget bill is passed. The budget bill will go into effect on July 1, the start of the fiscal year, and will outline the state’s spending plan until next year’s budget. […]

It’s beginning to sounds like a common thing in California that many people are complaining about, housing is too expensive. Many people have moved within California from one city to another in the hopes of seeking lower housing prices and some people have even fled the state to neighboring states such as Nevada. However, the […]

It turns out that San Jose has made slow progress in reaching its goal of adding 10,000 affordable homes by 2022. According to a new report from the city’s housing department, just 64 units had been completed by the end of the 2017-18 fiscal year, which was in June. The report also claims that another […]

In late April the San Diego City Council unanimously approved legislation to sharply decrease fees to build granny flats, which are often nearly equal to construction costs. The objective is to help with the severe local shortage of affordable housing by increasing construction of more granny flats. Granny flats are additional housing units on an […]

The economy in the Bay Area is booming, yet for people under the age of 40 and for renters, there is a high chance that they don’t travel or go out to eat much, and they probably have to cut back on groceries. Where is most of their money going to? According to a five-county […]

Carolyn Cherry’s commute seems extreme, but it’s a sacrifice she continues to make so that her children have a home to live in. Carolyn, who is 60 years old and near retirement, commutes about six hours a day from her home in Hemet, to her job in Downtown Los Angeles as a clerical worker, and […]

Last month, Philip Alston, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, stated at a news conference in Washington D.C., among other things, that Los Angeles is lagging behind other cities in attacking homelessness. The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Council to examine and report back […]

According to the Public Policy Institute of California’s (PPIC) annual survey of attitudes on the state’s public higher education systems, California’s public colleges and universities don’t do enough to help students find affordable places to live. Of the 1,703 residents who were surveyed, 85 percent felt that the biggest problem for higher education in the […]

California is home to 12 percent of the U.S. population and, unfortunately, 22 percent of its homeless people. Housing experts believe that the housing problem started back to the 1970s, when backlash began to develop, most notably in coastal communities, from neighbors who opposed new housing in their neighborhoods. According to state housing officials, California […]

According to a report by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, there were 776 deaths between 2002 and 2016 who the coroner’s office determined the people were homeless, which translates to about one homeless person’s death a week for the past 15 years. Last year, there were about 71 homeless people that died in […]