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. […]

California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, unveiled his first California budget proposal last month and it’s an $8 billion increase over Jerry Brown’s last budget. Governor Newsom plans on pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into housing and homelessness. These two issues were a major part of his campaign last year that he promised he would […]

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 […]

It appears that there are several people throughout the state that are working while homeless. A 2017 survey of the homeless population in San Francisco found that 13 percent of the 7,499 homeless people reported having part or full-time employment. In San Diego this year, an estimated 10 percent of the 4,990 people living in […]

Some great news from San Bernardino County, there has now been at least 1,000 military veterans that have been placed in permanent housing.  The 1,000th veteran was a 52-year-old Marine Corps veteran named Quintin Sherard. In San Bernardino, there is an estimated 646 homeless people, and Sherard was one of them. Sherard is a former […]

Here is a great story by the Sacramento Bee about a woman that was homeless and living on the streets for 30 years and how she was able to eventually find housing. Katherine Ann Wahl spent decades panhandling at busy intersections around Sacramento’s central city. She would collect money for food and cigarettes by day […]

According to an analysis conducted by the Economic Roundtable, housing alone will not solve Los Angeles County’s homelessness problem. The report recommends that a more strategic effort aimed at early intervention is needed to prevent people from becoming homeless or remaining homeless. The report looks at 26 sets of data to better understand the characteristics […]

The California Energy Commission unanimously voted yesterday to require that new homes in the state have solar panels on their roofs. The mandate takes effect in 2020 and it will officially make California the first state in the nation to require new homes to have solar panels on their roofs. Under the mandate, builders who […]

According to a report, known as the Housing Gaps Analysis, by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles County’s homeless population is increasing faster than the supply of new housing. This increase comes even with the addition of thousands of beds in the last two years and millions of dollars beginning to flow in […]