Angela Hart

Angela Hart covers health care politics and policy in California and the West for Kaiser Health News, with a focus on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, government accountability, and political influence. She has been reporting on health care for more than seven years and has won awards for her work on homelessness, public health, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, she worked for Politico, The Sacramento Bee and the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. She was a 2018 Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow and a 2015 California Fellow. She is a Wisconsin native and a military veteran and holds a master’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Articles

(From right) Emmanuel Valdovinos, 9, his brother Aaron, 10, mother Juana Paniagua and sister Maritere, 5, sit together at their new apartment in Santa Rosa on Sunday, August 2, 2015.

Environment & Climate

Children & Families

Community & Public Health

Stuck in squalor: Unsafe Santa Rosa apartments and lapse by city fuel tenants' lawsuit (Part 2)

In California's Sonoma County, some families face living conditions that include high levels of dangerous mold and other asthma triggers. When landlords don't act, problems can fester for years, leading to a host of health problems.

Environmental Health

Housing and Homeslessness

Karla Orozco talks with her children, Jobani, 12, left, Janet, 15, and Jacquline Sanchez, 7 as they eat breakfast Jan. 19, 2015 in their apartment at the Bennett Valley Townhomes complex. Families living in the ten-unit Hoen Avenue apartment complex were plagued by rodent and cockroach infestations, dangerous levels of mold, and other substandard conditions. The city later last January forced residents to vacate the complex, Orozco and her family have moved to another apartment in Santa Rosa.

Environment & Climate

Community & Public Health

Stuck in squalor: Hundreds of Sonoma County renters endure poor living conditions (Part 1)

In California's Sonoma County, an alarming number of tenants live in housing so run down that it poses a risk to their health and safety. For Karla Orozco's family, the hazards included mold, rats and cockroaches, a broken heater, and sewage backups.

Environmental Health

Housing and Homeslessness

Workers gut the Bennett Valley Townhomes on Hoen Avenue in Santa Rosa in August 2015 after residents were forced to vacate because of high levels of mold, rodent and cockroach infestations and other substandard housing problems.

Environment & Climate

Children & Families

Community & Public Health

Health at risk for Sonoma County tenants in poor living conditions

The effect of squalid housing on people’s health is difficult to determine in California's Sonoma County, since there is no study, stockpile of data or government agency that tracks illness in connection with living environments.

Environmental Health

Housing and Homeslessness

Nine families forced to leave their Santa Rosa apartment building after health and safety inspectors discovered dangerously high levels of mold throughout the complex.

Substandard housing in Sonoma County leads to poor health outcomes

According to dozens of interviews with housing rights lawyers, code enforcement officials and building inspectors, substandard housing conditions are rampant in Sonoma County's poorest neighborhoods. And landlords face little consequences for letting their properties fall into disrepair.

Environmental Health

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Angela Hart

Articles

Stuck in squalor: Unsafe Santa Rosa apartments and lapse by city fuel tenants' lawsuit (Part 2)

Stuck in squalor: Hundreds of Sonoma County renters endure poor living conditions (Part 1)

Health at risk for Sonoma County tenants in poor living conditions

Substandard housing in Sonoma County leads to poor health outcomes