Housing and Homeslessness

Maleak Taylor (left), a freshman at North Divison High School, plays quints for the drumline.

How a Milwaukee community garden helped turn a struggling boy into 'Lil Obama'

An actor-turned-activist founded the "We Got This" program five years ago. It is aimed squarely at boys like Maleak, who has a father in prison, a mother struggling to make ends meet and, often, lots of pent-up anger.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Aging

Apartments at Carriage Park Apartments are under construction after being damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

11 years have passed since affordable housing was built in Victoria; advocates say change needed

Little has been done to boost the number of affordable rental units since Harvey struck.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness

What I learned reporting on Sacramento’s effort to get dying people off the streets

What I learned reporting on Sacramento’s effort to get dying people off the streets

When I walked into Room 104 at a Motel 6 along a busy Sacramento road, I entered a deeper understanding of a complicated and growing crisis.

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

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Calif. approved billions for supportive homeless housing — but how will the money be spent?

The bond money for Proposition 2 will be financed by funds from the Mental Health Services Act, which has been mired in controversy and ineffectiveness since its passage in 2004.

Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health

Several San Francisco city departments have seen challenges as they implement sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI, q

SF LGBT data collection a work in progress

Matthew S. Bajko is a recipient of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2017 California Fellowship.

Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness

[Photo by Joel Achatz via Flickr.]

When homeless encampments are torn down, what happens to health care?

Mobile health workers say their contact with residents of a homeless encampment in the Coachella Valley dropped after the camp was bulldozed.

Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness

Robert By Khang was the first Hmong refugee to move to Sacramento after the Vietnam War.

After the war: They fought alongside U.S. forces in Vietnam. Generations later, trauma still haunts Sacramento’s Hmong community

They fought alongside U.S. forces in Vietnam. Generations later, trauma still haunts Sacramento’s Hmong community.

Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health

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Hope, Humanity & Housing: Sacramento program aims to get people off streets, into homes

Reporter Vicki Gonzalez spent the past year on this series as a recipient of the 2018 California Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Housing and Homeslessness, Aging

Douglas Mundo, co-director of Shore Up Marin, at an apartment complex on the San Rafael canal, which is vulnerable to sea level

In Poor Neighborhoods, Add Rising Seas to List of Housing Woes

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

Amilcar Heredia, Eduardo Assef, Robert Santos and Isaac Fonseca stand outside Reynaldo Garza’s home after cleaning up debris in

Volunteers help Vietnam veteran living in car after Harvey

After learning about a Vietnam veteran who moved into his car after Hurricane Harvey, volunteers from the Texas Gulf Coast jumped in to help him clean up his home.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety