The committee votes are the first steps forward for the transit-oriented and ‘fair share’ housing bills.
Housing and Homeslessness
It’s not uncommon for families to spend weeks or months looking for a new apartment after an eviction
A program to help mobile home park residents got huge revamp last year. Will more than tripling the size of the loan fund and streamlining the application process yield results?
CalMatters Housing Reporter Manuela Tobias shares her findings from an investigation on California’s mobile home parks.
This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 Data Fellowship.
How was I going to find enough details to rebuild the life of an unhoused woman who had a small support network?
“It’s like a scene from a bad movie where people are trying, and trying, and trying until someone pulls them off,” said one hotel staffer, describing the day one of the guests fatally overdosed.
A form of addiction treatment called SMART Recovery uses cognitive behavioral therapy and positive thinking to help people beat their drug habit.
Carmen Diaz remembers what it was like to be forced out of her home — to be a 13- or 14-year-old who had to pack up her room and stay at a family friend’s house, unsure of where her family would go next.
When Elizabeth Rodriguez tells her 8-year-old son that she doesn’t have any of his baby pictures, not even one or two, she starts to break down.