by jpitney | May 23, 2024 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Housing
Andrew Khouri at LAT: Want a house in California? It’ll likely cost you over $900,000. The statewide median sales price for a previously owned single-family house surpassed $900,000 for the first time in April, a shocking figure that underscores just how unaffordable...
by jpitney | May 14, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
The number of fires that are related to homeless people or tents has been climbing in Los Angeles. The I-Team’s Joel Grover reports.
by jpitney | Apr 12, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
Marisa Kendall at CalMatters: Exactly how much is California spending to combat homelessness — and is it working? It turns out, no one knows. That’s the result of a much-anticipated statewide audit released Tuesday, which calls into question the state’s ability to...
by jpitney | Mar 16, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
As of the morning of March 16, Prop 1 leads by fewer than 20,000 votes statewide, with about 287,000 left to count. George Skelton at LAT: Gov. Gavin Newsom should have learned this four years ago: You don’t try to sell voters on more government spending in a primary...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2023 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Housing, Inequality
Will Parker and Christine Mai-Duc at WSJ: A Los Angeles nonprofit was given government land in January 2007 to build a few dozen units of affordable housing. They’re finally hoping to open the building next year. Lorena Plaza, a 49-unit development rising in the...
by jpitney | Jul 9, 2023 | California Politics, Housing, Texas
Marisa Kendall at CalMatters: Texas as a whole last year recorded a 28% drop in homelessness since 2012, while California’s homeless population grew by 43% over the same period. In Texas, 81 people are homeless for every 100,000 residents. In California, the rate is...
