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Broken dreams: inside California's housing crisis

The dream of an affordable home feels all but impossible for most Californians. From homelessness to house building, we explore how things got so bad

31 March 2020

  • Past actions by the LA Tenants Union, which has helped organize rent strikes across the city over the past year

    'This is about survival': California tenants plan rent strikes as Covid-19 relief falls short

    Renters say governor’s emergency eviction protections leave many behind and that the only option is to withhold money

15 March 2020

  • When a global pandemic hits a state already gripped by a housing affordability crisis, the impact is both devastating and far-reaching. Those on the margins bear the brunt the hardest.

    'Putting us out on the streets': Seniors face eviction amid deadly outbreak

    Two disasters are intersecting in California: the housing crisis and the coronavirus pandemic

21 February 2020

  • In a city where the black population teeters between 5% and 6%, 37% of the growing homeless population is black.

    'It's a cycle': the disproportionate toll of homelessness on San Francisco's African Americans

    In a city where the homeless population is 37% black, having a job doesn’t mean you can afford housing

31 January 2020

  • Signs are posted outside of a house that was occupied by homeless women in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Homeless women ordered by a judge last week to leave a vacant house they occupied illegally in Oakland for two months have been evicted by sheriff’s deputies. They removed two women and a male supporter Tuesday from the home before dawn in a case highlighting California’s severe housing shortage and growing homeless population. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

    California housing bill’s failure comes amid fierce debate on how to solve crisis

    Lawmakers, housing advocates and community groups all demand action – but few agree on a solution

30 January 2020

  • California lawmakers have voted down a bill that would have eased the state’s growing housing crisis.

    California lawmakers fail to pass bill to combat housing crisis

    SB50 would have overridden zoning laws to allow small apartment buildings in single-family-home neighborhoods

27 January 2020

  • Karen Ashby in her backyard at Golden Gate Village in Marin City, Calif., Thursday, January 23, 2020. Jason Henry for The Guardian

    'I don't have anywhere else to go': why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing

    Golden Gate Village is a government-owned complex in one of California’s wealthiest counties – in an area with a cycle of gentrification and black displacement

21 January 2020

  • Dominique Walker,Kat Brooks<br>In this Dec. 6, 2019 photo, Moms 4 Housing member Dominique Walker, 34, left, activist and 2018 Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks, right, and other activists react as supporters chant “power to the moms” outside a home in West Oakland, Calif. Walker and other homeless women took over the vacant house and moved in last November. They are awaiting a final ruling from a judge on whether they can stay, though Alameda County Superior Court Judge Patrick McKinney has tentatively ruled in favor of the property owner, Wedgewood Inc.(Marissa Kendal/Bay Area News Group via AP)

    Mothers who occupied vacant Oakland house will be allowed to buy it

    Intervention of California governor helps Moms 4 Housing group score victory in fight against state’s homeless crisis

15 January 2020

  • Oakland Homelessness<br>Dominique Walker, 34, stands for a portrait on the steps of a vacant house she occupies with a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers in West Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, January 5, 2020. CREDIT: Sarahbeth Maney for The Guardian "This feels like home," said Walker.

    'This movement is just beginning': homeless moms evicted after taking over vacant house

    Moms 4 Housing was evicted on Tuesday after taking shelter in a vacant home. ‘We are the new face of homelessness,’ says founder Dominique Walker

7 January 2020

  • Skinny lives at 37MLK, the homeless encampment in Oakland, California, that was created by community organizers taking over a vacant lot.

    The Oakland women who took over a vacant lot to house the homeless

    As homeless encampments continue to get shut down or swept up, some local lawmakers are looking at the 37MLK camp as a model

6 January 2020

  • California needs between 1.8m and 3.5m new housing units by 2025 to accommodate projected population growth.

    Silicon Valley has pledged billions to fight the housing crisis. It won't be enough

    California needs between 1.8m and 3.5m new housing units by 2025. Major hurdles stand in the way
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