A few years ago, 300 low-income families in East Oakland began receiving $500 a month. Cold, hard cash, with no strings attached. This was Oakland’s experiment with “guaranteed income,” the idea that ...

A California bank last week announced $850,000 in grants to 17 affordable-housing developers, supporting the preservation of ...

Oakland officials have a new take on a controversial housing program that hasn’t always delivered the affordability it promised struggling renters. Across California, cities have signed on to a ...

Saying that housing in California is expensive isn’t much of a revelation. However, defining what constitutes “low-income” due to housing affordability is changing. Three Southern California counties ...

Rahm Emanuel's infamous dictum -- "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" -- is alive and well in the Golden State, apparently. A little over a half a year on from the destruction wrought by ...

LA will be allowed to use property taxes to buy fire ravaged lots as a way to build multi-unit Credit: Courtesy of Eli Young LA will be allowed to use property taxes to buy fire ravaged lots as a way ...