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California Students of Color Disproportionately Experience Homelessness

California Must do More to Support Latinx, Black, Native American, and Pacific Islander Students

December 2020 | By Monica Davalos and Kayla Kitson

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Congress’ Failure to Extend UI is an Economic Attack on Workers & Families, Particularly Black & Brown Californians… Here’s How We Know

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Another day ticks by and out-of-work Californians are increasingly uncertain how they’re going to pay their rent and put food on the table if Congress cuts federal unemployment benefits, as Senate Republicans have proposed. This much is clear: Cutting federal unemployment benefits by any amount attacks the economic security of Black and brown workers and families across California, as well … Continued

Introduction

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, unaffordable housing costs represented one of California’s most pressing challenges – and the job losses triggered by stay-home orders necessary to address the public health emergency threaten to exacerbate this long-standing crisis. Housing affordability is a problem throughout the state when housing costs are compared to incomes, and the Californians who are most affected by the affordability crisis are renters, households with the lowest incomes, people of color, and immigrants. Many of these same Californians are also especially hard hit by the economic effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis. Policy solutions that particularly address the needs of these households represent a promising approach to tackling the state’s housing crisis strategically, with a focus on those most deeply affected. The current pandemic highlights the urgency for strategies to eliminate unjust disparities in who is burdened by unaffordable housing, including racial inequities in housing affordability.

Among the key findings based on the most recent data available from 2018:

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, unaffordable housing costs represented one of California’s most pressing challenges – and the job losses triggered by stay-home orders necessary to address the public health emergency threaten to exacerbate this long-standing crisis. Housing affordability is a problem throughout the state when housing costs are compared to incomes, and the Californians who are most affected by the affordability crisis are renters, households with the lowest incomes, people of color, and immigrants.

See our report — Staying Home During California’s Affordability Crisis — by Research Associate, Aureo Mesquita, and Senior Policy Analyst, Sara Kimberlin to learn more.

This video is part of our Policy Perspectives Speaker Series. Thank you to our 2020 series sponsors: First 5 California, First 5 LA, and the Stupski Foundation, for making this programming possible.

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