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Who is Experiencing Housing Hardship in California?
Introduction All Californians deserve a safe and stable place to call home – a home that is affordable, located near their work and communities. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s serious housing affordability challenges threatened the well-being of families and communities and the future growth of the state. Throughout the pandemic, job losses have hit … Continued
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California Renters Risk Eviction and Homelessness as Key Protections Expire
Safe and stable housing is a fundamental need for every child and adult. Yet state legal protections that have kept California renters with low incomes housed throughout the pandemic expire at the end of March 2022. Applications for emergency rental assistance will close at the same time. Half of California renters with low incomes report … ContinuedCOVID-19Housing & Homelessness -
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Who is Experiencing Homelessness in California?
Tailored housing interventions are needed for California’s diverse unhoused populationHousing & Homelessness -
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Q&A: Understanding Homelessness in California & What Can Be Done
Having a place to call home is the most basic foundation for health and well-being no matter one’s age, gender, race, or zip code.Housing & Homelessness -
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Renters Face Housing Instability and Inequity Before and After COVID-19
Almost 17 million Californians — 44% of all state residents — live in homes that are rented. As the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have unfolded, the urgent needs of California’s renters have rightly received significant attention, including calls for eviction moratoriums, rental assistance, and production of more affordable housing. Many of the millions of workers who have lost jobs fear missing rent payments and losing a safe home for their families at a time when having a safe and stable home is especially vital for both personal health and public health. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and recession, when the state’s economy was booming, millions of California renters struggled to afford the high cost of their housing. In the coming months, California’s local, state, and federal policymakers will have choices and decisions to make about how to address the needs of renters through proposed changes in laws and new policy proposals.Housing & Homelessness -
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Unaffordable Housing Harmed Black & Latinx Children Even Before COVID-19
Californians faced a housing affordability crisis even before COVID-19.Housing & Homelessness -
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California Students of Color Disproportionately Experience Homelessness
Nearly 270,000 of California’s public K-12 students experienced homelessness in 2018-19. This includes children temporarily staying with other families due to economic hardship, and children living in motels, shelters, vehicles, public spaces, or substandard housing.EducationHousing & Homelessness -
Congress’ Failure to Extend UI is an Economic Attack on Workers & Families, Particularly Black & Brown Californians… Here’s How We Know
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 … ContinuedCOVID-19Housing & Homelessness -
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Staying Home During California’s Housing Affordability Crisis
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.Housing & Homelessness -
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California’s Housing Affordability Crisis
Millions of Californians who are out of work are at risk of losing a key support that has helped cover the rent — enhanced unemployment insurance benefits. Research Associate, Aureo Mesquita, and Senior Policy Analyst, Sara Kimberlin discuss key findings from their new report Staying Home During California’s Affordability Crisis and explain how the COVID-19 recession is exacerbating the housing affordability crisis across California.Housing & Homelessness -
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Homelessness and COVID-19
On a given night, more than 150,000 Californians are homeless. These individuals face significant risk of exposure to COVID-19 and serious barriers to following stay home orders to limit the spread of infection. Due to older ages and high rates of physical health conditions, they are also at high risk of severe complications or even death from the virus. Black Californians are greatly overrepresented among homeless individuals, making their health especially endangered by COVID-19. Policymakers should make sure the urgent housing and health needs of Californians who are homeless are met, to protect their health and the broader public health and to address racial health disparities exacerbated by this pandemic.COVID-19Housing & Homelessness -
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Housing Affordability Is a Problem in All Regions of California
Housing costs vary substantially throughout California, with the highest costs in coastal urban areas and the lowest costs in inland rural areas. But incomes also vary regionally, and areas with relatively lower housing costs also tend to have lower typical incomes. The result is that housing affordability is clearly a problem throughout the state when housing costs are compared to incomes.Housing & Homelessness
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