It’s difficult for housing advocates to criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom because he’s done more to boost production than any other governor in recent memory — but that’s mostly because the bar is so low. Measured against the goal he set for himself, Newsom’s record is less impressive. Just 13 percent of the 3.5 million homes he […]
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Contractor’s Deal on California Rent Relief Gets more Lucrative
Despite an initial slow rollout of rent relief money, the state of California is extending and more than doubling its deal with the outside contractor it hired to get the money to tenants and landlords. The contract with Horne LLP, a Mississippi-based accounting firm that specializes in disaster relief, jumped from $51.7 million when the […]
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‘Through the Cracks’
When Blanca Esthela Trejo, 46, lies down to sleep, it feels like shards of glass stab her back and cut into her lungs — a lingering effect of COVID-19. “I’d like to be crouched down, hunched over all the time, because the pain is too much,” she said. But Trejo is foregoing medical treatment because […]
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The Disclosure Question
Napa County doesn’t collect data about coronavirus outbreaks in workplaces while nearby Sonoma County does, but won’t identify them because it would compromise the county’s working relationship with employers. Alameda County won’t share outbreak locations to protect privacy and to guard against what one health official called undue stigma. Humboldt County tends toward not releasing […]