New study says high housing costs, low income push Californians into homelessness1 of 17 | In this photo illuminated by an off-camera flash, a homeless person’s tent is backdropped by the skyline of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. A new study by the University of California, ...
Low-income tenants and housing advocates claimed a major victory in San Francisco. Supporters said the years'-old battle for the development of more affordable housing in the Mission District has ended in their favor. SAN FRANCISCO - Low-income tenants and housing advocates claimed a major victory...
The project was developed for the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Century Freeway housing replenishment program by the nonprofit Watts Labor Community Action Committee and Watt/Parker Inc., Santa Monica. Rents are calculated at 30% of a family’s income, according to M...
Among people on rental lease agreements, more than 20% cited income loss or reduction as the primary reason they lost housing. “So it wasn’t so much that their housing costs increased, it’s that they could no longer keep up with it,” said Kushel. California ranks as the ...
Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing disparities among low-income Black young adults in the US. Most studies have focused on single dimensions of housing instability, and thus provide a partial view of how Black young adults experience multipl...
After 10 years of living on the third floor of a building off Sixth Street and Broadway, Darrel Howard was told he was being evicted — given just 30 days to move out. "At this point, to be blunt, I have no future," said Howard. "I was asking myself why, because the notice ...
California FreshWorks is a mission-driven lending network that supports enterprises across that increase access to healthy food in California’s low-income communities.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s modest home painstakingly had been put on steel beams for the four-hour journey to the Lincoln Triangle neighborhood. There, the city is refurbishing it, and in a few months will sell it to a low-income family in an effort to provide more affordable housing in ...
Where are our low-income residents going to go?” Jay Cortez, a spokesperson for City Councilmember Gil Cedillo, tells Curbed that the council office is working with Los Angeles’s housing department to negotiate “a positive solution” for residents of Hillside Villa. He did not provide more...
Time was, Tennie Sewell remembers, when the 2,000 or so residents of Normont Terrace didn't pay much mind to what happened at their low-income housing development in a rugged pocket of Harbor City.