Housing Crisis

Gavin Newsom began his governorship with promises of decisive action on key issues, homelessness among them. Despite billions of dollars in spending, the population has increased and the crisis remains a weapon for Newsom's opponents.

The state's elected insurance commissioner formally unveiled a large chunk of his plan to stem the exodus of insurers from California. Adoption of the plans may result in premium hikes, but maintaining a viable market is vital to the state's economy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently moved to Marin County, home to wealthy enclaves that are notorious for resisting his pro-housing policies.

The rising home costs have spawned other problems, such as widening income gaps, growing financial burdens and an outflow of people from California.

California has for years tiptoed around the housing crisis. Berkeley's reforms may be the way to resolve it.

Experts predict funding cuts and policy changes. But Trump and Newsom appear to agree on encampment sweeps.

Prop. 34 is about healthcare spending. But it will also likely quash the controversial AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s fight for rent control.

As voters weigh whether to allow local governments to expand rent control, elected officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles have already shown interest in doing so. In other cities, local laws could automatically cap annual rent increases on some single-family homes and newer apartment buildings if Prop. 33 passes.

Proposition 33 looks deceptively simple on the California ballot. But it comes with complications that are hard to see at first, raising questions for which there are few definitive answers.

California has one of the lowest homeownership rates in the nation. Similar to other economic indices, it also includes a strong racial component that affects state's generational wealth gap.