CALIFORNIA WILL NOT LET SECTION 8 RENTERS BUY HOMES BECAUSE IT
CUTS INTO POLITICAL BRIBES
Section 8 renters get $1900.00 per month in HUD money to rent
studio apartments yet with $1900.00 per month, those renters can
use that same money to buy, and build, single family homes...BUT
CALIFORNIA WON'T LET THEM!
Sacramento public officials say that "ANYBODY WITH SECTION 8
HUD MONEY CAN BUY A HOME IN ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE"..BUT
THEY ARE LYING!!
Almost every mortgage company in California will finance a home
for you to buy, or build, if you have a guaranteed $1900.00 coming
in to pay that mortgage from Uncle Sam. Mortgage companies are not
the hold-up. You only need to cough up about $3000.00 to get the
deal done. Even the poorest people in the state can pull that
together.
Politicians and their big real estate developer financiers make
billions of dollars in profits off of multi-unit mass housing
buildings. Why would they give that up and allow citizens to have
their own homes when they can gut the system for all that they
can.
It is the corruption in Sacramento, San Francisco, Silicon
Valley, etc. political corridors that is driving the citizens to
the point of riots. The politicians have produced a hundred
thousand "reports" and "studies" that all confirm what common
wisdom has always known: The game is rigged by heartless
politicians and counties who are ruled by billionaires.
California has over a hundred thousand acres of available land.
That is enough to provide every single Californian, that wants
one, with a single family home that can be built for $250,000.00
(without price gouging contractors).
The State of California and HUD housing agencies have long lists
of “Certified”, “Qualified”, “Approved”, etc. loan brokers and
mortgage brokers that the agencies say will help low-income
citizens get single family financing.
So we called everybody on one of those lists provided by the State
of California.
In fact, those loan brokers and mortgage companies don’t want to
hear from you unless you are in a bid war on a $1.5 million dollar
bungalow for which you already have $500K, or more, in cash in the
bank.
Only a small percentage of the loan brokers and mortgage brokers
on those lists had EVER done a completed subsidized home loan and
even less had any clue how to paper a HUD Home Ownership financed
home loan. Over 20 U.S. Bank mortgage brokers even refused to
respond to emails or phone calls if one used the words “Cal-FHA
USDA” because, as one unusually talkative U.S. Bank employee
stated: “To us, those are code-words for ‘poor people”, the market
is, frankly, too hot for banks to bother with the poors because we
don’t make any money off them”.
It does not matter if you have spent years trying to keep your
FICO score above 700. It does not matter that you never had a
bankruptcy. It does not matter that you have guaranteed income for
life from your government benefits. All of those things that the
media told you to do to be a “good citizen” with a good social
credit score seem to be pointless.
The loan and mortgage brokers on those lists are only on those
lists to get a few PR brownie points. They do not want to hear
from you or deal with you unless you are making big bucks in tech.
They will let you upload your information but they will do little
or nothing to help you because they lose money by helping you.
They only make money off of the big deals.
On top of that the big real estate developers like Pulte Homes,
Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet), Kauffman and Broad (K&B
Homes), etc. are bribing the Governor and the heads of all of the
agencies to keep you from building a home or getting a home that
is not in one of their giant developments.
Most low-income people are the laborers who build the homes in
those big real estate developments. Those people know how to build
their own homes but State and Federal agency heads are bribed to
make sure you NEVER can build your own home. Those people know
they can build an incredible home, on their own, for under
$100,000.00. You an see thousands of videos on the internet
showing people that do it every day in any state but California.
Try to build a home in California. You will find you are blockaded
at every turn EXCLUSIVELY by rules that you have to follow but
that big developers do not!
Try to buy a modular or factory build home in California ...Same
thing.
The political bosses in California have taken so many bribes from
big special interests that they can’t stop sucking on the graft
hose.
Political Bribes By Special Interest Lobbyists Make California
Uninhabitable
If the state and federal government were actually serious about
solving the housing crisis, they would have a mortgage agency that
only serviced subsidized housing!
Low income people: “approved” lenders and mortgage brokers hate
you and don’t want you bothering them.
US BANK, Wells Fargo, Guild Mortgage, and all the rest, talk a
good story when they are on-camera or doing a public presentation
but the reality is that they consider you to be a “waste of their
time” if you are needing subsidized housing. They all issue press
releases where they talk about their “commitments” and “special
programs” but they put zero effort into those green-washing
intentions. They only say those things to keep the banking
regulators off their backs and to make their favorite politicians
happy.
When real estate developers are paying politicians and banks to
ignore low-income people and 79% of America is now “low income”,
with more arriving daily, what chance does the public have?
The trend is edging toward disaster.
The
incipient “Great Reset” is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot
about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated
aspects
– and we should – but there’s more to it than that.
Remember, they want you to “own
nothing and be happy”. And right at the top of the
list of
things you definitely shouldn’t own, is your own home.
The headlines about this have been steady for the last few years,
but it has picked up pace in the wake of the “pandemic” (as has
so much else). An agenda hidden on back pages, behind by Covid’s
meaningless big red numbers, but perhaps no less sinister.
You can find articles all over the net talking up renting over
owning.
Last month, for example, Bloomberg ran an article headlined:
America Should Become a Nation of Renters”
Which praises what they call “the liquefaction of the
housing market” and gleefully expounds on the idea that “The
very
features that made home buying an affordable and stable
investment are coming to an end.”
The Atlantic published “Why
Its Better To Rent Than Own” in March.
Financial pages from Business
Insider to Forbes
to Yahoo
and Bloomberg
again are filled with lists titled “9
Ways Renting is Better Than Buying”, or
similar.
Other publications go more personal with it, with anecdotal
columns about ignoring financial advice and refusing
to buy your home. Vox, never one to sell their agenda with
any
kind of subtlety, have
a piece titled:
Homeownership can bring out the worst in you
Which literally argues that buying a house can make you a bad
person:
It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could
be turning you into a bad person.
So what exactly is the narrative here? What’s the story behind
the story?
The short answer is fairly simple: It’s about greed, and it’s
about control.
It almost always is, in the end.
The longer answer is rather more complicated. Major investment
firms such as Vanguard and Blackrock, along with rental companies
such as American Homes 4 Rent, are buying up single-family homes
in
record numbers – sometimes entire neighbourhoods at a time.
They pay well over market value, pricing families who want to own
those homes out of the market, which forces the housing market up
whilst the Lockdown-created recession is lowering wages and
creating
millions of newly unemployed.
Of course, this is motivating people to sell the houses they
already own.
People all across America have been saddled with houses worth
less
than they bought them for since the 2008 economic crash, and are
eager to take the cash from private investment firms paying
10-20% over market value. Combine an economic recession with
a
created housing boom and you have a huge population of motivated
sellers.
Of course, many of these sellers don’t realise, until it’s too
late, that even if they attempt to downsize or move to a cheaper
area, they may be priced
out of the market completely, and
forced to rent.
As such, in the last year, the private investment share of
single-family home purchases is estimated to have increased
ten-fold,
going from 2% in 2018 to over 20% this year.
As more and more people are forced to rent, of course, rental
properties will be in higher and higher demand. This in turn will
drive the cost of renting up.
Market Watch has already reported that, in the last year, rent
has
increased
over 3x faster than the government predicted.
This problem is likely to get worse in the near future.
Last night, Congress “accidentally failed” to
extend the Covid-related eviction ban.
Which means, this weekend, while Senators adjourn to the summer
homes they probably don’t rent, the ban will officially end and a
lot of people are likely to have their houses
foreclosed or their landlords kick them out.
The newly empty buildings will be a feeding frenzy for the
massive
corporate landlords. Who will descend on the banks like starving
hyenas to snap up the foreclosed properties for pennies on the
dollar. Just like they
did in 2008.
None of this is any secret, it’s been covered
in the mainstream. Tucker Carlson even did a
segment on it in early June.
The Wall Street Journal headlined, back in April, “If
You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension
Fund”,
and reported:
Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family
homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices
However, since then, something has clearly changed. The
propaganda
machine has kicked into gear to defend Wall Street from any
backlash.
No better example of this shift can be found than The Atlantic,
which ran this
story in 2019:
WHEN WALL STREET IS YOUR LANDLORD
With help
from the federal government, institutional investors became major
players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to
their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are
happy. Tenants are not.
…and this story last
month:
BLACKROCK IS NOT RUINING THE US HOUSING MARKET
The
real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your
neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new
units.
Going back to the Vox
well we have:
Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing
market
Which ran just a few days after the Atlantic article, and is
practically identical.
Both these (oddly similar) articles argue that Wall Street and
private equity firms can’t be blamed for buying up houses, and
that
the real problem is the lack of supply to meet demand.
You see, all the “selfish” people who already own homes (they
did say it makes you a bad person) are blocking the construction
of
new houses, and thus driving up the cost of property through
scarcity.
This has been a logically flawed argument around the housing
market for decades.
That there aren’t enough houses for people to buy is patently
absurd when the US census data says that there are over 15
million houses currently standing empty. That’s enough to
house
all of America’s roughly 500,000 homeless people 30x over.
There’s plenty of houses, there’s just not enough money to buy
them.
The reason for that is the same reason the California
has
massive “homeless
camps” in its major cities, and that so many people are
having
to become renters instead of owners: wage
stagnation.
For decades now, wage increases have lagged behind increases in
the cost of living. In the 1960s one full-time job could afford a
decent standard of living for a family of four or more. These days
both parents work, sometimes multiple jobs each.
It was huge amounts of financial de-regulation which created this
situation. So, whether you believe Vox’s BlackRock apologia or
not,
one way or another Wall Street very definitely is to
blame.
But this isn’t just about money. It never is. Just as
the war on cash isn’t just about efficiency, and the environmental
push isn’t just about climate change. Ditto veganism. It’s about
control. Just like vaccines, lockdowns and masks.
It always comes down to control.
It’s an oft-used cliche, but no less true for that, that
homeowning “gives people a stake in society”. A
family-owned house is a source of security for the future and
something to leave your children. It is also sovereignty and
privacy.
Your own space that no one else can control or take away.
In short: A homeowner is independent. A renter is not. A renter
can be controlled. A homeowner can not.
It’s the same reasoning behind the way working people were
encouraged to take out loans and become
debt slaves. If you limit people’s options, if you make them
rely on you for a roof over their heads, you have control over
them.
There’s a great article about this situation called “Your
New Feudal Overlords”.
Under Feudalism, land wasn’t owned by the working class, but
provided to them by landed barons, hence the term “Land Lord”. If
you disrespected your Lord, or broke his rules, or he perceived
another peasant/farm animal/crop would be a better use of the
land,
he could take it back.
Essentially, the behaviour of serfs was kept in check by their
reliance on the nobility for a place to live. That’s very much the
dynamic they’re going for here.
Rental agreements can be full of any terms and conditions the
landlord wants, and the more desperate people get the more of
their
consumer rights they will sign over.
Maybe you’ll agree to smart meters which monitor your internet
or power-usage habits, and then sell the data to behavioural
modellers and viral marketers.
Maybe you’ll have to agree to certain power limitations or water
shortages in order to “fight climate change”.
Maybe it will get worse than that.
Maybe they’ll go full Black Mirror style corporate
dystopia. Maybe, through affiliation programs, the mega-equity
firm
which owns your rental house has ties to McDonald’s, and as such
will require you to not eat at any competing fast-food franchises,
or
demand you observe at least ninety seconds of Disney
advertisements
per day.
Maybe it will be as simple as including vaccine status in the
tenancy agreement, making it impossible for the unvaxxed to find a
home.
Maybe they just want to make poor people miserable.
After all, the super-wealthy have got all the money they could
ever need, and all the luxury they could ever use. Their living
standards are as high as physically possible. So maybe the only
way
they can keep “winning”, is to start driving the living standards
of us proles down.
No air travel. No vacations. No going out at all. Live in a tiny
house, or a
pod. Eat bugs.
Get rid of your
car. Rent your
clothes. Or your
furniture. Pay taxes on
sugar. And
alcohol. And red
meat.
They’ve been very clear about this. They’ve told you about the
Great Reset and the Internet
of Things. That’s the plan.
You won’t own a house. And you’ll be happy…or else the
mega-corporation you’re forced to rent from will kick you out.
Capital Public Radio: What’s working and what’s
next in California’s fight for affordable housing?
By Nicole Nixon [3-2-23] // A joint hearing of state lawmakers
from the Senate and Assembly looked at what’s working and where
the state continues to fall short on housing affordability.
KQED: 'We Have a Moment Here': An Urgent Push
for Farmworker Housing in Wake of Half Moon Bay Tragedy
By Tyche Hendricks [2-24-23] // For now, the 38 workers who were
displaced from the two mushroom farms recently moved into Airbnb
lodging — donated for a month. And officials are scrambling to
find a more permanent solution.
Sacramento Business Journal: Housing
California's Chione Flegal on California's 'growing' and
'persistent' lack of affordable housing
By Ben van der Meer [3-2-23] // Housing California’s executive
director spoke with the Business Journal about
California's shortage of affordable housing and possible
solutions.
Sacramento Bee: California is desperate for
affordable housing. How union conflicts are delaying it
By L. Holden & M Miller [3-1-23] // California lawmakers
thought they cracked the code last year on a construction union
stalemate holding up housing bills, but rifts within labor could
reignite the war over how best to craft affordable housing policy.
Eden Housing: Groundbreaking celebration for La
Avenida Apartments to take place March 3
[2-27-23] // This Mountain View development will provide 100 new,
affordable homes for individuals and families, including veterans
and formerly unhoused individuals.
Urbanize L.A.: 100 apartments rise at 11600 W
Santa Monica Boulevard in Sawtelle
By Steven Sharp [3-3-23] // Jamison Services ventures outside
Koreatown for a new project.
Capistrano Dispatch: Jamboree Housing Kicks Off
New City Hall, Housing Project with Upcoming Groundbreaking
Ceremony
By Collin Breaux [2-27-23] // The housing complex is intended to
provide shelter for formerly homeless people, specifically
veterans, families, and those earning no more than 50% of the area
median income. Groundbreaking is March 8.
Fontana Herald News: Money for mobile home
repairs in Fontana will be available
[3-1-23] // The City of Fontana has announced a new cost-saving
program for those who own and live in their mobile homes within
the city limits.
Mercury News: ‘Exactly what I needed’: Los Gatos
teachers move into affordable units
By Hanna Kanik [3-1-23] // Before she rented an affordable
apartment in downtown Los Gatos, teacher Elizabeth Sharkey paid
half her income for a single room with no kitchen in the Santa
Cruz mountains, an hour from her school.
Urbanize L.A.: Modular supportive housing takes
shape at 16015 Sherman Way in Van Nuys
By Steven Sharp [3-3-23] // Daylight Community Development, Decro
Corp., and the Downtown Women's Center are behind Oatsie's Place.
Tahoe Daily Tribune: New film explores Lake
Tahoe housing crisis
By Miranda Jacobson [2-17-23] // Elizabeth Cameron was shocked at
how housing prices had risen in the five years since she’d coached
and lived in the Tahoe area. So, she made “Room and Board,” a
30-minute documentary which will be playing at the Mammoth Film
Festival tomorrow, March 4.
Freethink: World’s largest 3D-printed affordable
housing project launches in Kenya
By Kristin Houser [3-1-23] // It printed the first 10 houses in
10 weeks.
Next City Podcast: The Results So Far: Is
Guaranteed Income Cutting Poverty?
[3-2-23] // Pilots of guaranteed income programs are launching in
cities all over the U.S. We check in with the researchers tracking
the results and what they show. (31 min.)
San Bernardino Sun: In 25 years, housing will
look different in Inland Empire
By David Downey [2-20-23] // Homes will be more dense, more
vertical and more energy efficient – but some fear there won’t be
enough homes for all.
Voice of San Diego: South Bay Mobile Home Park
Dispute Moves to Sacramento
By Jesse Marx [3-2-23] // Assemblyman David Alvarez introduced a
bill that would create new protections for residents living in
recreational vehicles at mobile home parks in Imperial Beach and
National City.
San Diego Union-Tribune: Settlement talks prompt
judge to delay finalizing ruling that halted Rancho Peñasquitos
housing development
By David Garrick [3-3-23] // The jointly requested delay could
lead to a deal, possibly with the developer building new fire
evacuation routes for the Junipers.
San Diego Union-Tribune: Should backcountry
builders fund city sidewalks and bike lanes? Supervisors explore
ways to offset vehicle traffic from new rural housing
By Deborah Sullivan Brennan [3-1-23] // Under a plan to reduce
the number of driving trips countywide, developers in
unincorporated communities could pay for transit and pedestrian
facilities in urban areas.
Discourse: Zoning Out American Families
By Emily Hamilton [2-23-23] // Misguided land use regulations are
making housing worse and less affordable for the very families
they’re supposed to help.
Mercury News: New bill aims to convert offices
to housing. Here’s where that could happen in the Bay Area
By Ethan Varian [3-2-23] // A model for the legislation,
sponsored by Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), is an office conversion program in the Canadian
city of Calgary.
Mercury News: Would dismantling Interstate 980
repair damage to Black neighborhoods?
By Shomik Mukherjee [2-28-23] // Caltrans will begin studying
whether Interstate 980 could be replaced by a city street that’s
less invasive to the neighborhoods it divided almost half a
century ago.
Smart Cities Dive: The average apartment size is
shrinking
By Mary Salmonsen [3-2-23] // Overall, new multifamily units were
54 square feet smaller in 2022 than they were 10 years earlier.
The Hill: Housing affordability hits historic
low
By Adam Barnes [3-3-23] // Fewer than a quarter of homes listed
for sale nationwide qualified as affordable for the typical U.S.
household, according to a new report shared exclusively with The
Hill. A separate report released Thursday by the NAR
found that the homeownership gap between Black and white buyers
increased in 2022 to its widest level in a decade.
CNBC: Mortgage rates jump back over 7% as
inflation fears drive yields higher
By Diana Olick [3-2-23] // Growing fears that inflation is not
cooling off are pushing bond yields higher. Mortgage rates loosely
follow the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury.
L.A. Times: Startling increase found in deaths
of Orange County homeless people. Drugs are the main cause
By Salvador Hernandez [3-1-23] // The Orange County report reflects a national
trend. In 2012, the CDC recorded 1,615 overdose deaths in the
U.S. linked to fentanyl. By 2021, the number of deaths due to
synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, was more than 71,000.
New Santa Ana: Santa Ana declares victory after
their own federal lawsuit against a developer is dismissed
[3-3-23] // Judge David O. Carter has dismissed a lawsuit brought
by the City of Santa Ana against the developer of a new homeless
shelter after the City successfully compelled the defendant to
complete construction of the project.
Napa Valley Register: Homeless people to get
permanent housing at former Napa motel
By Jennifer Huffman [2-24-23] // Burbank Housing is more than
half finished with its remodel of the former Wine Valley Lodge
Motel. It will provide housing to 54 tenants as Valley Lodge
Apartments.
New York Times: A Homeless Student’s Search
Sheds Light on L.A. Housing Challenges
By Corina Knoll [3-1-23] // Jacqueline Benitez thought getting a
housing voucher would be a golden ticket to her own apartment. Her
search quickly proved otherwise.
S.F. Chronicle: S.F. hotels say homeless
residents damaged properties. Here’s how much city could owe for
shelter program
By St. John Barned-Smith [2-28-23] // The city of San Francisco
believes it may need to pay up to $26 million for damage and lost revenue to hotels that
homeless residents caused during the pandemic.
Planetizen: Quiz: How Well Do You Understand the
Homelessness Crisis?
By Diana Ionescu [3-2-23] // An online questionnaire from Urban
Institute’s Housing Matters illuminates the root
causes of homelessness, debunking some common myths about unhoused
people in America.
OC Register: Homeless advocates pitch igloos to
offer warm shelter during cold snap
By Roxana Kopetman [3-1-23] // Along with a warm shelter, Wound
Walk offered 26 people in Anaheim dry clothes, food, hot coffee
and medical care, Michael Sean Wright said. “Three presented with
extreme hypothermia.”
San Jose Spotlight: RV dwellers in San Jose
still in limbo
By Jana Kadah [3-2-23] // Infrastructure work is still needed, pushing back the opening of the Santa Teresa
VTA light rail site until at least March 31.
L.A. Times: Pandemic food benefits are ending
for millions of Californians. Now what?
By Mackenzie Mays [3-2-23] // Nearly 3 million households in
California will stop receiving extra federal food benefits granted
during the COVID-19 pandemic, a squeeze on budgets that comes as
people continue to struggle with the rising cost of living.
Smart Cities Dive: White House releases national
cyber strategy, shifting security burden
By David Jones [3-3-23] // The long-anticipated policy
will push the technology industry to shoulder more of the load
for cyber risk, while promoting long-term investments and global
cooperation against common threats.
Mercury News: Bobcat spotted using Highway 17
wildlife crossing hours after it opens
By Hannah Kanik [3-2-23] // There is also evidence of many other
animals using the safe passage under the Santa Cruz County
highway, including deer and foxes.
Streetsblog: Federal Reconnecting Communities
Program Announces First Grants, Four in California
By Melanie Curry [2-28-23] // Long Beach, Oakland, Pasadena, and
Fresno will all receive funding to connect communities that were
divided by highways.
San Jose Spotlight: State budget cut threatens
transit in Silicon Valley
By Monica Mallon [3-2-23] // (Opinion) While some may argue that
transit shouldn’t be prioritized because most people drive,
everyone is impacted by transit — even if they don’t take it.
Urbanize L.A.: Mixed-use project moves forward
at 8141 Van Nuys in Panorama City
By Steven Sharp [3-3-23] // 200 apartments and retail would rise
near a future light rail stop.
Marin Independent Journal: Golden Gate Village
residents to benefit from $2 million fund
By Richard Halstead [2-28-23] // The $2 million for the
empowerment fund is part of the $5 million earmarked to help
rehabilitate the southern Marin public housing complex.
Mercury News: San Jose site for proposed housing
project tumbles into loan default
By George Avalos [3-2-23] // More than 100 apartments could
sprout at property that’s become an eyesore.
FHFA: FHFA Announces $545 Million for Affordable
Housing Programs
[2-28-23] // Funds will be disbursed to Housing Trust Fund and
Capital Magnet Fund.
The Hill: Rubio reintroduces affordable housing
bills to tackle housing issues
By Sarah Polus [3-2-23] // The seven bills are aimed at keeping
low-income housing tenants safe, holding property owners
accountable and increasing the affordable housing stock, according
to a release.
Vox: The big, neglected problem that should be
Biden’s top priority
By Rachel M. Cohen [3-1-23] // Ten months after the White House
announced its Housing Supply Action Plan, the federal government
has …largely failed to authorize new spending to expand the supply
of housing.
Planetizen: Land Use Reform Picks Up Momentum in
Connecticut Again
By Mark H. McNulty [2-27-23] // A transit-oriented development
bill, Work Live Ride, and a “Fair Share” bill might help expand
housing development through land use reform.
KVPR: ‘Someone decided to play ICE.’ Tulare
County families report threats, wrongful evictions
By Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado [3-2-23] // The Tulare County
Housing Authority Board of Commissioners has launched an
investigation into allegations that staff members of the Tulare
County Housing Authority intimidated residents of farm
labor housing centers and wrongfully pushed out families.
Axios: Phoenix prohibits housing discrimination
based on income source — for now
By Jessica Boehm [3-3-23] // The new policy will force Phoenix landlords to
accept renters who use housing choice vouchers or other government
assistance and will prevent lenders and sellers from denying a
buyer based solely on where they get their income. Violations
could result in a $2,500.00 penalty.
National Association of Counties: HUD Publishes
Proposed Rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
Mandate
By M. Matthews & J. Cortina [2-27-23] // The proposed rule,
which incorporates much of the framework of the 2015 AFFH rule,
streamlines the required fair housing analysis for local
governments, states and public housing agencies.
Dallas Observer: Justice Department Files Fair
Housing Complaint Against DFW Landlord
By Jacob Vaughn [2-27-23] // The federal complaint alleges that
the owners and operators of the rental discriminated against the
renters on the basis of their disability.
Mercury News: Grappling with homelessness,
California weighs extending foster care for 5 years
By Jeremy Loudenback [2-28-23] // Senate Bill 9 comes amid
growing attention to how poorly young people leaving the state’s
care fare once they are 21.
ABC: High costs driving people out of LA, into
Inland Empire, data show
By Rob McMillan [2-15-23] // (Video/text) For the last several years, more people have
moved away from California than have moved in. But within
the state, more suburban areas are seeing gains, recent federal
numbers show.
Planetizen: Los Angeles County Looks to Mandate
Seismic Retrofits
By Diana Ionescu [3-1-23] // A common building type is a major
contributor to earthquake fatalities, prompting the Board of
Supervisors to consider requiring safety upgrades on older
buildings.
Next City: In Cities, Reducing Air Pollution
Could Lower Cancer Rates at Similar Rates as Eliminating Smoking
Kristina Marusic [3-1-23] // “Places with high levels of air
pollution would still have higher cancer rates even if smoking was
eliminated.”
New York Times: In a California Town,
Farmworkers Start from Scratch after Surprise Flood
By Soumya Karlamangla & Viviana Hinojos [2-25-23] // Planada
residents spent decades building their lives in the Central Valley
community. A brutal series of storms destroyed what they had.
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