Two housing advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for allegedly unlawfully diverting $75 million in permanent supportive housing funds to advance the Trump administration’s social agenda.
The House of Representatives narrowly passed the “Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025”, which would impose steep mandatory minimum sentences and potential life sentences on asylum seekers, teenagers, and immigrant families attempting to reunite, with critics arguing that it represents an extreme expansion of federal sentencing and would undermine public safety.
Community members and organizations in Los Angeles are increasing efforts to document ICE raids at carwashes and ensure the safety of workers, following a Supreme Court decision staying a temporary restraining order that had blocked roving ICE patrols.
Ourania Thimmhardy, a 71-year-old woman, has filed a formal complaint against multiple Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies after being allegedly assaulted by former Deputy Matthew Gurich, resulting in permanent injuries.
SB 5, legislation to prevent developers from exploiting the special tax status of protected California farmland to finance urban improvements, passed the Legislature with bipartisan support and now goes to the governor.
The Sacramento Housing Alliance is urging the city council to reject a developer’s appeal to downzone key parcels in Crocker Village from multifamily to single-family housing, arguing that such a move would worsen Sacramento’s housing crisis and undermine state housing laws.
Millions of Americans are living in homes that are crumbling and unsafe due to a lack of maintenance, and programs designed to help are overwhelmed with long waiting lists, resulting in a need for federal support to address this aspect of the housing crisis.
Two workers were killed and ten others injured in a gas explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Pennsylvania, highlighting the ongoing dangers of the steel industry and the need for improved safety measures.
Homelessness in the US is a result of decades of political choices, such as the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which pulled the federal government out of building and maintaining public housing, and is exacerbated by rising rents, stagnant wages, and gentrification, making it difficult for working families to find affordable housing.
Radley Balko and Ezra Klein argue that the militarization of American policing is a sign of a shift towards authoritarianism, and that the only way to resist this trend is to build state-level counter-capacity and to remember that the true power lies with the citizenry.
Mayor Kevin McCarty of Sacramento announced the construction of 135 tiny homes at the Roseville Road Shelter‐and‐Service Campus, providing a cost-effective solution to the city’s homelessness crisis and complementing other initiatives such as safe parking and motel conversions.
Decarcerate Sacramento and the Anti Police-Terror Project have alleged that Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper illegally shut down their mutual aid program outside the downtown Main Jail, while threatening to arrest volunteers, in violation of their First Amendment rights.
The Sacramento City Council is reviewing a performance audit of the Front Street Animal Shelter, which revealed significant operational failures under Director Philip Zimmerman, including chronic failures in leadership, enforcement of spay and neuter mandates, and compliance with state law.
Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee (NLG) are taking international legal action against the US government for its participation in the genocide in Gaza, filing a legal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The Trump administration is facing criticism for a HUD directive that would require public housing authorities to identify immigrant tenants and families with mixed immigration status, which could lead to destabilization of families and worsen the nation’s housing crisis.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) announced that the region built 12,500 homes in 2024, marking the highest housing production year since 2005 and a 60 percent increase compared to just five years ago.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced that $75.5 million in voter-approved Proposition 1 funding will be used to create 200 new permanent supportive homes in Oakland, Santa Clara, and Ventura for Californians experiencing or at risk of homelessness and living with behavioral health challenges.
Former police investigator and author Mac Muir argues that the American policing system is designed to produce “everyday injustice,” not isolated acts of brutality, and proposes several reforms to address the systemic issues.
Sacramento has successfully met the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, a milestone celebrated by regional and federal officials as a public health and environmental achievement.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to develop more of the North Natomas basin, which is a floodplain surrounded by levees that were originally so weak that a grant to expand regional sewer contained a $6 million penalty if that capacity were used to serve North Natomas, and the land speculators controlling North Natomas were able to get the penalty waived and receive $43 million in levee improvement grants, which is bad for the public realm and the environment.