Local leaders gathered to mark the grand opening of Powell’s Landing, a new permanent supportive housing project that offers 69 units for adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness, featuring on-site support services and amenities, and is being held up as an example of public-private collaboration in addressing homelessness and housing insecurity.
The Society of Professional Journalists and a dozen other press freedom and civil liberties organizations have sent a letter to the National Guard urging them to uphold press freedoms during their current deployment to Washington, D.C.
A coalition of housing advocates, legal experts, and social service providers has warned that banishment ordinances targeting unhoused people are unconstitutional, ineffective, and harmful, while President Trump has ordered homeless encampments in Washington, D.C. to be cleared and their residents moved out of the city.
Wealth inequality in the United States is growing, and while some argue that it is a necessary part of a meritocratic system, it is actually undermining the American dream and should be addressed through policies such as increasing the capital gains tax and decreasing the estate tax threshold.
The Sacramento Homeless Union has won a federal lawsuit against the City of Sacramento, resulting in a legal settlement that provides protections for unhoused residents during extreme heat events.
The Trump administration is using military force to conduct immigration raids in American cities, which is a dangerous erosion of the line between civilian and military authority and threatens the constitutional balance and civil liberties at the heart of American democracy.
As the American housing crisis worsens, policymakers, advocates, and residents are considering bold solutions such as public ownership, rent control, and social housing to address the failures of the private housing market.
Eviction is not only a housing emergency but a public health crisis, with research showing that it can lead to premature birth, psychological stress, and other negative health outcomes, particularly for Black mothers and children.
Increasing housing supply, both at the regional and neighborhood level, can significantly slow rent growth and benefit low-income renters the most by relieving pressure on the lower end of the housing market.
Senators Edward J. Markey and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley have reintroduced the Freedom to Move Act, which would provide federal support to help communities create fare-free public transportation systems and improve access to reliable public transportation for low-income workers, seniors, people with disabilities, and others facing severe inequalities.
U.S. Representative John Garamendi condemned Israel’s restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, accusing Israeli leadership of purposefully starving the population and calling for the U.S. to stop providing military support to Israel.
The Trump administration’s executive order on homelessness and mental illness is a misguided strategy that prioritizes public visibility over public health, and instead of providing long-term support, it cycles people in and out of expensive institutions without addressing the underlying causes of homelessness.
The Trump administration is dismantling programs that protect vulnerable families from housing discrimination, while New York’s housing crisis continues to worsen, leaving thousands of people technically housed but living in overcrowded and doubled-up homes.
Time limits on housing assistance do not address the root cause of housing instability, which is a major contributor to poverty, and instead of reducing public costs, they can lead to increased costs downstream in emergency services, homelessness, foster care, health care, and incarceration.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it did not participate in recent immigration enforcement operations in the area, despite receiving 911 calls related to such operations.
The Trump administration is using administrative subpoenas to intimidate landlords into handing over sensitive tenant records, effectively creating an extrajudicial surveillance system that preys on confusion and fear, and undermining the rights of undocumented immigrants.
The Trump administration’s immigration policies, targeting undocumented immigrants, TPS holders, and naturalized citizens, are being challenged in the courts and are not shared by most Americans, who support a pathway to citizenship and reject mass deportations.
The ideology of colorblindness, which seeks to ignore race, actually fosters racial inequality and hinders progress towards racial equity, while the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to remedy the legacy of slavery and promote fairness.
Governor Gavin Newsom called on President Trump to adopt a California-modeled executive order to increase federal forest management efforts and match California’s aggressive wildfire prevention work, while also criticizing the Trump administration’s “illegal federalization” of California National Guard troops and the federal government’s withdrawal from wildfire prevention efforts.
BEAM Circular has secured $9.8 million in funding to launch the California Bioeconomy Innovation Campus, which will advance technologies that transform agricultural waste, food scraps, and forest residues into renewable energy, sustainable materials, and other biobased products, creating high-quality jobs and addressing climate challenges.