Affordable housing in northern California after wildfire last year still elusive for many families

By some estimates, more than 1,000 families are still homeless around Paradise in rural Butte County after losing their homes in the Camp Fire wildfires, contributing to a growing homelessness crisis.

Affordable housing—and proximity to work—elude most low-income Americans

While it remains challenging today for many low-income Americans to find affordable housing, if they do it is often far from their workplace and schools.

California’s dearth of affordable housing is very acute in the Central Valley

California’s housing shortage is, by some estimates, the worst it’s ever been. But according to an editorial in the Fresno Bee, the crisis is most acute in the state’s Central Valley …

Study shows drinking water could help reduce kids’ soda consumption

A recent study found that one in five American children don’t drink any water at all during an average day. To make matters worse, those same kids are getting about twice the amount of sugar from soda and other sugar sweetened beverages as those who do drink water.

Rural California water district sues to halt Colorado River drought plan

The Imperial Irrigation District (IID), which serves rural communities in the Coachella Valley, has filed a petition to halt a drought contingency plan for the Colorado River that President Trump signed into law.