After a contentious battle over the 2019 budget, federal lawmakers agreed to increase funding for tenant-based rental assistance, including Section 8 rental vouchers.
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California’s new housing goals face many hurdles, according to academic report
California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, has made housing one of the cornerstones of his agenda, but an academic report says that limited zoned land will make that goal hard to achieve.
California’s vanishing groundwater is sinking a rural community
Because of excessive groundwater extraction, subsidence—the sinking or settling of the ground’s surface—is dragging rural Yolo and Colusa counties in California downward.
Californians see various culprits in state’s affordable housing shortage
While many Californians think that their state could solve the affordable housing crisis by just ramping up construction, others blame a lack of rent control, not enough funding for affordable homes and too strict environmental controls.
Student debt hinders millennials ability to achieve homeownership, new study shows
A new federal study demonstrates that about 400,000 young adults struggle with student debt to the extent that they cannot afford a mortgage.