- Build Back Better will not pass the Senate this year. Maybe in the Spring.
- The San Francisco Metro Area is once again the costliest place to live in the United States.
- Relatedly, the region is still hemorrhaging people to other, less expensive areas. (Same with California as a whole.)
- As a result, Richard Florida says the Bay Area “faces significant headwinds.”
- Also related: Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions?
- Following some aggressive encampment sweeps, Sacramento’s city council passed a resolution promising an effort to identify some safe parking sites and more transparency on future enforcement actions.
- Speaking of enforcement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants more police in the Tenderloin.
- Sacramento will maintain its Roomkey sites through at least March.
- Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is asking more Oakland landlords to stop discriminating against prospective Section 8 tenants.
- Los Angeles’s homeless population is being disproportionately affected by the city’s rising homicide rate.
- And the heavy rainfall we’re seeing in Northern California poses pronounced risks for some homeless communities.
- Mortality among the Los Angeles homeless population increased between 2015 and 2019.
- San Jose is trying to make it easier to build affordable housing—and more housing in general.