The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on ...

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 ...

Several months after setting up a rental assistance program that’s already brought aid to roughly 200 local households, the Palm Springs City Council unanimously approved another $1 million in funding ...

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 ...

Local public housing authorities were recently warned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of the imminent expiration of the Emergency Housing Voucher program. Here, the Mar Vista ...

Milpitas is launching a rent relief program to help low-income and homeless residents get back on their feet. The city has allocated $700,000 of state funds to provide financial assistance for 140 ...

Thousands will face the risk of eviction as $5 billion rental assistance program runs out of money. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has warned local housing authorities that ...

Cona Ervin and Paula Montgomery both live at the Redwoods Mobile Home Community off Market Street in Redding. They say that ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Trump administration proposes $26.7 billion cut to HUD, impacting Section 8 housing in California. Housing Authority director Stephen Pelz opposes shifting control of ...

In March 2021, the Los Angeles film industry was just beginning to roar back to life after a prolonged COVID-induced slump, but Michael Addis, a freelance filmmaker, was still deep in the hole. For ...

States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and ...

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 ...