Months ago, legislators approved several layers of protections to keep renters from being kicked out and potentially made homeless during a pandemic. Now, several of those protections are expiring, though there are efforts under way to extend them and Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he supports an extension.
Category: Public Housing in Private Hands
With the pandemic raging, the Public Press is focusing on the most vulnerable renters in the nation’s most expensive housing markets. People living in subsidized housing risk of eviction and displacement. The reporting explores poor living conditions in public housing developments and the decisions made by public officials and private housing development companies. Stories also examine the limits of local and state eviction moratoria. The reporting team includes reporter Nina Sparling, data journalist Frank Bass and research assistants Ande Richards and Imran Ali Malik, who are students at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program.