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Encinitas Loses Fight Against City Hall On Becoming a Squatters Paradise

January 25, 2020 8:49 amJanuary 25, 2020 9:01 am

Although The HEAP Grant is worth $256,369, only $12,208 will go directly toward the homeless. The remainder goes towards operating costs and salaries. A coalition of concerned residents in Encinitas, a small coastal town in San Diego County, are nursing...

Feds Stepping in on California’s Homeless Crisis

January 25, 2020 8:10 amJanuary 26, 2020 4:23 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Friday that he and the federal government have reached a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city’s homelessness crisis by erecting temporary shelters. There has been...

2020 March Primary Preview: 7th State Senate District

January 24, 2020 7:20 amJanuary 30, 2020 8:39 am

The 7th Senate District: The 7th Senate District is just east of the East Bay. Largely suburban and wealthy, the district has a part of Alameda County combined with the majority of Contra Costa County. The district is also solidly...

Adverse Possession and Squatters Rights

January 23, 2020 3:11 pmJanuary 23, 2020 5:47 pm

In “Natomas Development,” an article in the January N Magazine, Sacramento city councilman Steve Hansen noted “challenges” for the River Oak community working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on levee improvements scheduled to continue for a few more...

2020 March Primary Preview: Pasadena Mayoral Election

January 23, 2020 7:11 amJanuary 30, 2020 8:48 am

The Pasadena Mayoral Race: Pasadena, which sits Northeast of Los Angeles and to the west of Glendale and Burbank, is something at a crossroads coming into the 2020’s. The city has both been building several new large housing complexes even...

Criminal Background Checks on Rental Applicants Now Illegal in Oakland

January 22, 2020 4:37 pmJanuary 23, 2020 5:08 pm

On Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council passed the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance, making criminal background checks on potential tenants in private and public housing illegal within the city. The decision by the City Council was immediately praised by housing...

Crystal Geyser Found Guilty Of Dumping Arsenic Into California‘s Waterways

January 22, 2020 6:43 amJanuary 22, 2020 12:55 pm

On January 9, the company that bottles Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water pled guilty to two felonies in U.S. District Court. According to the U.S. District Attorneys office the corporation, pled guilty to one count of unlawful storage of...