The California Dream project is a statewide non-profit media collaboration focused on issues of economic opportunity, quality-of-life, and the future of the California Dream.
Over the next two years, the collaboration will be sharing stories about housing, education, jobs, the wealth gap and more as it presents reporting on radio and television, online and through special programming.
Partner organizations include CalMatters, Capital Public Radio, KPBS, KPCC and KQED.
Share your California dream. On Twitter, use the hashtag #CADream.
June 14, 2018
Amid skyrocketing housing prices and near-record low homeownership rates, the California Housing Finance Agency has quite literally redefined what it means to be “moderate-income” in California.
June 7, 2018
Attending a university in California can be a financial burden beyond the means of many college hopefuls. Rising tuition is compounded by the lack of affordable housing in the state and the high cost of living.
May 31, 2018
The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it's also one of the only affordable neighborhoods left in San Francisco and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.
May 29, 2018
The state’s notoriously high housing costs are gobbling up paychecks, leaving many teetering on the brink of financial disaster.
.jpg&width=480 "Recruiter Matt Stone calls job-seekers from his desk at the Hollywood office of Proven Recruiting, May 1, 2018.")
May 24, 2018
California employers and job recruiters find it tough to lure out-of-state workers at a time when unemployment rates are falling and housing prices are rising.
May 17, 2018
Here’s a tour of what $500,000 gets you around our state — and how cost has shaped where we’re moving.
.jpg&width=480 "Bill Bruick spent his last night homeless in 2013 here, behind a Food 4 Less store in Riverside, April 19, 2018.")
May 10, 2018
According to the the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Southern California city of Riverside is the only one in the state to place all of its veterans in permanent housing.
May 3, 2018
Why are California housing costs so high? At its most basic level, it’s a story of supply and demand — lots of people want to live here, and there aren’t enough homes to go around.
April 18, 2018
The most controversial state housing bill in recent memory died with a pretty resounding thud.
April 12, 2018
A scoop of horchata or matcha green tea would have been all but impossible to find in decades past. Now, they're part of the evolving dream for some California businesses — and the families they serve.
