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Chris Nichols

Homelessness and Housing Affordability reporter

Chris covers homelessness and housing affordability across the Sacramento region with a focus on the local and statewide policies that shape these topics. Previously, Chris led CapRadio’s fact-checking initiative PolitiFact California, debunking misinformation throughout the Golden State. 

Earlier in his career, Chris spent a dozen years writing about government and politics at newspapers across California. He covered the Capitol for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Before that, he worked as a news reporter at the North County Times in Escondido, the Lodi News-Sentinel and the Sonora Union-Democrat.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and later his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Chris is cautiously optimistic that his hometown San Diego Padres will someday be World Champions, but he’s not holding his breath.

 

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    Stories by Chris Nichols

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    Newsom administration to provide 1,200 tiny homes statewide, including 350 for the Sacramento region

    March 16, 2023

    Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off a four-day “state of the state” tour across California in Sacramento on Thursday by announcing plans for the tiny homes.

  • Chris Nichols / CapRadio

    Sacramento is exploring a vacancy tax on empty lots, storefronts and possibly even homes

    March 13, 2023

    Officials say the tax could help revitalize stretches of the city where stores or homes have sat empty for years, including blighted commercial corridors like K Street in downtown.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Tiny home village sits empty as delays, costs mount for Sacramento homelessness project

    March 2, 2023

    County officials say the Safe Stay Community will be a new model for sanctioned encampments when it opens.

  • Chris Nichols / CapRadio

    California tripled its spending on Sacramento’s homelessness crisis. Here’s where the money went.

    February 27, 2023

    Affordable housing accounts for the largest increase in the region’s allocated funding for homelessness.

  • Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio

    Sacramento and Placer are ‘prohousing,’ according to the state, but what does that designation actually mean?

    February 21, 2023

    The two counties have streamlined their housing development processes, making it easier, faster and cheaper to build more apartments, duplexes and homes for all income levels.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Sacramento will reopen Miller Park homeless safe ground with 15 travel trailers

    February 15, 2023

    In what might be viewed as a reversal, the city of Sacramento said this week it will reopen the Miller Park safe ground for unhoused residents, using 15 travel trailers as shelter.

  • Chris Nichols / CapRadio

    Paul’s Place provides ‘path forward’ for unhoused residents in Davis

    February 8, 2023

    Officials celebrated the opening of Paul’s Place in Davis this week. The 4-story building includes a homeless resource center, emergency shelter beds and permanent housing.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    California announces plan to convert 3 office buildings in downtown Sacramento into housing

    January 31, 2023

    Organizations working out of these offices will be relocated by 2025, and the buildings will be turned into “transit-oriented affordable housing,” state officials said.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Republican plan would outlaw homeless camps near California schools or parks

    January 26, 2023

    Sacramento, Elk Grove and Los Angeles passed similar encampment bans last year, despite opposition from advocates who say they harm unhoused residents by separating them from resources.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Q&A: Outgoing leader of Sacramento Housing Alliance says regional approach needed to tackle affordable housing crisis

    January 19, 2023

    Kendra Lewis served as executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance over the past two years. She recently accepted a position at the Sierra Health Foundation.

 

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