Sacramento RegionThey slept outside Sacramento City Hall for safety. Now it will be banned.July 30, 2025 | Tony RodriguezSacramento banned overnight camping outside City Hall, ending a six-year exemption. Unhoused residents say it was one of the last safe and well-lit places to sleep.
Sacramento RegionSacramento anti-poverty crusader Faye Wilson Kennedy continues the fight despite setbacksJuly 30, 2025 | Chris NicholsFaye Wilson Kennedy returned to advocating for Sacramento’s poor and unhoused after battling cancer during the pandemic. Her work is more relevant today given federal cuts to safety net programs.
Housing and HomelessnessNew affordable housing for seniors coming to Oak ParkJuly 15, 2025 | Keyshawn DavisThe City of Sacramento approved $1.25 million in funding for a new senior affordable housing complex called Donner Field Senior Apartments in Oak Park. Construction is expected to be completed by 2027.
Housing and HomelessnessCalifornia, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agencyJuly 14, 2025Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart, the reorg is supposed to simplify the state’s snarled affordable housing financing system.
Sacramento RegionSacramento may ban camping outside of City Hall, sparking criticismJuly 9, 2025 | Tony RodriguezSacramento may soon ban camping outside City Hall. Unhoused residents say it’s one of the few safe places left. A final vote is set for July 22.
Housing and HomelessnessSacramento Valley Tenants Union’s Daniela Harvey on the power of collective action for tenant rightsJune 30, 2025The Sacramento Valley Tenants Union is helping tenants to know their rights and form associations around common fights. The organization hosts workshops twice a month where people can get their questions answered.
Sacramento RegionPetition threatens Sacramento’s Railyards stadium deal weeks after council approvalJune 27, 2025 | Tony Rodriguez | Tyler WebbA union-led petition challenges Sacramento’s $92M Railyards plan, raising concerns over luxury housing and threatening delays to the downtown stadium project.
Housing and HomelessnessHow gentrification is killing the bus: California’s rising rents are pushing out commutersMay 29, 2025Across Los Angeles, rent hikes have led to fewer bus and train riders in an example of how California’s housing crisis is also making its transit crisis harder to solve.
Housing and HomelessnessGovernor Newsom spars with local leaders over California’s homelessness fundingMay 29, 2025 | Laura FitzgeraldAs the state grapples with homelessness, tensions are hitting a high point between Newsom and municipal leaders on funding solutions. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Housing and HomelessnessSacramento’s retail and restaurant workers can’t afford the city’s rent. R Street housing community aims to change thatMay 14, 2025 | Tony Rodriguez | Chris NicholsThe Monarch housing complex is being built on excess state land, part of the governor’s push to convert underused government properties into housing.
