Concord City Council is moving to change rent stabilization caps and just cause laws, but landlords and renters disagree on how to move forward.
Category: Reporting
Posted inMi Historia
‘Therapy groups have taught me to value and love myself’
When Nuria Dardón emigrated, she found the psychological help she needed to overcome her traumas and fears, after years of stigma, abuse and domestic violence in Guatemala.
Posted inHealth
California advocates continue the fight for better health data on Indigenous communities
Indigenous communities with roots in Latin America have long gone unrecognized in California government datasets. Here’s what advocates plan to do after the veto on a bill that aimed to change that.
Posted inReporting
‘I’ll never get this time back.’ Bay Area immigrant parents long to reunite with the kids they left behind
From the archives: These Bay Area parents fled their home countries in Central America in the past decade. Years of separation from their children has taken a heavy toll.
Posted inLabor
‘We want a seat at the table’: fast food workers fight for regulations
Two Latina workers from the fast food industry in the Bay Area talk about the precarious working conditions that led them to speak up in favor of the FAST Recovery Act.
Posted inReporting
La búsqueda de indocumentados mayores elegibles para Medi-Cal
Desde 2022 California ha inscrito en Medi-Cal a más de 300,000 inmigrantes mayores que carecen de residencia legal. Pero el estado no sabe cuántos más podrían ser elegibles.
Posted inHealth
Community workers fan out to persuade immigrant seniors to get covered by Medi-Cal
California has enrolled into Medi-Cal more than 300,000 older immigrant lacking legal residency since 2022, but the state doesn’t know how many more might be eligible.
Posted inHousing
Undocumented and unhoused
Evictions went down in California during the pandemic, thanks to an eviction moratorium that protected tenants. But the housing struggles of undocumented communities aren’t being captured by authorities.
Posted inHealth
More Oaklanders left sick and in the dark as COVID surges and county says it can’t keep up
After Maria González got sick, she expected a follow-up call from county health workers. Why didn’t it come?
Posted inReporting
With online schooling, Latino immigrant parents fear their kids are being left behind
A third of OUSD students are English learners. For them and their families, getting a free Chromebook is not enough to bridge the digital divide.