Inequality Insights
Will Trump evict mixed-status families?
Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m CalMatters housing affordability reporter Felicia Mello. One in five California children comes from a mixed-status family, in which at least one member is undocumented, according to the California Immigrant Data Portal. Concern is growing among housing advocates that those families risk losing access to federal housing assistance once President-elect []
What Trump’s border policies mean for California
Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m Wendy Fry. President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on implementing a sweeping border crackdown and undertaking the largest-scale deportation effort in history. If carried out, his proposed initiatives will have profound consequences in California, which shares a 140-mile border with Mexico. On day one, he has pledged to begin a massive []
Which cities might see big changes under Prop 33?
Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m Wendy Fry. Local elected officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles have already shown interest in expanding rent control if Prop 33 passes, opening the door to such moves. CalMatters housing reporter Felicia Mello took a look this week at where the state ballot measure might have the most []
Will Prop 36 mean more deportations?
Good morning, Inequality Insights readers. I’m Wendy Fry. Proposition 36, appearing on California’s 2024 ballot, would reclassify some retail theft and drug crimes as felonies after multiple convictions. It aims to reverse parts of Proposition 47, a 2014 law that reduced such offenses to misdemeanors in an effort to decrease prison overcrowding. Proponents have raised []