This piece first appeared in Capital and Main. The Social Justice Humanitas Academy is one of a handful of community schools that have been dramatically closing opportunity and achievement gaps in some of Los Angeles’ toughest neighborhoods. Its successes have
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The Los Angeles Dodgers begin their season this week at home against the arch rival San Francisco Giants and I’ll be there rooting for the Dodgers. But as a child, growing up in New Jersey, I rooted for the New
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Absentee Voting by Older White Homeowners Will Disproportionately Impact June Elections Saturday’s March For Our Lives rallies showed that young people are mobilized and enthusiastic about voting in  November. But with Gavin Newsom’s big lead in California’s June primary, millennial
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Boosting Housing Without Patronage and Cronyism San Francisco Assembly member David Chiu is seeking to bring back a version of the Redevelopment Agencies that Governor Brown and the legislature abolished in 2011. Chiu’s Assembly Bill 3037 would raise $1 billion
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As in many cities in Southern California, Pasadena renters face daunting odds. The average rent for a one bedroom unit in Pasadena has risen 51.7% in the past six years, according to the Pasadena Tenants Union (PTU). And 42% of
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(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) New research reveals that 11 percent of 5,000 Disneyland workers surveyed—custodians, food workers, musicians, cashiers, concierges—have been homeless at least once in the past year. It’s the report being read ’round the
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(This piece originally appeared on Streetsblog USA and was cross-posted from the Frontier Group) In Southern California, traffic is the centerpiece of daily life. According to my friend in Los Angeles, her 14-mile commute takes up to three hours of
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