Developer seeking $30 million in tax subsidies evicts single mother during pandemic
St. Anton Capital is on track to get subsidies for its Natomas apartments, but advocates say it’s using an eviction moratorium loophole to put a…
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Big challenges for Sacramento County
The newly elected supervisor will have a big say on county priorities As I write this column on Nov. 6, I do not know who…
Letters: Election, endorsements, rent control
Protect tenants Re: “Measure C will keep city affordable” by Anthony Lew, Terry Schanz and Katie Valenzuela (Essay, Oct. 13): 100% agree. It will keep…
Measure C will worsen housing crisis
Essay: Sacramento’s rent control initiative is flawed, costly and illegal By Cassandra Jennings, Bob Ward and Mallori Spilker Low- and middle-income families, students, seniors, veterans—struggling…
Measure C will keep city affordable
Essay: Sacramento’s rent control initiative is proven, effective and essential By Anthony Lew, Terry Schanz and Katie Valenzuela On Nov. 3, Sacramento has a decision…
Help decide Sacramento’s future
SN&R’s recommendations in key contests on Nov. 3 ballot Here are the endorsements from SN&R’s editorial staff, focusing on the most important local contests where…
The desperate hour
Hundreds arrive at Capitol demanding lawmakers prevent eviction nightmare By Scott Thomas Anderson Fearing that California’s powerful real estate and banking lobbies will stop lawmakers…
Political battles converge in Sacramento as eviction avalanche looms
While city voters will get to vote on rent control, deferred rent and mortgages in the hands of the state lawmakers By Scott Thomas Anderson…
A matter of life and death
Essay: A call for racial equity and money as more homeless people are dying on Sacramento’s streets By Bob Erlenbusch The Sacramento Regional Coalition to…
Sacramento tries to bolster Section 8 housing with new CARES Act money
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency is working against the clock to try to use federal COVID-19 relief to fix a…
Sounding the alarm
Virtual town halls educate and empower the black community during the pandemic By Faye Wilson Kennedy and Kevin Carter In March, we began distributing food,…
Essay: A powerful sisterhood
Women in the Legislature are leading the way to help California families By Toni G. Atkins Former President Barack Obama said something in December that…
Editor’s note: Out of step on housing?
A ‘transformational’ Sacramento affordable housing project isn’t quick or cheap When it opens, Mirasol Village in Sacramento’s River District will not be your grandfather’s public…
Essay: A Bay Area refugee’s plea
Sacramento, please don’t become another San Francisco By Meaghan Douglas A while ago, while driving on I-80, another driver cut me off. “Must be from…
Essay: Tax cut worsens housing crisis
The 2017 GOP tax bill undercut a key program By Roberto Jimenez At the worst time for working families, the homeless, disabled veterans, farm workers…