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A place to call home: Germany’s housing crisis is hitting refugees hardest. By the end of 2016 nearly 5.2 million refugees had arrived on Europe’s shores from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Nearly one million of those sought asylum in Germany, and Berlin alone sometimes received over 10,000 refugees in a single month.
Liccardo Says Congress Not Doing Enough To Fix Housing Crisis
18 hours ago · Fixing the nation’s housing shortage can no longer be left to local governments alone and Congress must offer more robust solutions to the problem, Sam Liccardo, the former San Jose Mayor running to represent California’s 16th district, said in an interview with Peninsula Press. In the interview, Liccardo also advocated for AI regulation, gun laws and reproductive health protections that ...
Tree shortage leaves East Palo susceptible to climate change
Dec 14, 2021 · Palo Alto, a city with a median annual income of $158,000, has tree canopy coverage as high as 25% in some neighborhoods, according to the Healthy Places Index. Trees occupy a fourth of the land within the city. Adjacent East Palo Alto, where three in four residents are either Black or Latino, has a median income of $67,000. HPI shows one neighborhood with canopy coverage of 12%. The rest have 6%.
COVID-19, other threats continue to hit California farmworkers
Oct 19, 2021 · 6. Peninsula Press · COVID-19, other threats continue to hit California farmworkers. According to a report that looked at coronavirus outbreaks among farmworkers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, 13% of the 1,091 Salina Valley agricultural laborers enrolled in the study tested positive for ...
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Cities like San Francisco Under Pressure from California AG to …
Nov 11, 2021 · With an estimated 150,000 homeless Californians and another 700,000 facing evictions, the state’s homelessness crisis is worsening and the need for safe shelter growing.
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Law meant to help students leaves many grumbling about school …
Nov 29, 2022 · California legislators thought they had a sure-fire winner in Senate Bill 328. What teenager wouldn’t want to get a little more sleep? But four months after the state implemented a law built on the belief that later school start times would help sleep-deprived students, there’s a lot of grumbling at two San Mateo County
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Environment, News / By Özge Terzioğlu. SAN FRANCISCO — The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a revised proposal to the net energy metering solar tariff. If approved, Californians who install rooftop solar after April 15, 2023 would receive 75% less in credit payments from utility companies than residents who have solar now.
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The Hofionis are among hundreds of Afghans who have arrived in the Bay Area since August. When they first landed in California, they were greeted by resettlement agencies, non-profits and the county government, all of whom tried to help them do the nearly impossible: find an affordable home in one of the country’s most expensive housing markets.