Amanda sobbed in court after her attempt to reverse her eviction failed. "Where am I supposed to go?" she cried out to Fresno County Superior Court Judge Mark Cullers. Cullers, who presides over eviction cases once a week from his fourth-floor courtroom at the B.F. Sisk Courthouse in Fresno, offered...
How California Renters Are Bracing for an Eviction Tsunami
Two million Californians could be forced from their rental homes early next year, and the bad omens are happening now, all around them. They’re in the credit card bills they stack in a corner, the personal relationships they test by borrowing money, the hours waiting on the phone hoping to...
Eviction Deal Extends California Protections Into 2021
SACRAMENTO — Californians who can't pay rent because of the coronavirus could stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31, but only if they pay a portion of some missed payments under a proposal endorsed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders. The California court system has...
California Housing Crisis Mystery: Rents Way up, Eviction Filings Way Down
Shirley Gibson isn’t quite sure how to feel about these numbers. As directing attorney of the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County — which offers legal services to low-income tenants caught between the preposterously priced southern suburbs of San Francisco and the preposterously priced suburbs of Silicon Valley —...
Meet California's Most Unlikely Philanthropist: 18-Year-Old Fabiola
This spring — as federal prosecutors announced charges against wealthy Californians, who paid bribes to get their kids into elite universities — a poor kid from a poor California town faced her own dilemma: How could she help others go to college? Fabiola Moreno Ruelas, an 18-year-old from the Salinas...