Posts Tagged: soaring

Reporter’s Notebook: The long journey home from Spain

Bryndon Madison in an airplane restroom on the flight from London to San Fracnisco.

by BRYNDON MADISON posted 03.24.2020

Getting back to California from Europe during a global pandemic was certainly not the way I thought my trip would end.  In January I arrived in Cordoba, Spain, for a two-and-a-half-month  university study-abroad program and that’s where I had been living up until Saturday, March 14. 

Amid crisis, voters will confront housing options

Housing construction at a new California neighborhood.(Photo: Marilyn Volan)

by JESSICA HICE posted 07.11.2018

As California rents and property values continue to rise, it should come as no surprise that three housing-related measures will face voters on the November ballot, targeting veterans’ home loans, local rent control and housing construction for the homeless. Statewide, the average rent on a one-bedroom apartment is about $1,400, and a home costs $440,000 — far more than double the national average of $180,000.