California

As private insurance companies retreat in states hit by climate-fueled disasters, safety net insurance plans are left to fill the gap.

With climate change hiking insurer costs, the state may allow catastrophe modeling as a stopgap, says former Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

A bill in the California legislature would make the state the first in the nation to offer what's already law in France and about a dozen other countries.

As Californians deal with rising rents and a housing shortage, one group of mobile home park residents in Fresno County secured affordable housing for themselves by purchasing the land from the park’s corporate landlord.

Fixit Clinics and other groups have formed communities devoted to reducing waste and costs by fixing broken devices.

It's not the only state with a problem.

The eligibility expansion benefits the immigrants but may also bring savings to the entire system.

Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.

Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.

After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.