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Using credit cards to pay rent: What new survey data shows

Housing is typically thought of as a fixed, non-negotiable bill, the one expense that gets paid before anything else. New survey data suggests that for a meaningful share of Americans, it isn’t being paid outright at all. It’s being financed. In a 2026 survey of 2,000 U.S. adults with at least $10,000 in unsecured debt,

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Seeking reelection, L.A. Mayor Bass calls herself 'an activist fighting for change'In an interview with The Times, Mayor Karen Bass talked about her response to the Palisades fire, police hiring, her management style at City Hall and her biggest mistake as mayor.

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The poorest in the US can't find housing even as low-income units sit emptyThe poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortage of affordable homes. That’s partly because the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years has been for those earning at least 50% of an area’s median income. Now, some cities are seeing an uptick in vacancies in these units as their rents approach those of market-rate apartments. As…

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SC law needs clarity on when apartments get a tax breakSouth Carolina lawmakers must revisit a 2020 loophole that allowed private apartment owners to remove entire complexes from the tax rolls in return for little to no public benefit.

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LA homelessness fraud cases expose deeper problem than stolen millions, oversight hawk warnsRep. Michael Cloud says Los Angeles homelessness fraud cases expose a funding system that rewards program managers while keeping people in dependency.

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Rep Cloud says LA homelessness funding rewards programs, not peopleFederal fraud charges alleging millions siphoned from Los Angeles homelessness programs expose deeper failures in oversight and how taxpayer dollars fund homeless services.

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Lawmakers roll out policy agenda they hope survives no matter who wins control of Congress

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San Jose has seen some success with homelessness. Can San Diego learn from it?A year ago, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan told attendees at the third annual End Homelessness Summit that his city would build around 1,000 temporary units and get at least 50% of its homeless population housed. At the fourth annual End Homelessness Summit held Wednesday at the Carlsbad City Library, Mahan said that in the past 18 months, San Jose reduced…

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Fugitives, sex offenders among 491 arrested in HUD public housing fraud crackdownOfficials say the agency now wants to know who lives in every HUD-funded home, and investigations are not over.

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First initiative qualifies for the 2028 ballot in CaliforniaAn initiative to establish a first-time homebuyer down payment loan program for University of California staff qualified for the Nov. 7, 2028 ballot in California. The measure, sponsored by AFSCME 3299, would require the University of California system to establish a down-payment loan program for support staff who have worked for UC for at least […]

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Healthcare’s Economic Risk Is Too Big to Ignore: Jonathan LevinConsumer confidence is collapsing, hiring is weak and the housing market is largely frozen. All of which serves to underscore that the US economy is only holding up because of the boom in artificial intelligence and an aging population spending ever more on healthcare. Although the former seems to garner all the attention these days, the latter is…

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