…and official counts like the census to track. As home bidding wars rage on, would-be renters in Santa Cruz post on Craigslist about doing “the parking lot shuffle” while living…
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Santa Clara County opens school clinics to vaccinate children ages 5-11 in impacted neighborhoods
…COVID-19 transmission and low community vaccination rates were prioritized and determined through Census tract data. Before mobile clinics come to campuses, parents will be given packets of information detailing what…
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San Francisco sees decrease in people living on streets amid overall rise in homelessness
…counts, are generally taken at the beginning of the year and are a snapshot census taken in one day of a county’s unhoused population. Breed is attributing the downward trend…
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For many Californians, the COVID-19 pandemic marks the end of ‘barely making it’
…also has the highest poverty rate: 17.2% when adjusted for the cost of living, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau analysis. Even with a $66,129 salary, Rivas couldn’t make…
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As pandemic aid ends, some families face brutal new year
…lifts, meaning people who have been paying less than 25% of their rent after Sept. 1 can be evicted for non-payment. A separate analysis of U.S. Census Bureau survey data…
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Santa Clara County redrawing supervisor districts, hosts online meeting Saturday
…the virtual meeting Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. After every decennial census, the county draws new supervisorial district lines based on the updated data collected and asks people to for…
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Monica Nino to become first woman to serve as Contra Costa County administrator
…of Equalization districts that figure to change based on information gathered in the 2020 Census. Twa figures to work remotely sometimes from Minnesota and sometimes in Contra Costa, Andersen said….
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Sonoma County hopes a planned affordable housing project will help retain teachers
…company. According to 2020 Census data, the median income in the county is $86,173. “No one wins when local teachers have to commute from miles and miles away. It’s just…
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For the Culture Market spotlights Black women-owned businesses this holiday season
…between July and September of 2020 grew more than 30% compared to the same period last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As the pandemic continues, online shopping is…
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Coronavirus wipes away recent wage gains for many California workers, report finds
…estimates replicate the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for safety net benefits and the cost of living, unlike the Official Poverty Measure. It’s a measure that…