By TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN | Associated Press/Report for America
California is home to 171,000 homeless people — about 30% of all homeless people in the U.S. The crisis has sparked a movement among religious institutions, dubbed “yes in God’s backyard,” or “YIGBY,” in cities across the state, with a number of projects already in the works. “If only a small fraction of them chose to build very small amount of units, we could start picking away at this issue one church at a time, one educational institution at a time,” she said Thursday.
The Legislature passed a bill to ensure school curricula reflect the cultural and racial diversity of California and the U.S.