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Cal Heights’ historic home tour returns
The California Heights Neighborhood Association’s Home Tour is returning for the first time since the pandemic, and is…
Cal Heights residents invited to community meeting on proposed affordable housing project
A new affordable housing development may be coming to the Cal Heights neighborhood, and the local community is…
Property owner and manager PACs that donated to each LB city councilmember
These four PACs spent over $7,000 on city councilmembers’ most recent campaigns. Each election season, city council candidates…
Pulverizing property taxes since 1978: The history of Proposition 13 and its modern-day impact
The passage of Proposition 13 in California on June 6, 1978 presented an enticing new landscape for homeowners…
Long Beach hopes to open youth-only homeless shelter in early 2025
Long Beach announced the beginning of its youth-focused homeless shelter Tuesday morning, for people between the ages of…
LiBRE is paving the road for Long Beach’s first community land trust. Here’s what that means.
Local nonprofit LiBRE will begin hosting meetings to spread the word about Long Beach’s community land trust in…
Long Beach seeks volunteers for the 2024 Homeless Point in Time Count
The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services is seeking 300 volunteers to help conduct the 2024…
Long Beach will host virtual meeting on ‘tiny homes’ on Oct. 30
What are tiny homes, why does Long Beach want them and where will they be? Residents can learn…
Long Beach amends Housing Trust Fund to qualify for state grants
The changes incentivize the City to prioritize low-income and extremely low-income households. In an effort to increase its…
Long Beach grants LiBRE nonprofit with Community Land Trust
Long Beach City Council awarded a contract to fiscal sponsor Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs to establish and operate…