The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on ...

News of the imminent expiration of the Emergency Housing Voucher program came in a March 6 letter the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent to local public housing authorities, the ...

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A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 ...

Local public housing authorities were recently warned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of the imminent expiration of the Emergency Housing Voucher program. Here, the Mar Vista ...

The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired ...

Unlike Social Security, Medicare and the program formerly known as “food stamps,” which have automatic funding sources, the much smaller Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and ...

New York City’s last remaining "migrant hotel" will soon cease to be an emergency shelter, following the Trump administration’s border crackdown that eased pressure on Texas – which had previously ...