#gimme-shelter

#gimme-shelter

Last month, Golden State Warriors basketball star Steph Curry asked town leaders where he lives in Atherton to help him play zone defense.Curry was objecting to a plan to build up to 16 townhomes on a property near his mansion in the Silicon Valley enclave."We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' [literally] rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting," Curry and his wife Ayesha wrote to Atherton officials on Jan. 18.

Many homeless Californians have significant chronic health problems.But comparatively few receive the healthcare they need.The latest estimate of California's homeless population tops 173,000, but less than one-third who are enrolled in the state's healthcare program for low-income residents have ever seen a primary care doctor.

This year was full of crazy California housing stories.The city of Fresno put up banners celebrating a claim that it had the "hottest real estate market in the U.S." - a line from a Times article about how longtime residents could no longer afford to live there.A venture capital titan promoted mass home building to solve the nation's problems, but opposed the construction of apartments in his hometown.

Matthew Chin is a third-year environmental studies student at UC Santa Cruz.Because housing near campus is so expensive, he lives in a used trailer that he parks in a driveway - a driveway he rents for $750 a month.Chin's precarious living situation is far from unique among college students across the state.

Gov. Gavin Newsom came into office four years ago with some of the biggest promises on housing imaginable.The state would build 3.5 million new homes by 2025, a quintupling of California's average annual housing production.And his effort to address the state's housing affordability crisis would be akin to the "Marshall Plan," the U.S.' multibillion-dollar campaign to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.

Later this year, Los Angeles and seven other counties will inaugurate Gov. Gavin Newsom's new plan to address severe mental illness by compelling treatment for people who are in serious crisis - one of his signature efforts to fight homelessness.On this episode of " Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast," we discuss how the program, known as CARE Court, is supposed to work, how it may affect the homeless population, and concerns from civil rights activists about its operation.