November 03, 2022

New data show more than 104,000 New York City students experienced homelessness during the previous school year. As the city struggles to tackle long-standing issues facing students experiencing homelessness, they will also have to address the influx of more than 6,000 new students, most of whom are recently arrived migrant children living in shelters.  

Most people living in Austin, Texas, rent their homes. Last week, the city council passed two ordinances to support them. The first requires landlords who own five or more homes to give tenants more time to either pay rent or fix a lease violation. The second establishes tenants' right to organize.

Natural gas heats 70 percent of Colorado’s homes, but state utility regulators are considering a proposal that would eliminate subsidies for new hookups. Opponents, including the state’s largest utility companies and housing developers, say the proposal could raise already high home and utilities prices. But some environmental groups say rising energy costs are more concerning.

A new study by University of California, Irvine found nearly 1 million people live in areas that could be threatened by an extreme flood in the Los Angeles Basin. The study also found that Asian, Black, and Latinx residents were more likely than white residents to be exposed to extreme flooding. “It… makes sense to alert high risk neighborhoods to begin raising electrical outlets and taking steps to prevent floodwater from disintegrating dry wall,” said Jochen Schubert, a research specialist at UC Irvine.