As they have every year for the past decade, San Diego’s minimum-wage workers will be getting a cost-of-living pay hike the first of the year, even as thousands of others employed in some of ...

If you’ve been frustrated with the lack of affordable housing options available in the market, are considering radically downsizing for retirement or other reasons, or simply want to live more ...

A new report by United Ways of California reveals that a family of four needs $116,036 annually to cover the 'real cost' of living in San Diego County, but despite this six-figure sum, many families ...

The city of San Diego’s nearly 3-year-old ordinance regulating homeless encampments appears to have helped move people off ...

This column was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Forty years ago, I wrote a series of 14 articles for the Sacramento Bee describing major economic, social, cultural ...

On Tuesday morning, Margo Velez walks through a Mission Valley shopping center. It's one she knows well because she, along with her two teenage daughters, used to sleep in the car on the adjacent ...

Over the last year, KPBS has been talking to community members and listening to their concerns through an initiative called KPBS Listens. Many of you pointed to the same issue: the high cost of living ...

Even the sunshine isn’t free in San Diego — it comes with the hefty price tag attached to life in a place with ample sun and waves all year round. The ballooning cost of living in America’s Finest ...

A major piece of housing legislation cleared a big hurdle last week by winning approval in the California Senate. The bill, SB 79, would legalize apartments within a half mile of public transit ...

Even a $100,000 salary barely goes the distance in San Francisco and Oakland, where steep taxes and soaring housing costs have gutted the buying power of Californians. California dominates the bottom ...

A new report by United Ways of California reveals that a family of four needs $116,036 annually to cover the “real cost” of living in San Diego County. Despite the six-figure sum, Pamela Gray Payton ...