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☀️ Good morning! It’s Tuesday, March 25. This is Rob, wishing you a happy National Tolkien Reading Day! And it’s a good day to read outside as Fresno samples a taste of spring weather, with highs in the upper 80s today!
🏠 Fresnoland’s Pablo Orihulea stopped by KVPR’s Central Valley Daily podcast to discuss recent progress in Clovis on the city’s affordable housing front. Pablo’s story kind of flew under the radar when it dropped last week, overshadowed locally by a special election and the long-awaited reopening of Madera’s hospital and nationally by Elon Musk running with scissors through federal relief programs. Pablo pulls back the curtain to show readers how Clovis is poised to change and allow more lower-income residents to move into Fresno County’s least affordable city.
🎙️New this morning — On today’s edition of the Fresnolandia podcast, Dani and Jordan dig into recent headlines and breakdown the latest on Fresno’s still-too-close-to-call-it-over special election. Check out Fresnolandia on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
💸And new this morning — The Fresno City Attorney’s Office says the city needs at least $2 million to keep its Eviction Protection Program alive next year. The program, the last of the city’s COVID-era initiatives protecting renters, nearly collapsed just last month when it ran out of money just about half way through the fiscal year. Finding the money could be a trick as the city also faces a multi-million dollar budget shortfall this summer. Check out the full story below from Pablo and Rob.
Fresno’s last renter protection program seeking at least $2 million next year
A report due out at this week’s Fresno City Council meeting paints a grim picture of the local housing market, where the average monthly cost of rent over the last five years has climbed by a reported 42%. On Thursday, the Fresno City Attorney’s Office is scheduled to present an […]
