Cash for your backyard? Companies, homeowners try to capitalize on a California law.


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@Marketplace— Housing shortage-plagued California recently started allowing property owners to split their lots and have developers build new homes there.

Zero Hedge—California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger. California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger America's largest and, for some owners, only option for a home insurer is pulling back its operations in the state of California, leaving many with no more options to secure their property's value amid wildfire danger in the state reaching new heights. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, after saying in May of last year that it wasn't giving out any new California contracts, news broke in March that 72,000 State Farm...

Southern California Public Radio—Your Guide To Following California’s 'Compost' Law. We’re two years into a state law that requires us to keep food waste out of the trash. It’s anything but straightforward, but here is how to do it right.

Los Angeles Times—California is trying again to extend unemployment benefits to workers on strike. Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the proposal, lawmakers in Sacramento are trying again to extend unemployment benefits to California workers who are on strike. Under Senate Bill 1116, introduced by State Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) and State Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), California workers would be eligible to receive unemployment benefits after being on strike for 14 days. "No one goes on strike because they want to go on strike," Portantino said at a news conference...