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Some state lawmakers are recommending that $3 billion be included permanently in the state budget to be spent on affordable housing and reducing homelessness. More than two dozen assembly members and senators have signed a letter supporting the League of California Cities’ request for that funding, according to a statement …

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation meant to restrict the growth of California’s gaming industry for the next 20 years. Assembly Bill 341, which Newsom signed into law May 21, returns provisions sponsored by the cardroom industry in the 1997 Gambling Control Act which kept California from issuing new cardroom …

Riverside has won a major battle in its lawsuit with the state involving the city’s former redevelopment agency.    A Sacramento Superior Court Judge ruled that city should be repaid for the $18.5 million in loans it made to the former agency, according to a published report.   That ruling, …