Erin Baldassari
KQED Staff WriterErin Baldassari covers housing for KQED. She's a former print journalist making her first foray into radio. Erin most recently worked as the transportation reporter for the Mercury News and East Bay Times with a focus on how the Bay Area’s housing shortage has changed the way people move around the region. She also served on the East Bay Times’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for coverage of the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland. Prior to that, Erin worked as a breaking news and general assignment reporter for a variety of outlets in the Bay Area and the greater Boston area. A Tufts University alumna, Erin grew up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains and in Sonoma County. She is a life-long KQED listener, a rider of motorcycles and a lover of history.
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In less than a year, California's Homekey program created nearly 6,000 units of housing for people experiencing homelessness — the state's largest-ever expansion of homeless housing in a single year. But supporters are wondering if can be sustained. -
By allowing multi-family housing, proponents across the state say the move could lower housing costs and redress decades of racial segregation.
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When the coronavirus hit, thousands of unsheltered people in the state were moved into hotels under a plan known as "Project Roomkey." Now many are ending up back on the street.
