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Manuela Tobias

Housing Reporter

Manuela is our former Housing Reporter whose stories focused on the political dynamics and economic and racial inequities that contribute to the housing crisis in California and its potential solutions. Manuela previously covered income inequality and survival at The Fresno Bee for the California Divide. She is a former staff writer for PolitiFact and has interned at Politico Magazine, New York Magazine and The New Yorker. Originally from Buenos Aires, she has lived in Latin America, Europe and across the United States. She has a B.A. in comparative literature from Georgetown University.

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An abandoned strip mall in central Fresno on Aug. 25, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local
New housing construction in the Crocker Village neighborhood in Sacramento on Feb. 10, 2022. Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters
Housing voucher recipient Mitchell Friedeck stands in the entrance to the two-bedroom apartment where he lives with his three children in Nipomo, an unincorporated town in San Luis Obispo County, on Aug. 2, 2022. Photo by Julie Leopo for CalMatters