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It’s Tuesday. So far this week, my colleagues have reported on why the ShakeAlertLA app didn’t notify Angelenos about the two big quakes that jolted Southern California and how Representative Eric Swalwell became the first Democrat to drop out of the presidential race while the billionaire Tom Steyer jumped in.

The Los Angeles Times published a sweeping — if grim — project examining the effects of a rising sea on California’s cherished coastline.

But today, I’m going to dig into what Californians say is the state’s most urgent and thorny problem: the housing crisis, which lawmakers are set to discuss this afternoon when they take up Assembly Bill 1482. I wrote about whom it could leave out:

Audrey Jenkins’s apartment isn’t fancy or large. Though she’s had mold and leaks, her place is tidy and packed with almost two decades’ worth of mementos from a full life.

When I visited earlier this year, she was proud to show off her latest project: a huge family quilt, one person per square, tracing her lineage back to 1841. Also close at hand was a poster board-size “Thank you” card from the preschoolers she taught at the nearby Y.M.C.A. until she retired two years ago.