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FILE – A crowd listens to speakers at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco on March 14, 2023. Economists for a California reparations task force estimate the state owes Black residents at least $800 billion for harms in policing, housing and health. The preliminary estimate will be discussed at the Wednesday, March 29, 2023, meeting of the state reparations task force. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Reparations being considered for Black Californians could cost the state more than $800 billion, economists say

By Janie Har and The Associated Press

San Francisco reparations

Reparations: San Francisco could pay $5 million to each of its Black residents

By Janie Har and The Associated Press

Killer robots

Police can now legally use killer robots and they’ve already deployed them a few times

By Janie Har, Claudia Lauer, and others

FILE – San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott answers questions during a news conference in San Francisco, on May 21, 2019. The Democratic San Francisco Board of Supervisors could allow police to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations. The 11-member board will vote Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, on a controversial proposal opposed by civil rights advocates critical of the militarization of police. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

San Francisco police will now be allowed to deploy robots that can kill you

By Janie Har and The Associated Press

FILE – Rent control advocates for Orange County demonstrate in front of the Florida Realtors office building on Oct. 22, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Ballot measures to build more affordable housing and protect tenants from soaring rent increases were plentiful and fared well in last week’s midterm elections. The activity reflected growing angst over record high rents exacerbated by inflation and a dearth of homes. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Rent controls and affordable housing initiatives were big winners in the 2022 midterms

By Janie Har and The Associated Press

Kim Carlson poses for a photograph at her apartment at the Delta Pines apartment complex, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, in Antioch, Calif. Despite a landmark renter protection law approved by California legislators in 2019, tenants across the country’s most populous state are taking to ballot boxes and city councils to demand even more safeguards. They want to crack down on tenant harassment, shoddy living conditions and unresponsive landlords that are usually faceless corporations. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

California tenants are fighting rent increases and want a crackdown on bad landlords: ‘My babies don’t feel safe’

By Janie Har and The Associated Press

Yes on Measure H! volunteer Ed Washatka canvases the neighborhood in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. Cities across the country are pushing measures to stabilize or control rents when housing prices are skyrocketing. Voters from Orange County, Florida, and in several California cities are asking voters to approve ballot measures that would cap rent increases. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Skyrocketing housing costs put rent control on the November ballot across the U.S.

By Janie Har, Michael Casey, and others