AppFolio cuts jobs to address profitability concerns, stock gains 10%
Santa Barbara-based AppFolio has seen its shares rise as much as 12.6% in the days since the company announced it would be laying off 9% of its workforce on Aug. 17. Shane Trigg, the company’s CEO recently hired in March, wrote in a letter sent out to employees on Aug.17 that it would be cutting Read More →
Federal funding allocated to disaster recovery efforts
The Central Coast will receive a financial boost to its disaster recovery efforts, after the federal government announced it would be allocating $115 million to the state of California on Aug. 25. That money is to aid recovery efforts brought upon by the storms that ravaged the Central Coast in January. Secretary of Housing and Read More →
Opinion: Today’s housing market devastates working families
By Pedro A. Chavez It seems the perfect storm has hit the housing market and its impact is devasting working families seeking access to the American dream of homeownership. How did we get here you ask? During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the Federal Reserve react by lowering interest rates to historic lows to prevent Read More →
CRE: Housing Trust Fund Ventura County receives $1.5M from MB&T
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Dubroff: Reopening State Street has positives, but more headaches remain for city officials
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Portfolio watch
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Opinion: It’s Women’s Equality Day for some of us
By Lois Phillips On Women’s Equality Day, it would behoove women and men to understand and fully appreciate how long it took for women to advance into leadership roles across sectors. Even now, however, there remains work to be done. For a quick reminder, in 1848 the Women’s Rights Convention occurred in Seneca Falls to Read More →
