Nearly 13,000 homes were lost in the Palisades and Eaton fires. The permits, the payouts, and the lawsuits now tell a clearer story than the headlines do. By Jose Navarro, […]
CALIFORNIA’S INSURER OF LAST RESORT RAISES RATES 29 PERCENT: WHO PAYS, AND FOR WHAT
The FAIR Plan grew 44 percent in a year and its exposure tripled. A rate hike was coming. The question is whether the numbers behind it, and the claims record […]
One Vote, Six Changes: What Los Angeles Voters Are Being Asked to Approve in Measure LA
By Jose Navarro, MBA Mail ballots go out to Los Angeles voters this week, and Measure LA asks for one yes-or-no vote on six separate charter changes. Some are overdue. […]
The $25 Billion Question on California’s Ballot: Who Eats the Losses on Prop 37?
By Jose Navarro, MBA Mail ballots go out to California voters this week, and Proposition 37 asks voters to authorize up to $25 billion in revenue bonds to fund second […]
From Soap Opera Screen to Shelter: Reimagining LA’s Historic General Hospital
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA Navarro Report For decades, millions of television viewers across America knew the imposing 19-story Art Deco complex overlooking East Los Angeles as the fictional sanctuary […]
A Health Care Tax With No Lockbox: What LA County’s Measure ER Really Promises
By Jose Navarro, MBA | Financial Controller & Public Policy Analyst | San Diego, CA September 30, 2026 On October 1, Los Angeles County’s sales tax rises from 9.75 percent […]
California’s $11.25 Billion Housing Bond Needs a Price Tag Per Home
By Jose E. Navarro California voters will decide in November whether to borrow $11.25 billion for housing. Proposition 1, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, promises up […]
California’s $11.25 Billion Housing Bond Needs a Price Tag Per Home
By Jose E. Navarro California voters will decide in November whether to borrow $11.25 billion for housing. Proposition 1, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, promises up […]
THE BILL THAT KEEPS COMING — TWENTY MONTHS AFTER THE FIRES, LOS ANGELES’S BUDGET STILL HASN’T RECOVERED
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report When the Palisades and Eaton fires tore through Los Angeles in January 2025, the immediate story was human: lives lost, entire neighborhoods […]
THE SETTLEMENT BILL NOBODY IS MANAGING — INSIDE LOS ANGELES COUNTY’S SHERIFF LITIGATION TAB
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $12.5 million settlement over the 2021 fatal shooting of David Ordaz […]