If you’re a reporter who wants to cover one of the biggest stories in California; who knows that the lack of affordable housing is a crisis driving the nation’s highest poverty rate and an exodus out of state; who is sophisticated about understanding and analyzing complex housing issues like regulations, costs and incentives — then you might be the next housing reporter at CalMatters. It’s hard to overstate the housing crisis in California, a state where the $700,000 median cost of a home is 2.5 times the national median, more than 150,000 are homeless, more than a third pay half of their income on rent, and construction of badly-needed new homes is far below the state’s minimum targets. CalMatters is one of the leading news organizations in the state on this topic including a ho