\u201cWhat employers did after they [the children] left our jurisdiction, where the exploitation may have occurred, was not on my watch, \u201d Becerra said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the key campaign promises that Becerra has touted is that he would improve affordability. Becerra said<\/a> on X that if elected, he would freeze utility rates and home insurance rates while searching for long-term solutions to bring the costs down. Home insurance rates in California are regulated by the state\u2019s Department of Insurance, and any rate changes need to be approved by the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Becerra has also promised<\/a> that he would expand the down payment assistance program for first-time home buyers, although the details of how he would do so remain unclear. The current down payment assistance program<\/a> offers to pay up to $150,000 to first-generation home buyers in California and only needs to be paid back after homebuyers sell their home.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat employers did after they [the children] left our jurisdiction, where the exploitation may have occurred, was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,131,133,132,13482],"class_list":["post-343831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}