The San Francisco Chronicle has employed Lauren Hepler to cowl housing and inequality.

She has been at CalMatters protecting the California financial system. She is going to begin the Chronicle in two weeks.

Hepler has been reporting on gig employees, unemployment, the state funds and inequality for CalMatters. Hepler beforehand labored at Protocol, protecting Silicon Valley via the prism of the individuals who work there and the people who find themselves most immediately affected by what occurs there.

Hepler has written for The New York Instances, The Los Angeles Instances, The Guardian, Slate, and the BBC, and she or he reported beforehand for the Silicon Valley Enterprise Journal.