By Hannah Wiley January 29, 2020 — A high-profile proposal to address California’s housing crisis by compelling cities to build more homesfailed to pass the Senate on Wednesday, but lawmakers left the bill’s author one…
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By Emily Nonko January 27, 2020 — Early into the tenure of Mayor London Breed, who was elected in San Francisco in the summer of 2018, she began unannounced inspections of neighborhoods. She was making…
By Matt Levin January 23, 2020 — IN SUMMARYOptions for addressing the state’s most pressing social problem range, at best, from limited to imperfect. What would you choose? Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken grief for failing to…
By Tim Chan January 24, 2020 — The two surviving members of the Doors gathered an eclectic group of friends and peers Thursday, for a special one-night-only reunion performance at a charity concert in Los Angeles. John…
By Hannah Wiley January 23, 2020 — A California bill that would have created a “right to housing” mandate died a mysterious death on Thursday. Assembly Bill 22 would have declared that California children and families…
By Chris Nichols January 21, 2020 — When one of the most contested California housing bills in years resurfaced at the state Capitol this month, so did the heated, often exaggerated claims about how it…
By Emma Ockerman January 17, 2020 — FEMA trailers — the kind of shelter that’s deployed when hurricanes and wildfires leave people stranded — could soon be put to use for a different disaster: California’s…
By NAEH January 9, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress reveals that an estimated 567,715 people were identified homeless on a single night in…
Tim Houchen January 13, 2020 — Huntington Beach has agreed to settle a state lawsuit that tried to force it to end years of opposition to meeting low-income housing goals. The tentative settlement revolves around…
By Annie Lowery January 13, 2020 — You’ve probably never heard of the most economically transformative legislation of the Trump era. Granted, it has not yet passed and it might not pass. If it does,…
By Adam Brinklow January 9, 2020 — SF-based State Sen. Scott Wiener has less than a month to pass his transit-housing plan—which he’s worked on for essentially more than two years—so he’s letting cities like…
By Matt Tinoco January 2, 2020 — When the Supreme Court declined to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that said levying criminal penalties on homeless people for sleeping on public property amounted to…
By Will Carruthers January 3, 2020 — At the start of the new year, a host of new state housing laws kicked in. Whether you rent or own in Silicon Valley, here are some of the…
By John Underwood December 26, 2019 — As a student of journalism, as a working reporter, as a documentarian looking at the world through the lens of a camera, I have been trained and have…
By Saki Bailey December 3, 2019 — A new law benefiting California community land trusts (CLTs) was signed into law by the Governor on October 9, 2019. SB 196, a bill sponsored by Senator Jim Beall with…
By Jared Brey December 3, 2019 — As the links between physical health and community wealth and vitality become clearer all the time, fourteen regional and national health systems are coming together to commit at…
By Alexei Koseff December 3, 2019 — A judge’s ruling in San Mateo County is raising fears among developers and advocates for more housing construction that the state will lose its leverage for forcing cities…
By Sasha Perigo December 1, 2019 — California’s housing shortage is getting worse. In this hot housing market, private developers who are incentivized solely to turn a profit are building to the top of the…
By Julia Sclafani November 26, 2019 — The city of Huntington Beach has agreed to reconsider a twice-rejected 48-unit residential and commercial development proposed for the northeast corner of Beach Boulevard and Ellis Avenue, bringing…
By: Martin Macias Jr. November 22, 2019 — LOS ANGELES (CN) – The mayors of Oakland, Sacramento and Los Angeles said at a housing policy summit Friday that curbing the state’s homelessness and housing affordability…