By: Matt Tinoco June 27, 2019 — It’s no secret that housing costs in Los Angeles and Orange counties are high compared to the pay most people take home. In fact, housing costs are so…
Press Release: Housing California June 27, 2019 — Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature reached a historic $2.7 billion deal to address housing affordability today, just hours after headlines in Sacramento County announced devastating news…
By: Kelsi Maree Borland June 25, 2019 — Huntington Beach is currently leading the Los Angeles market for apartment rent growth. According to a new report from Yardi’s Rent Café, Huntington Beach apartment rents increased 10.8%…
By: Sara Hossaini June 21, 2019 — Oakland officials opened the first parking site Friday for people living in their RVs, as part of their bid to ease the housing crisis impacting communities throughout the…
By: Andrew O’ReillyJune 24, 2019 — A recent report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development found the city of San Diego and the surrounding county had the fourth-highest population of homeless people in the country –…
By: Vicky Nguyen June 20, 2019 — It has been a few weeks since the homeless people living in a North Beach parking lot in San Clemente were moved to the city’s maintenance services yard…
By: State Senator Bob Wieckowski June 20, 2019 — Senate Bill 13 to reduce some of the remaining barriers homeowners face when trying to build Acessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s), also known as granny flats, passed the Assembly…
By: Michael Hendrix June 20, 2019 — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that over the next decade his company will convert $750 million worth of its own land to build at least 15,000 new…
By: Jeff Montejano June 19, 2019 — California’s housing crisis has received a heightened level of attention in 2019 and rightfully so. A statewide survey conducted earlier this year by the Public Policy Institute of…
By: Jessica Goodheart June 19, 2019 — COLD HARD DATA can focus the mind of voters and politicians alike. Los Angeles voters have been generous on homelessness issues in recent years, even if they have not always…
By: Tim Houchen June 19, 2019 — There were two major news stories related to homelessness in Orange County that shocked the world and captivated the international news media spotlight over the course of six…
By: James Sutton June 19, 2019 — Conservatives have long been advocates of local control over policy. They often use the word “subsidiarity,” a concept with origins in Catholic social thought and a simple premise:…
By: Betty T. Yee June 19, 2019 — California is in a housing crisis. For decades, the state has failed to spur enough housing development to accommodate our growing population. Between 2015 and 2025, the…
By: Carolyn Coleman June 17, 2019 — With homelessness worsening, Californians are rightly frustrated that our state, with its abundance of wealth and resources, has not made better progress in helping people get off the…
By: Tim Houchen June 16, 2019 — Last Tuesday on June 11, 2019, I joined members of Housing is a Human Right OC (HHROC) on an annual pilgrimage to the Hall of Administration for the…