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California, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agency
After years of soaring rents and home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis, California is finally creating a state ...
One California lawmaker is looking to end ‘housing
Institutional investors buying single-family rentals are being accused of squeezing private buyers out of the market. Now ...
Despite new sales tax to reduce homelessness, LAHSA cuts back an effective path to housing
An L.A. County temporary housing subsidy program is facing big cuts this year, raising alarm among homeless service providers ...
New California Laws to Help Turn Brownfields Into Buildable Land
Opinion: Frost Brown Todd's Thierry Montoya says new legislation will help create a more reliable legal framework for ...
What New ROAD to Housing Act Means for Homeowners
A historic, bipartisan housing package trying to boost the country's home supply and alleviate the affordability crisis is moving through the legislature.
So many reasons to stay put: What’s behind California’s frozen housing market?
What happens when you take high interest rates, unpredictable tariffs, a shortage of homes, a 50-year-old property tax law and mix them together? A housing market stuck in molasses.
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To Fix the Housing Crisis, Funders Should Stop Obsessing over Scale
Philanthropists, fixating on national scale is making you miss out on sustainable housing solutions from regional innovation.
Opinion: We must keep trying to fix our housing affordability crisis
San Diego is one of the least affordable cities in the nation, but it wasn’t always this way, and it doesn’t have to remain ...
CEQA, one of the biggest obstacles to new housing in California, gets sidelined
With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a decisive swath of urban residential development in California. In practice, ...