Housing

Prior bills were a shot of urban growth hormone to force cities to grow vertically; this one is a density vitamin cities could choose to take or not.

On this episode. former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses how he'd terminate California's housing shortage. His first step? Legally make building homes easier.

When Resi Salvador’s three little brothers walk through the door, they make a beeline for her, seated at a folding chair at her parents’ kitchen table. They snuggle into her arms. Resi laughs. She’s home. Just a few feet away in the living room stands a bunkbed, where Resi sleeps when she’s home. All told, […]

Tucked into a $15 billion school bond measure is a break to encourage developers building apartments around transit. Some fear it could hurt certain school districts.

Every time Salinas third-grade teacher Maria Castellanoz gets a whiff of kerosene, it takes her right back to her childhood in a migrant labor camp. Her parents used to heat the house with the stuff, in a kerosene lamp. When it was cold, her father moved the lamp from room to room to keep his family warm. […]

California regulators eased off the state's groundbreaking new law requiring solar rooftops on most new homes, agreeing to allow developers to use a Sacramento utility's off-site solar installations instead. 

California's governor delivers a bold speech on homelessness — but shies away from the bolder recommendations of his own task force.

Which presidential candidate's housing plan will do the most for you, California voter? On this episode of "Gimme Shelter," CalMatters' Matt Levin and The Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon break down the housing proposals of the major remaining presidential candidates.

It was two hours after dusk in Santa Ana, and the temperature had dropped 10 degrees since sundown. A line of men and women bundled against the chill curled past the National Guard Armory’s entrance, around the side of the building and into the parking lot, about 150 in all.  Inside, the layout looked like […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom has a goal of 3.5 million new homes by 2025. His path to reaching it is even more limited, now that a hot zoning "reform" measure is dead for the year.