Housing

The final deal puts a stripped-down tax-cut measure to voters in November but doesn't touch real-estate transfer taxes.

Bills moving through the Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, RVs parked on city streets and homelessness prevention.

A plan to set a $28 minimum wage for certain California homebuilders died when the influential trades union protested that it could undermine prevailing wage pay rates.

In 2023, the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization was given a new name, a new focus and millions more to spend revitalizing California’s most overlooked source of affordable housing. Three years later, the results are starting to come in.

Some Democrats are divided over a bill that would cap how much homeowners associations can raise fees each year.

The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California's "housing-first" policies.

Fraud allegations by the Trump administration could cost the Los Angeles area hundreds of millions of dollars in federal homelessness funding.

This is just the latest spat between two rival construction unions over the future of California housing policy.

The Trump administration downplayed the decline in homelessness, contending far more people are on the streets today than a decade ago.

The federal government's annual "point-in-time" homelessness count is used by city and county governments across the country to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.