Housing Crisis

Tanner Blackman’s job is to push housing projects through Los Angeles’ famously Byzantine permitting process. With a torrent of state laws aimed at streamlining and speeding up approvals to combat the housing shortage, will the humble permit expediter profession survive?

When Californians voted to reduce drug penalties in 2014, it likely had the unintended consequence of also increasing homelessness in the state, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to measure the long-term effects of Proposition 47 – a 2014 ballot measure that lowered […]

Inclusionary zoning requires developers of market rate housing to limit rents on units set aside for low-income tenants. But it can backfire.

The state ordered every city and county to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030. With the exception of just five jurisdictions, no one is on track to hit their numbers.

Malibu and Pasadena ultimately agreed to allow state-decreed multiplex development in single-family neighborhoods after a pro-development legal nonprofit sued. The state, the city of Los Angeles and L.A. County aren’t backing down.

The federal housing bill does a lot of little things. Supporters hope it will put a dent in both California and the nation's housing shortage.

It’s expensive for schools in California to recruit and pay enough to fully staff their campuses. That means housing is an education issue, too.

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

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.

Los Angeles officials are fighting state housing reforms with a proposal that places the right type of housing in the wrong place. The city should instead be converting its aging housing stock.