Housing Crisis

Caltrans construction forces families from homes and neighborhoods, though its efforts to widen freeways don’t seem to reduce traffic jams.

Berkeley’s experience shows change is possible when local and state reforms align, and when communities let go of their fears about growth.

For YIMBYs and other champions of more housing development, ditching the extra staircase has become a surprisingly buzzy cause. In Culver City, they have a test case.

Opponents to dense housing developments in Los Angeles turned their attention to transit after Gov. Newsom signed a law encouraging construction near bus and rail lines.

Signing SB 79 should be an easy call, but there's pressure from Los Angeles leaders to veto it. Newsom should know better than to let L.A. set state policy on housing.

The bill by a San Francisco Democrat would have allowed some state-funded homeless housing projects to require sobriety.

A bill on the governor’s desk would stop cities from chasing away supportive services and workers who help unhoused people survive the streets.

Gov. Gavin Newsom will have to decide soon if renters can fight eviction if their Social Security checks are disrupted during President Trump’s second term

56,000. 2.7 million. 840,000. Why is one of California’s most pressing policy problems so hard to measure?

The bill, among the most controversial housing proposals in recent memory, overcame opposition from local governments, organized labor unions and many legislative Democrats.