Housing Crisis

The fact that traditionally conservative Huntington Beach now has two new Democratic legislators might enable a deal that would end the state's lawsuit to force the more housing development there.

Kamala Harris launches her 2020 presidential campaign in Oakland. Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an example of an Orange County beach town. And Mike Males on kids.

Dan Dunmoyer, president and chief executive officer, California Building Industry Association A recent opinion authored by Scott Littlehale, “The missing ingredient to solve California’s housing affordability crisis,” erroneously embraces the position that California’s housing crisis is primarily due to a shortage of construction labor. Simply put, a shortage of labor isn’t the problem if new […]

If our government is going to truly prioritize housing all Californians, cities and counties must be required to put a significant portion of any incentive funding from the state toward directly supporting the production of homes at levels affordable to people most in need.

The governor put the surplus into three buckets: $3 billion for education and social services, $8.5 billion in one-time spending and $10 billion to build what he is calling “budget resiliency.”

Talk is underway about putting a law on the books that would bar California landlords from raising rent beyond a certain percentage.

LAUSD gives Gavin Newsom his first big test, redevelopment gets resurrected, California reduces homelessness but only slightly, and recession is nigh.

Through strategic land management, planning, and conservation practices, we can use our natural and working forests, parks, ranch land and farms to store carbon, and help cut greenhouse gas emissions while preparing for hotter, drier conditions.

Migrants who make it into California find support mixed with hardship. Across the border, there’s a cadre of pro bono attorneys eager to help them navigate the asylum application process. But the areas offering the most assistance also tend to have the highest cost of living.

California reacts to the Obamacare ruling, lawmakers make school spending wish lists as LAUSD plans a walkout, cap and trade's flaw, and housing control.