Housing

Costs of affordable housing projects are truly staggering, but using modular components can save time and money.

Howdy, California. It’s Wednesday, April 7. This is CalMatters politics reporter Ben Christopher filling in for Emily Hoeven who really is still on vacation. Await the ides of June California’s collective year-long ordeal spent shuttered and sheltered-in-place finally has a tentative expiration date: June 15. Assuming all goes as planned, that’s the day that California […]

If California is to meet our goals for greenhouse gas reduction and affordable housing, it’s time to break down the local barriers.

Factory-built modular housing could solve one of the most vexing aspects of California's housing crisis, but will politicians embrace it or strangle it?

California offers two examples of how the intergovernmental food chain works.

Key legislators push duplexes, looser regulations and more money to boost housing supply.

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, March 18. Surge in anti-Asian hate Pressure is mounting on Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint an Asian American or Pacific Islander attorney general amid a surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence, including Tuesday shootings in Atlanta in which a man killed eight people, six of whom were women of Asian […]

A housing network has been created to leverage resources and produce 10,000 affordable housing units over the next 10 years.

As California's governor delivered his annual address — this time from Dodger Stadium — the CalMatters reporting team offered the following corrections, clarifications and context.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced changes late Wednesday night to California’s tiered reopening system that will make it easier for businesses to reopen and increase pressure on school districts to bring kids back to campus. Under the new system, California will earmark 40% of its COVID-19 vaccine doses for low-income communities spread out across 400 […]