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California cities scramble to comply with or fight major state housing law

For California’s local governments hoping to have some say over where and how large apartment buildings get packed near major transit stops, it’s crunch time.

 

California considering a first of its kind idea to boost factory-built housing

In an effort to put a dent in the state’s housing shortage, California is considering something unprecedented: getting into the construction insurance business.

 

California has 40,000 affordable housing units ready to break ground. One setback is holding them up

The apartment building planned on East Morris Avenue in Modesto is exactly the kind of thing that California’s political leaders want to see a whole lot more of: The project promises 44 units of affordable housing — half reserved for people without homes.

 

California’s fire safety regulators are finally out with a ‘single stair’ report

Two months past a statutory deadline, California’s top fire safety regulator published a report Monday on whether and how the state should legalize mid-rise apartment buildings with a lone staircase.

 

Factory-built housing hasn’t taken off in California yet, but this year might be different

As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan — “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the scene — the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development proclaimed it “the coming of a real revolution in housing.”

 

California counties must jump through new hoops to get homelessness funds

Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened many times to withhold state homelessness funds from cities and counties that aren’t doing enough to get people off the streets.

 

Why homeownership in California isn’t nearly the financial slam dunk it once was

It’s the benchmark of success, a milestone of responsible adulthood, a time-tested way to amass wealth for you and your progeny.

 

One California city’s idea to tackle the housing crisis: Take the stairs

In late September, Culver City became the first municipality in California to legalize the construction of mid-rise apartment buildings with a single staircase.

 

Lawsuit challenges California affordable housing programs after Supreme Court ruling

East Palo Alto, like cities across California, has a law on the books that forces developers of new housing projects to foot the bill for the state’s shortage of affordable homes.

 

California, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agency

After years of soaring rents, increasingly out-of-reach home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis that touches every corner of the state, California is finally creating a state agency exclusively focused on housing issues.

 

New fire maps put nearly 4 million Californians in hazardous zones. What does that mean for them?

New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County.

Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield.

 

The Supreme Court took powers away from federal regulators. Do California rules offer a backstop?

Tucked between headline-grabbing opinions on presidential immunity, Jan. 6 rioters and homeless encampments, the U.S.

 

Bay Area will decide California’s biggest housing bond ever

The largest affordable housing bond in California history is officially headed to the November ballot — just not for all Californians.