Last month, State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released a draft of his legislation, Senate Bill 827, which would upend zoning rules throughout California. The bill, aimed at making it easier to build housing at a time when the state…
A report by California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released Wednesday lays out the limits of state power to solve California’s worsening housing crisis. The report, the most recent in a series from the nonpartisan organization analyzing the causes and consequences of…
Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, released earlier this week, has some good news and some bad news for housing in California. California remains in the throes of the worst housing shortage in generations and Brown’s proposed budget made it clear…
Housing affordability in California is the worst it has been in the state’s history and it’s widening the gap between rich and poor, according to a report from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released Tuesday. The…
This post originally appeared on Streetsblog California. Today, #DamienTalks with Jason Islas, the editor of Santa Monica Next. This podcast featured Islas a couple of months ago to discuss a proposal by Assemblymember Richard Bloom to make it easier to…
It’s no secret that Santa Monica is one of the most expensive places to live in California, a reality that anyone who has tried to move to the city or even within it knows all too well. While Santa Monica…
Southern California Public Radio affiliate KPCC, in partnership with the Milken Institute, assembled a panel of experts Wednesday night to answer the question: can high-density housing solve the housing crisis currently facing L.A. County and California? For those who have…
In early 2013, the City Council met to set criteria that would get certain projects prioritized. With about 35 development agreements then pending, the Council wanted to make sure that the projects that moved forward the fastest were housing projects,…
Amid concerns that unregulated vacation rentals were exacerbating Santa Monica’s dire housing supply crisis, the Santa Monica City Council voted 6-to-0 yesterday to strengthen its prohibition on short-term rentals while allowing “homeshare.” The ordinance, which the Council passed after more than…
Last week, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) put out a report calling for coastal communities to build more housing to tackle the dire shortage of homes — and the resulting affordability crisis — currently facing the state. According to…
