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homelessness

Year in review: California homelessness worsens even as housing bills pass

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | December 19, 2023
The Legislature passed more affordable housing laws but home prices and rents are still increasing.
Housing

Tens of thousands still waiting as California COVID rent relief program runs low on cash

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | December 4, 2023
The emergency relief program has been beset by lengthy delays and administrative disorganization, say struggling renters.
Bay Area

Speaker Rivas shuffles the leadership deck and YIMBYs win

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | November 22, 2023
Oakland Democrat Buffy Wicks has been appointed to a more powerful position.
energy

As rooftop solar debate flares, builders, landlords, and renter advocates are taking sides

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | October 6, 2023
The California Public Utilities Commission may gut the payments to owners of solar panels on apartment buildings.
wildfires

Can this plan fix California’s insurance crisis? What you need to know

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | September 21, 2023
Insurers would return to wildfire zones, but would have an easier path to rate increases.
Housing

How California lawmakers greenlit ‘any flavor of affordable housing you could possibly want’

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | September 19, 2023
A patchwork of bills are giving housing developers and local governments more options to reduce red tape for housing projects.
Housing

Making borrowing easier: Amendment to state constitution could unlock billions of dollars for California housing

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | August 10, 2023
An effort to lower the approval threshold for municipal bond measures would drastically alter the landscape for local government housing projects.
Housing

California could borrow a record-breaking $35 billion to tackle the housing crisis. Will voters go along?

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | August 3, 2023
Three of the biggest housing bonds in state history are bound for the 2024 ballot.
Housing

Some of California’s ‘cheapest’ cities have seen the biggest rent hikes

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | July 21, 2023
A surge in new inland residents that began in the pandemic has upended local housing markets.
Housing

How the ‘builder’s remedy’ law has helped developers build more homes, faster

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters | June 5, 2023
A new interpretation of a 1990 law gives homebuilders leverage over California cities and their zoning codes.
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