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The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law CEQA challenges have paralyzed major housing and infrastructure projects around the Bay Area — including apartments located within steps of transit stations, student housing projects and California…

The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/04/20/t...

Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis Post-war Greece was short about 3-4 million homes. The problem was solved within a generation using a homespun financial agreement called antiparochi.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis

No new ADUs here: When California law and homeowner association rules collide He says state law gives him the right to turn his garage into an apartment. His HOA says it doesn’t. Who's right?

No new ADUs here: When California law and homeowner association rules collide calmatters.org/housing/2025...

San Diego has one of the lowest homeownership rates for people under 30 LendingTree said Nashville had the highest number of younger homeowners

San Diego has one of the lowest homeownership rates for people under 30 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/21/s...

How Will L.A. House Everyone Now? The city was already in the grip of an affordability crisis — last month’s massive fires just made everything worse. What can L.A. learn from other disaster recovery efforts?

How Will L.A. House Everyone Now? www.governing.com/urban/how-wi...

To Rebuild Los Angeles, Fix Zoning A lot more housing is needed, and not primarily in the areas destroyed by the fires.

To Rebuild Los Angeles, Fix Zoning www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America's richest towns The Silicon Valley town of Portola Valley faces a financial emergency and state sanction after years of attempting to block affordable housing.

How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

More People Are Living in the Riskiest Wildfire Zones The Palisades and Eaton Fires in Los Angeles show the dangers of living in what’s known as the wildland-urban interface.

More People Are Living in the Riskiest Wildfire Zones www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism The Yes In My Backyard movement is barely a decade old. But it has set the terms of the debate over state and local housing policy.

Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism www.governing.com/magazine/hou...

How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.

How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We lost a legend today. Rest in peace, Professor Shoup.

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State As part of an ongoing series commemorating PPIC's 30th anniversary, researchers Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee examine key trends in California’s housing market and discuss what high housing costs have ...

Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State from @ppicnotes.bsky.social www.ppic.org/blog/three-d...

There’s no protecting California values without building more housing California’s slow housing production is a direct threat to the future of our state’s political values and power in the aftermath of the presidential election.

There’s no protecting California values without building more housing www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Housing reforms will help California tackle living costs. Berkeley might show us how | Opinion California has for years tiptoed around the housing crisis. Berkeley's reforms may be the way to resolve it.

Housing reforms will help California tackle living costs. Berkeley might show us how. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Make It Legal to Build The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.

Make It Legal to Build prospect.org/infrastructu...

Sunny but expensive: Thousands more workers left California than arrived during a stretch last year. Here's where they went. Thousands more workers left California for job opportunities in other states than moved into the state, according to a recent report. High housing costs were a major factor in the migration.

Sunny but expensive: Thousands more workers left California than arrived during a stretch last year. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

A housing champion takes on the energy transition Permitting maven Buffy Wicks wants to build more transmission, sea walls and trains.

A housing champion takes on the energy transition www.politico.com/newsletters/...

California has the highest number of workers leaving the state. Where are they going? A report from the National Association of Realtors revealed California as the top state experiencing the highest job migration.

California has the highest number of workers leaving the state. Where are they going? www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

'Going to be some upset people': The new dealbreaker killing Calif. home sales In today's real estate market, the cost and availability of home insurance can make or break a sale. It's getting harder as climate risks increase.

13% of agents in California had a sales transaction canceled due to not finding insurance in 2024 www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...

At 96, she's 'thinking about the future of L.A. housing' and built an ADU to prove it Isabel Janken lived in her Westwood duplex for more than 40 years. Today, the garage of her duplex has been transformed into an ADU, creating a community of three rental units.

At 96, she’s ‘thinking about the future of L.A. housing’ and built an ADU to prove it www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

How California NIMBYs are weaponizing historic preservation to stop new homes California’s State Historic Resource Commission is a gubernatorially appointed body responsible for reviewing applications to create new historic resources.

How California NIMBYs are weaponizing historic preservation to stop new homes www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The way America builds homes is killing people America's inability to build enough homes in safe areas is pushing people to buy houses that are in harm's way.

The Way America Builds Homes Is Putting People in Serious Danger www.businessinsider.com/affordable-h...

Los Angeles Has a Climate Crisis and a Housing Crisis. Infill Housing Can Help Solve Both. Op-ed: Infill housing is the single best climate policy available to cities. If L.A. is serious about reaching carbon neutrality and housing affordability, we must adopt it now.

Los Angeles Has a Climate Crisis and a Housing Crisis. Infill Housing Can Help Solve Both. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

California’s housing crisis could be raising risk of climate disasters thehill.com/policy/energ...

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