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Sacramento opens the new Del Rio Trail for all to walk, bike, roll and enjoy
The City of Sacramento this week opened the Del Rio Trail, a new active transportation corridor that will provide a low-stress bike route connecting south Sacramento to downtown. The construction ...
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The California housing crisis is not only weakening the state politically at the national level, it could shift the political balance in Washington, D.C., as Republican-led states add population while California’s exodus continues.
The 2023 collapse of Sacramento Self-Help Housing has led to a large hole in local services. But it also shows problems go well beyond the former nonprofit.
Some of California’s top lawmakers want to clear up, but also rein in, the “builder’s remedy.”
As problems accelerated for Sacramento Self-Help Housing, human impacts deepened, with people the organization once helped facing the prospect of homelessness.
As the numbers of people experiencing homelessness in the Sacramento area grew, the once-nimble SSHH expanded its services. Problems quickly followed.
A once-groundbreaking nonprofit working with chronically homeless people in California’s capital closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2023.
The California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, is both the state’s signature environmental legislation, and is also often named as the villain in the state’s housing shortage. But the story may not be that simple.
By Keyshawn Davis In 1982, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency was formed by the city and county as a joint powers authority. These local governments...
By Hannah Ross Hazel Watson has over seven years of experience networking and advocating on important issues within the Sacramento community from housing and homelessness...
In NYT’s “The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted,” we meet a man who wants to build a city in the middle of nowhere, and folks who are slowing him down.
By Nick Brunner In a neighborhood called Mirasol Village, a new light rail stop was planned as part of a newly opened mixed-income housing center....
Carmichael Development to be 46-Home, All-Electric CommunityOriginal article published at Carmichael Times
California Forever, the company behind a proposed new city in Solano County, will submit a ballot measure seeking an exemption from local laws to allow development on the massive project to proceed.
By Nick Brunner For a for-profit developer in Sacramento, from the different regulations they face to how they might not see a payday until a...
The highest court in the land will soon decide how much leeway cities and counties have in offsetting new construction with fees to pay for infrastructure.
San Francisco provides all tenants facing eviction access to an attorney. Across the Bay, in Contra Costa County, it’s a different story. Two tenants’ stories show the difference a lawyer can make.
California lawmakers made an effort in 2023 to remove red tape around new affordable houses, but obstacles such as high interest rates, sluggish local approval processes and a shortage of skilled construction workers remain.
By Lucas McMaster and Lauren Reagan The cost of rent in Sacramento has made living unsustainable for many residents, the latest census data show. The...
By Keyshawn Davis Samuel McCurin and his son were evicted from their South Sacramento apartment in August. With the loss of his apartment, he also...
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