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.
Zoning laws determine what can be built and where. These laws have shaped California, but are they really just tools for social engineering? The history of zoning is closely tied to racial segregation, as well as the state's shortage of …
California has some of the worst economic inequality in the United States. Is the housing crisis a cause?
As California insurance companies have revoked the fire policies of thousands of homeowners, the state has taken steps to get them covered again.
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We take a closer look at ambitious plans to build a new community of up to 400,000 residents in Solano County.
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Jan Sramek disavows techno-libertarian 'Network State,' explains why master-planned cities are All-American, and talks of his love for walkable communities.
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Unless California solves its housing crisis, the state will lose more congressional seats and could shift the political alignment of the whole country
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Despite predictions that the party on the West Coast is winding down, California’s population increased last year for the first time since 2020.
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Some of California’s top lawmakers want to clear up, but also rein in, the “builder’s remedy.”
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Prop 1 was designed to help unhoused people get off the streets by forcing them into treatment. That’s one reason it took two weeks of vote-counting to pass.
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Camp Resolution, a self-governed, city-sanctioned homeless encampment, was supposed to be a model for future sites. Now it’s under threat of prosecution.
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Founding CEO John Foley and others speak about SSHH’s roots and early successes
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A once-groundbreaking nonprofit working with chronically homeless people in California’s capital closed and filed for bankruptcy in 2023. Here’s what happened.
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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. For now.
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High court ruling on "impact fees" could cost local governments millions in revenue for infrastructure.
