Statewide Region Housing Overview

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.

Despite predictions that the party on the West Coast is winding down, California’s population increased last year for the first time since 2020.

California communities are focusing resources in response to the effects of climate change and other challenges.

Some of California’s top lawmakers want to clear up, but also rein in, the “builder’s remedy.”

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.

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.

Founding CEO John Foley and others speak about SSHH’s roots and early successes.

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.

We’re getting ready to track the progress of California Forever’s plans to build a city of 400,000 in what is now Solano County farm country.