Yolo County Local News: Housing

09/25/2023
The first shoe has now fallen in Davis—now the question will be what will come of it.

09/20/2023
Lost in the madness of yet another bomb threat was an important discussion that took place at the city council meeting Sept. 19 when Councilmember Bapu Vaitla pulled the consent item on the Village Farms EIR.

09/19/2023
Councilmember Bapu Vaitla pulled the consent item on the EIR contract for Village Farms to discuss additional evaluations of a more dense alternative. Councilmember Vaitla noted that there are seven alternative project alternative scenarios that are considered eventually in the scope of services.

09/18/2023
A patchwork of bills are giving housing developers and local governments more options to reduce red tape for housing projects.

09/17/2023
Locals for Affordable Housing aims to place a voter initiative on the November 2024 ballot modeled after Berkeley’s vacancy tax, which requires owners of homes that sit vacant more than six months to pay $3,000 for the first year and $6,000 every year after.

09/10/2023
Caesar LaVey’s 267-square-foot apartment is tucked inside a sleek five-story building called Sonrisa, a new affordable housing community two blocks from the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento.

09/05/2023
A June budget deal required community colleges to raise their own money to build affordable student housing. Some campuses said that plan prevented them from building the dorms, even with help from the state to pay the debt.

08/29/2023
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks proposed legislation to help get around a court's rejection of a UC Berkeley housing plan. But even if the law is approved, its fate is in the hands of the state Supreme Court.

08/25/2023
Housing co-ops—or democratically controlled corporations that are established to provide affordable housing for its members—are popular in Davis, with Turtle House being a notable example.

08/16/2023
Hans Johnson, an expert in domestic migration, housing, and population projections, explains the state’s population shift and how it’s impacted the housing market.

08/16/2023
The university celebrated the opening of its new Orchard Park neighborhood with 1,500 beds in apartments. Part of the most ambitious housing construction program at UC Davis, this $330 million project has helped the campus exceed a 2023 milestone.

08/15/2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom promised $95 million would help undocumented workers rebuild after winter storms and floods. Months later, $18 million is being doled out and there are translation issues with the state’s website.

07/20/2023
The lack of enough places for everyone to live has sent coastal rent prices inland, removing large swaths of previously cheaper rental units.

07/11/2023
For the first time, San Diego has surpassed San Francisco for average rental rates, making the All-American City the nation’s third-most expensive rental market, according to a Zillow report. But San Jose had the nation’s highest monthly rent with $3,411.

04/13/2023
The Sacramento Bee has created an interactive map showing how the housing market has slowed in most California counties. While the real estate market was peaking at this time last year, things have changed, with El Dorado County experiencing the largest drop-off.

03/01/2023
California lawmakers thought they cracked the code last year on a construction union stalemate holding up housing bills. But rifts within labor could reignite the war over how best to craft affordable housing policy.

02/13/2023
Sen. Scott Wiener wants to expand and extend SB 35, which forces cities to approve certain developments with affordable units.

10/13/2022
Low wages, high interest rates, and soaring prices make area homes affordable for only a fraction of workers, a study shows.

08/30/2022
A Sacramento Area Council of Governments pilot program called Green Means Go identifies areas called “Green Zones” in the six-county Sacramento region and then makes efforts to increase infill housing where services already exist while also improving access to alternative modes of transportation.

08/27/2022
A recent study by CoStar Analytics found nearly 1,000 affordable or rent-controlled units are under construction in the Sacramento region, the highest number since 2015. But that’s only a fraction of more than 5,000 total homes.