Yolo County Housing Digest

California uses Medicaid to pay for a range of nontraditional health care services, including housing. The Trump administration wants to scale back those programs.

In an effort to expedite new housing construction, the City of Sacramento is fast tracking the permitting, inspection and approval pipeline.

California Senate Housing Committee Chair Aisha Wahab is a staunch progressive who is clashing with pro-development activists and other Democrats who want to build more, faster.

In their April 15 meeting, the Woodland City Council approved moving forward with an additional 96 units of affordable housing at the Vista Del Robles complex at Ashley Avenue and Main Street.

A look at the Davis Community Action Network working on the interconnected issues of affordable housing and the climate crisis.

A deep dive about the housing affordability in Davis as the City Council is set to approve the 2025–2029 HUD Consolidated Plan and accompanying Year One Annual Action Plan in a public hearing on April 15.

In their April 1 meeting, the Davis City Council heard ominous warnings from Davis Joint Unified School District Superintendent Best about consequences of not building more housing as soon as possible.

A handful of legislators rallied near the state Capitol Thursday to promote what they’re calling an “extremely unsexy,” but important, bipartisan bill package intended to put California’s housing development into overdrive.

A number of bills are making their way through the state legislature with the goal of reducing red tape and fast tracking construction of new housing.

In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown.

Read on to learn more about a Davis City Council approved study into the feasibility of redevelopment of the city corporation yard into housing.

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their housing after the last dollar is spent.

According to the just released City of Davis Housing Element Annual Progress Report, the city is falling behind in construction of affordable housing across multiple categories. Read on for a summary of the report.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to see tangible results from the $6.4 billion mental health bond voters approved last year. Moving fast carries a risk of neglecting under-resourced communities.

Oakland Democrat Buffy Wicks said lawmakers will soon see 20 bills to speed up housing construction, along with more on energy, water and transit.

Read on to learn what 225 Davis residents who participated in 13 community conversations had to say.

Feather River College is still reeling from the 2021 Dixie Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes in the surrounding community and warped the housing market. The college is one of many schools that have tried — and failed — to secure state grants to build more student housing.

Each year, legislation aimed at better wildfire mitigation fails – often due to cost or conflict with environmental regulations.

Read on for details about a report on the 2-year Yolo County Basic Income Program which ended in April 2024.

A passel of recent California laws were supposed to supercharge the construction of desperately needed housing. According to YIMBY Law, they haven’t even come close.

In a dispute over whether he can convert his three-story condominium’s garage into its own ground-floor apartment, one Carlsbad resident is waging a battle against his homeowners association.

The timing could not have been better — or worse.

Read on for details about the $100 million Segundo Infill Housing Project to build new student housing in the northwest portion of the UC Davis campus.

Against the recommendation of his staff experts, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara denied a request from State Farm to green light “emergency” rate increases for insurance policy holders.

In the wake of the Los Angeles fires, State Farm asked for an “emergency” premium increase of 22% on average for California homeowners. Lara today denied the request pending more information.

In their February 13 meeting, the City of Davis Planning Commission listened to public feedback and engaged in discussion over the draft environmental impact report (EIR) of the controversial Village Farms. Read on to learn more about the project, the draft EIR, and the expressed concerns.

State Farm, which already has rate increase requests pending, asked state officials to approve more insurance price increases.

Read on to learn the results of the fall 2024 UCD Office of Student Housing and Dining Services commissioned survey on market-rate rental apartment availability in the City of Davis.

Damages in the ongoing Southern California wildfires are topping $250 billion, on track for the costliest disaster in US history. Read on to learn more.

In their January 21 meeting, the Davis City Council approved an ordinance establishing a down payment assistance program. Read on to learn more about next steps.

A look at how the rebuilding effort is going in the California town of Paradise, wiped out in a 2018 fire, and how it offers insights for the tough road ahead for residents in neighborhoods destroyed in the fires of Southern California.

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-uncontrolled flames.