The state has made it exceedingly difficult to build in fire-safe cities, while also making insurance rates in high-risk areas artificially cheap.
The source of the state's housing affordability problems are onerous government regulations and fees that artificially drive up the costs of housing.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.
California's progressive political imperatives are having such glaring real-world repercussions that it's hard to keep ignoring them.
Los Angeles is spending $600,000 per unit on building affordable and supportive housing for homeless residents.
A new study of inclusionary zoning policies in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas finds that the policy ends up raising rents.
California is about to get a real world lesson in how rent control laws can't solve a housing crisis.
The wish-fulfillment machine kicks into high gear on both sides of the aisle.
The Golden State now allows homeowners to build up to two accessory dwelling units on their property by right.
The Minneapolis city council just made the rental business a lot riskier for property owners.
The socialist presidential candidate wants the federal government to take the lead in regulating rental prices and building new rental housing.
Local governments that remove development restrictions near transit would have a better chance of scoring federal transit funding grants.
Economists have long warned that rent control only limits housing supply and drives up prices in the long-run
Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City all have some easily identifiable management problems.
Rent increases could be capped at 5 percent plus inflation under a new agreement struck by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders.
“Greenmailing” drives up construction costs and wait times, making the state’s already expensive housing even less affordable.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is suing to prevent Amoeba Music's Hollywood location from becoming a 200-unit apartment building.
The long shot presidential candidate wants booming cities to get rid of their restrictions on new development.
The Golden State toys with bad fixes to its worsening housing affordability problems.
Denver NIMBYs are using historic preservation laws to stop a restaurant owner from selling his diner to a developer so he can retire.
In a beautiful display of how markets can resolve conflicts, Manhattanites pay a developer to not block their view.
The progressive bastion is trying to make its laws more inclusive, semantically at least.
Landlords are suing to overturn state rental regulations that limit how much they can charge tenants and who they can rent to.
Yet another neighborhood group is using a California environmental regulation to stop a housing project they don't like.
It's by building lots more housing, obviously.
This is nearly double the increase the city first reported in May.
The 2020 contender wants to give $25,000 grants to homebuyers living in historically segregated neighborhoods.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti doesn't like President Donald Trump's insults, but does want more money from his administration.
State lawmakers end the legislative sessions by passing a bill that will allow for denser housing construction across the state.
Proposals from the White House and Sen. Todd Young highlight the role regulation plays in raising housing costs.
The tech giant's plan to add 20,000 homes will require lots of government permission slips and other investors' money.
Mainstream media is starting to embrace the idea of deregulating housing construction. Will policymakers?
The state's new rental regulations make it more difficult for landlords to raise rents on well-off renters.
Delaying housing projects for years will not make cities more affordable.
The supposed symbol of gentrification has become the target of city politicians.
An environmental lawsuit holds up yet another residential development in housing-starved California.
Polis vetoed licensing requirements for HOA managers, sports agents, and genetic counselors. That's not sitting well with some members of his own party.
Proposed legislation aims to crack down on "McMansions."
A compromise version of the bill would cap rent increases at 7 percent plus inflation for three years.
SB 50's upzoning provisions were repeatedly watered down to make the bill more politically palatable. It turns out that wasn't enough.
Everywhere rent control is tried, the same things happen. Landlords exit the market. Developers stop building apartments. Supply drops significantly.
"When you start having mandates and [the] state setting price controls, you create all kinds of distortions in the market."
A flaw in a proposal that would let developers build more high-density apartments and condos is that it doesn't go nearly far enough
SB 50 is starting to look less like a bold reform, and more like a marginal improvement on a dreadful status quo.
Fresh from their 2018 defeat, California's rent control advocates are back with another statewide ballot initiative.
A new mailer from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation argues that allowing the construction of apartment buildings near transit stops is tantamount to "negro removal."
At least now we're arguing over the right thing: the need to hike housing supply.
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