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The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/04/20/t...
The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law
CEQA challenges have paralyzed major housing and infrastructure projects around the Bay Area — including apartments located within steps of transit stations, student housing projects and California…
www.eastbaytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/04/20/t...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis
Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis
Post-war Greece was short about 3-4 million homes. The problem was solved within a generation using a homespun financial agreement called antiparochi.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... Greece offers a blueprint for ending California’s housing crisis
No new ADUs here: When California law and homeowner association rules collide calmatters.org/housing/2025...
No new ADUs here: When California law and homeowner association rules collide
He says state law gives him the right to turn his garage into an apartment. His HOA says it doesn’t. Who's right?
calmatters.org
May 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
No new ADUs here: When California law and homeowner association rules collide calmatters.org/housing/2025...
San Diego has one of the lowest homeownership rates for people under 30 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/21/s...
San Diego has one of the lowest homeownership rates for people under 30
LendingTree said Nashville had the highest number of younger homeowners
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
San Diego has one of the lowest homeownership rates for people under 30 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/21/s...
How Will L.A. House Everyone Now? www.governing.com/urban/how-wi...
How Will L.A. House Everyone Now?
The city was already in the grip of an affordability crisis — last month’s massive fires just made everything worse. What can L.A. learn from other disaster recovery efforts?
www.governing.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
How Will L.A. House Everyone Now? www.governing.com/urban/how-wi...
To Rebuild Los Angeles, Fix Zoning www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
To Rebuild Los Angeles, Fix Zoning
A lot more housing is needed, and not primarily in the areas destroyed by the fires.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
To Rebuild Los Angeles, Fix Zoning www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America's richest towns
The Silicon Valley town of Portola Valley faces a financial emergency and state sanction after years of attempting to block affordable housing.
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
More People Are Living in the Riskiest Wildfire Zones www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
More People Are Living in the Riskiest Wildfire Zones
The Palisades and Eaton Fires in Los Angeles show the dangers of living in what’s known as the wildland-urban interface.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
More People Are Living in the Riskiest Wildfire Zones www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism www.governing.com/magazine/hou...
Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism
The Yes In My Backyard movement is barely a decade old. But it has set the terms of the debate over state and local housing policy.
www.governing.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Housing Shortages Create an Alternative to NIMBYism www.governing.com/magazine/hou...
How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We lost a legend today. Rest in peace, Professor Shoup.
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
February 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
We lost a legend today. Rest in peace, Professor Shoup.
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I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State from @ppicnotes.bsky.social www.ppic.org/blog/three-d...
Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State
As part of an ongoing series commemorating PPIC's 30th anniversary, researchers Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee examine key trends in California’s housing market and discuss what high housing costs have ...
www.ppic.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State from @ppicnotes.bsky.social www.ppic.org/blog/three-d...
There’s no protecting California values without building more housing www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
There’s no protecting California values without building more housing
California’s slow housing production is a direct threat to the future of our state’s political values and power in the aftermath of the presidential election.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
There’s no protecting California values without building more housing www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Housing reforms will help California tackle living costs. Berkeley might show us how. calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Housing reforms will help California tackle living costs. Berkeley might show us how | Opinion
California has for years tiptoed around the housing crisis. Berkeley's reforms may be the way to resolve it.
calmatters.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Housing reforms will help California tackle living costs. Berkeley might show us how. calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Make It Legal to Build prospect.org/infrastructu...
Make It Legal to Build
The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.
prospect.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Make It Legal to Build prospect.org/infrastructu...
Sunny but expensive: Thousands more workers left California than arrived during a stretch last year. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Sunny but expensive: Thousands more workers left California than arrived during a stretch last year. Here's where they went.
Thousands more workers left California for job opportunities in other states than moved into the state, according to a recent report. High housing costs were a major factor in the migration.
www.latimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Sunny but expensive: Thousands more workers left California than arrived during a stretch last year. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
A housing champion takes on the energy transition www.politico.com/newsletters/...
A housing champion takes on the energy transition
Permitting maven Buffy Wicks wants to build more transmission, sea walls and trains.
www.politico.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A housing champion takes on the energy transition www.politico.com/newsletters/...
California has the highest number of workers leaving the state. Where are they going? www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...
California has the highest number of workers leaving the state. Where are they going?
A report from the National Association of Realtors revealed California as the top state experiencing the highest job migration.
www.desertsun.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
California has the highest number of workers leaving the state. Where are they going? www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...
13% of agents in California had a sales transaction canceled due to not finding insurance in 2024 www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...
'Going to be some upset people': The new dealbreaker killing Calif. home sales
In today's real estate market, the cost and availability of home insurance can make or break a sale. It's getting harder as climate risks increase.
www.sfgate.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
13% of agents in California had a sales transaction canceled due to not finding insurance in 2024 www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...
At 96, she’s ‘thinking about the future of L.A. housing’ and built an ADU to prove it www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
At 96, she's 'thinking about the future of L.A. housing' and built an ADU to prove it
Isabel Janken lived in her Westwood duplex for more than 40 years. Today, the garage of her duplex has been transformed into an ADU, creating a community of three rental units.
www.latimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
At 96, she’s ‘thinking about the future of L.A. housing’ and built an ADU to prove it www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
How California NIMBYs are weaponizing historic preservation to stop new homes www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
How California NIMBYs are weaponizing historic preservation to stop new homes
California’s State Historic Resource Commission is a gubernatorially appointed body responsible for reviewing applications to create new historic resources.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
How California NIMBYs are weaponizing historic preservation to stop new homes www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
The Way America Builds Homes Is Putting People in Serious Danger www.businessinsider.com/affordable-h...
The way America builds homes is killing people
America's inability to build enough homes in safe areas is pushing people to buy houses that are in harm's way.
www.businessinsider.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The Way America Builds Homes Is Putting People in Serious Danger www.businessinsider.com/affordable-h...
Los Angeles Has a Climate Crisis and a Housing Crisis. Infill Housing Can Help Solve Both. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Los Angeles Has a Climate Crisis and a Housing Crisis. Infill Housing Can Help Solve Both.
Op-ed: Infill housing is the single best climate policy available to cities. If L.A. is serious about reaching carbon neutrality and housing affordability, we must adopt it now.
nextcity.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Los Angeles Has a Climate Crisis and a Housing Crisis. Infill Housing Can Help Solve Both. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
California’s housing crisis could be raising risk of climate disasters thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
December 29, 2024 at 6:38 AM
California’s housing crisis could be raising risk of climate disasters thehill.com/policy/energ...