San Diego took a step toward becoming a less car-reliant city on Monday when the City Council voted 8-1 to eliminate parking requirements for new condominium and apartment complexes in neighborhoods near mass transit.
Providing parking hikes cost of local housing. On Monday, the San Diego City Council will consider Mayor Faulconer’s plan to reform parking standards for new residential development around the city’s busiest transit routes.
Three entirely affordable housing developments in Redwood City totaling 217 units are one step closer to breaking ground after the City Council signed off on funding strategies earlier this month.
Housing is a big part of America’s story of innovation, productivity, and economic growth. For much of the industrial 20th century, housing helped to drive the economy by stimulating demand. Building more housing—especially in the suburbs—stoked the demand for more cars, washing machines, and other durable goods from America’s factories, creating good jobs for American workers and setting in motion a virtuous circle of economic growth.
When Toni Atkins, President Pro Tem of the California State Senate, sat down to talk with PPIC president Mark Baldassare last week, she brought along a list of pressing issues. Asked to name the top two issues facing the state, she led off with housing: “The growing crisis around the lack of housing supply for all levels of Californians is one of our most critical issues.” Next came climate change and its effects across California. And then she added a third issue: water sustainability. In reality, she said, “there is...
New data shows Santa Rosa received more applications to build “granny units” last year than it had in the entire preceding decade, evidence that the city’s efforts to spur housing just about any way it can is starting to yield results.
Newly elected state Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris said Monday she is trying to negotiate an end to a potentially costly legal battle in California’s housing lawsuit against Huntington Beach and said the city should get more time to comply with state requirements.
San Francisco is often unfairly parodied as a haven for NIMBYs– a place where everyone claims to want more affordable housing, just not in their own community. But, as I always tell visitors, the issue is more nuanced and the outcomes often more positive. There are more YIMBYs than NIMBYs...
Habitat For Humanity built a bedroom in front of the State Capitol Wednesday as they prepared to speak with legislators about affordable housing in the state.
