California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, unveiled his first California budget proposal last month and it’s an $8 billion increase over Jerry Brown’s last budget. Governor Newsom plans on pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into housing and homelessness. These two issues were a major part of his campaign last year that he promised he would […]

It’s beginning to sounds like a common thing in California that many people are complaining about, housing is too expensive. Many people have moved within California from one city to another in the hopes of seeking lower housing prices and some people have even fled the state to neighboring states such as Nevada. However, the […]

It turns out that San Jose has made slow progress in reaching its goal of adding 10,000 affordable homes by 2022. According to a new report from the city’s housing department, just 64 units had been completed by the end of the 2017-18 fiscal year, which was in June. The report also claims that another […]

In late April the San Diego City Council unanimously approved legislation to sharply decrease fees to build granny flats, which are often nearly equal to construction costs. The objective is to help with the severe local shortage of affordable housing by increasing construction of more granny flats. Granny flats are additional housing units on an […]

The California Energy Commission unanimously voted yesterday to require that new homes in the state have solar panels on their roofs. The mandate takes effect in 2020 and it will officially make California the first state in the nation to require new homes to have solar panels on their roofs. Under the mandate, builders who […]

U.S. News & World Report released a study ranking the best states in the nation and the rankings weren’t too kind to California, especially when it comes to the quality of life in the state. The Best States ranking is part of an annual study that scores all 50 states on the following eight categories: […]

The economy in the Bay Area is booming, yet for people under the age of 40 and for renters, there is a high chance that they don’t travel or go out to eat much, and they probably have to cut back on groceries. Where is most of their money going to? According to a five-county […]

Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to establish rent controls at mobile home parks in unincorporated areas. This was done in a move to try and control the increasing rental costs at some mobile home parks in parts of the Los Angeles County. The approved motion was written by […]

Last month, it was announced that Los Angeles was planning on transforming parking lots from asphalt to multistory apartment buildings to house chronically homeless people. The city owns 119 public lots throughout the city, as well as other lots of land, and plans are already underway to develop housing on large public lots in Venice […]

In December, the median home price in Southern California surpassed the housing bubble-era highs, which is a milestone that took more than a decade to achieve. According to real estate data firm CoreLogic, the six-county region’s median price surged 8.2 percent from a year earlier to $507,500, which is once again raising concerns that housing […]