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Jungho Kim/CalMattersBuilding homes inside a factory has long been seen as a way to revolutionize the American housing industry, ushering in a new era of higher quality homes at lower price. That dream has never quite panned out. Can California finally make it happen? -
paulbr75/PixabayOregon says to keep up with demand, Ashland needs to build more than 3,500 new housing units in the next 20 years, but city officials say that’s not possible.
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California conducts a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) every eight years, which determines how many housing units need to be built in each jurisdiction. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom, Santa Clara County and San Francisco are suing the Trump administration over a huge shift in homelessness policy. -
Cynthia Scherr, host of The Ground Floor, visits with Jerryck Murrey, founder of Annum Housing. -
Three new pro-development appointees at the powerful Coastal Commission are trying to remedy its poor reputation among housing activists and Democratic leaders. -
The money from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality will convert vacant or low-occupancy nonresidential buildings into affordable housing. That could include industrial or commercial buildings as well as hotels or motels. -
Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing. -
Cynthia Scherr, host of The Ground Floor, visits with Jerryck Murrey, founder of Annum Housing.
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For the first time in years, Oregon landlords governed by the state’s rent stabilization law can’t hand out double-digit rent increases. -
56,000. 2.7 million. 840,000. Why is one of California’s most pressing policy problems so hard to measure? -
Experts worry liberal California will be blacklisted from federal homelessness dollars, effectively counteracting recent progress. -
California leaders wrapped this year’s legislative session Saturday afternoon, prolonged by last-minute backroom deals on climate and energy, sparking deep frustration among some lawmakers. -
Despite a last-minute scramble, California Senate leaders failed to fix an environmental law rollback for advanced manufacturing, leaving pollution concerns untouched as session ends.
