With a city council vote last week, Los Angeles will reduce its cap on annual rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments from 3-8% to 1-4%, the first change to rent stabilization in LA in 40 years

Passage of SB 450 means L.A. judge will look again at whether the lot-split law applies to charter cities. 

Mayor Karen Bass announced that Los Angeles will lift its homelessness state of emergency, marking the end of the executive powers that enabled rapid action through measures like Inside Safe and Executive Directive 1

City backed off of appeal after judge ordered that a $14 million bond be posted. 

SB 158, which lifts the CEQA exemption for some projects, apparently applies only to one project in the entire state: a proposed eight-story apartment building behind the iconic Santa Barbara Mission.

A pair of measures passed in Sausalito and the more ambitious of two housing measures passed in Santa Cruz

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's proposed "Family Zoning" is facing criticism from the City Controller's office, which contends that economic conditions will produce less than half the intended number of units

Appellate court concludes city should not have exempted car wash, which could lead to more Benzene emissions near school playground

Proposed 2026 ballot measure would create two categories of projects: "essential projects" subject to tighter timelines and other projects subject to current law. 

The CP&DR Vol. 40 No. 10 October 2025 Report

The draft Plan Bay Area 2050+ presents 35 regional strategies designed to guide housing, transportation, the economy and the environment through 2050 in the Bay Area

This year's CEQA reform will put more pressure on cities and counties to bulletproof their housing element EIRs. But it also creates a much "cleaner" exemption for infill housing than was previously available.