This year's land use and housing bills may focus on refining recent overwhelming policy change rather than pushing new policies forward.

Grant program would focus on commercial-to-residential conversions, community land trusts social housing, and more. Whether the idea will get through Congress is another story -- but it's part of a big Biden effort on housing supply and affordability.

But in a mixed bag of ballot measures on the March ballot, Santa Cruz shot down a slow-growth policy in the downtown, while Chico defeated two ballot measures that would have permitted a new development, and Mountain House voters OK'd cityhood.

A major project near Honda Arena and the ARTIC transit center in Anaheim is in the works, while another is planned for Santa Ana.

Brightline West, the high speed rail line from the Inland Empire to Las Vegas, may be operational by 2027 -- long before the state high speed rail system. Cities along the line are eager to capitalize on this potential transportation revolution;

In recent years, city councils across the Inland Empire--including Colton, Rialto and Riverside—have enacted moratoriums to freeze warehouse development. Others, like Jurupa Valley, have implemented other forms of control that stop short of moratoriums. Now, however, the state le

California has always had a lot of planners. But now cities and other agencies are having trouble filling positions for an increasingly stressful and busy job. It's partly because of housing prices -- but there are other reasons too.

The Regional Early Action Program has funded a lot of local planning for housing. But half of the REAP 2.0 money is being recalled.

Our review of CP& DR's most-read stories show that housing again dominated the news -- including builder's remedy, new legislation, and L.A.'s Measure ULA.

The City of Fresno is on the verge of approving a 45,000-home, 9,000-acre development area that is equal parts smart growth and sprawl

Eight builder's remedy projects in San Jose are downsizing because of the market. Can the city allow the projects to go forward and still meet its RHNA targets?

City offers density bonuses and concessions beyond state law to encourage new housing in strip mall. But many landowners are not interested.