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For Sacramento and Berkeley, the hard part is still coming: How to create a development code that will encourage rather than block other small-scale housing products.

In Marin City, a clever developer is building a project double the allowed size with very little parking and few other amenities -- and the county couldn't do anything to stop it.

<p>A lifetime urban dweller, Donald Trump was an anti-city president. Biden is a lifelong Amtrak rider -- and California urban planning is likely to change with him at the helm.</p>

The law has proven stubbornly resistant to reform. But cities and other lead agencies are learning how to end-run the whole process.

Embarcadero Institute says RHNA numbers are too high and the state should focus on affordable housing. The truth is we need both: more housing

Housing experts say small projects will cost less and be easier to build than large multifamily projects weighted down by affordable housing and union labor requirements.

State-federal transportation and infrastructure projects likely won't be analyzed under federal law. But new rule could be reversed if Biden wins.

Well, it took COVID-19 to knock the housing crisis off the front page of California’s newspapers. Or, maybe more to the point, COVID-19 has caused coverage of the housing crisis to morph into additional coverage of the virus, with a focus not on NIMBY v. YIMBY but on housing the homeless, banning evictions, and desperate families squatting in vacant houses.

It's been a non-starter for years. But all the Democratic candidates are calling for it -- and Trump might not be far behind.

How can you reduce emissions, reduce risks from wildfire, sea-level rise, and other effects of climate change -- and still build enough housing so Californians will want to stay?

Over the past three years, the state has focused on ministerial approval, ADUs, and beefing up the housing element progress. But will all these changes result in more housing construction?

Calfornia's system of habitat conservation planning may be strong enough to withstand the federal government's attack on the Endangered Species Act.