News Briefs

A new SB 330 pre-application project in Palo Alto would include nine units of affordable housing out of a proposed 45-unit building, with plans to invoke the “builder’s remedy.

The Huntington Beach city council again deadlocked and failed to adopt its Sixth Cycle housing element.

The Strategic Growth Council (SGC) announced $99.2 in funding opportunities for neighborhood-serving capital infrastructure projects in historically underserved communities.

The American Planning Association of California released its 2023-2023 Legislation Platform outlining priorities in the next two years of statewide city planning issues.

Developers in Southern California filed 26 builder's remedy projects as of late January, allocating 1,795 of the 8,642 new homes as low-income housing.

The Huntington Beach City Attorney announced he is preparing a lawsuit to protest the city’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation of 13,368 units, and hte city will not recognize builder's remedy appplications.

A group of landlords and property owners along with the San Francisco Apartment Association are suing the city over "The Empty Home Tax,"

With San Francisco's Housing Element certified by the state, Mayor London Breed announced an overhaul of the city's housing policies.

The Department of General Services in partnership with the Department of Housing and Community Development released an interactive public map of property identified by local governments to help developers find land for housing development.

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) released a new estimate that puts the cost of extending Caltrain 1.3 miles to the Salesforce Tower in downtown San Francisco at $6.7 billion.

Downtown San Francisco has the slowest COVID-19 recovery of 61 cities in North America studied by the University of Toronto.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office's review of the California Air Resources Board’s updated Scoping Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions reveals that the plan does not provide enough specific policies or guidelines to achieve 2030 targets.