Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer has introduced his One Fresno Housing Strategy intended to improve housing affordability in response to the county's increasingly hot housing market.

State Senate leaders have proposed several plans for spending California’s budget surplus, which has grown far beyond the originally projected $29 billion. Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/28/californias-budget-surplus-has-exploded-to-68b-00028680

The City of Anaheim and the Department of Housing and Community Development have reached a settlement over Anaheim's violation of the Surplus Land Act.

A nonprofit organization connected to the California Association of Realtors, sued six cities located in Los Angeles and Orange counties, for failing to meet meet a deadline to approve updated housing elements.

President Biden has proposed a $10 billion state and local grant program that would work to roll back single-family zoning laws.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted the Safety Element Update to the county’s general plan, which will limit new development in wildfire hazard zones.

Four mostly suburban cities in Los Angeles County have filed suit against the state to block provisions of a recently adopted housing law. Read more: https://therealdeal-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/01/four-la-county-cities-sue-state-on-sb9s-split-resi-lots/amp/

A new report from the state Auditor's Office argues that the state must make better use of available property to build more housing

Attorney General Rob Bonta notified the City of Pasadena that its urgency ordinance restricting the implementation of SB 9 violates state law.

The Strategic Growth Council published the California Transportation Assessment, evaluating how transportation planning and funding in California advances the state's climate goals.

State housing officials have released a new plan that calls on cities to build a combined 2.5 million homes by 2030.

The Department of Housing and Community Development has rejected Los Angeles's Housing Element and ordered the city to rezone to add over 250,000 new homes by mid-October 2022.