News Briefs

California Forever, the parent company behind the East Solano Plan to build a new city of up to 400,000 residents on the northeastern edge of the Bay Area, reached an agreement with Solano County on a new process for advancing the plan

Attorney General Rob Bonta is appealing a Superior Court decision that halted the enforcement of Senate Bill 9 in charter cities

The Department of Housing and Community Development has determined that the City and County of San Francisco missed its housing permitting goals in 2023

HUD awarded $85 million in grants for the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing program. California jurisdictions received a total of $15 million and four of the 20 grants awarded nationwide

The REAP 2.0 grants got reinstated -- but MPOs must obligate the funds by September. Meanwhile, affordable housing lost $1 billion.

The Department of Insurance has drafted regulations that would allow insurance companies to use predictive catastrophe models if, and only if, they increase writing of policies in wildfire distressed areas

The Sites Reservoir, the state's largest water storage venture in nearly five decades, overcame environmental challenges in court, with the Yolo County Superior Court ruling favor of the project

San Francisco's plan to transform the Transbay Transit Center into the "Grand Central Station of the West" has garnered $3.4 billion from the federal government

The City of Oakland has reached a tentative deal to sell its share of the Coliseum site to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group

Governor Newsom's "May revise" of his 2024-25 budget includes significant cuts to one-time and ongoing spending by over $33 billion through 2025-26, affecting key programs aimed at increasing affordable housing

The Wonderful Co. is proposing a significant expansion of industrial warehousing near the Kern County town of Shafter, aiming to capitalize on the rise of online shopping

California Forever has submitted enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot that would permit the company to develop a city of up to 400,000 people in Solano County