News Briefs

The state recently dropped this lawsuit against the federal government and will proceed with High Speed Rail using state funds, including $1 billion per year allocated from the state's cap-and-trade revenues

Los Angeles advocacy group Consumer Watchdog withdrew its Insurance Policyholder Bill of Rights, which would have required insurers to offer coverage to homeowners who fireproof their homes following the withdrawal of a competing industry measure

Los Angeles will expand its adaptive reuse policy, allowing office and commercial buildings to be converted into housing citywide, per a unanimous vote of the City Council

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to adopt the Family Zoning Plan, which will allow taller and more dense buildings particularly in the residential north and west sides of the city

A nonprofit group based in the desert town of Shoshone, California in Inyo County has formed to propose a 1.2 million-acre Amargosa Basin National Monument

Five years after its approval by voters, litigation over San Diego's Measure C hotel tax has concluded with California's Fourth District Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the measure

With a city council vote last week, Los Angeles will reduce its cap on annual rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments from 3-8% to 1-4%, the first change to rent stabilization in LA in 40 years

Mayor Karen Bass announced that Los Angeles will lift its homelessness state of emergency, marking the end of the executive powers that enabled rapid action through measures like Inside Safe and Executive Directive 1

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's proposed "Family Zoning" is facing criticism from the City Controller's office, which contends that economic conditions will produce less than half the intended number of units

The draft Plan Bay Area 2050+ presents 35 regional strategies designed to guide housing, transportation, the economy and the environment through 2050 in the Bay Area

California Forever, the proposed new city northeast of the Bay Area, has submitted a formal application to Suisun City for the Suisun Expansion Project