CP&DR Staff

Gov. Gavin Newsom released his last proposed budget Friday, with an emphasis on a the consolidated housing agency he promised to create - The new Housing and Homeless Agency would be spun off from a larger agency that also covers business and consumer affairs, with the Department of Housing and Community Development sitting in the new housing agency.

CP&DR Vol. 40 No. 12 December 2025 Report

Last week, state demographers reported that California’s population had increased again in 2024 – if only slightly – making the third year in a row the population had gone up. That’s a market change from the pandemic years, when the state’s population dropped significantly for the first time ever.