Inflation, high interest rates, and other rising costs of construction threaten to nullify recently adopted laws and policies meant to alleviate California's housing crisis.

In striking down Capitol Annex EIR, Third District tells the state which visuals to use and which alternatives to examine.

In both cases, community groups' efforts to use CEQA failed.

The latest twist in the strange tale of Terraces of Lafayette could have huge implications statewide.

The experience with both the builder's remedy and SB 9 suggest that we may have too many laws going in too many different directions at the moment.

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New public transit lines, extensions, and major upgrades have been opening up all over California lately. CP&DR reviews the impacts of these transformative, and not-so-transformative, projects.

Reversing lower court, appellate panel rules that San Francisco erred in saying high school stadium lights can be exempted from CEQA.

Short-term rental ordinance in Pacific Grove doesn't infringe on vested rights; Petaluma apartment building EIR upheld.

But measures calling for increased housing development potential met decidedly mixed results.