Exemptions and ministerial processes are changing CEQA practice, end-running the law. >>read more

Thanks to SB 375, we have all kinds of transportation and land use policies designed to reduce driving. It's time to start figuring out whether they work. >>read more

Paradise turns all of our ideas about wildfire management upside down. >>read more

Exemption for historic landmarks could limit law's use in exactly the locations where housing should be built. >>read more

After 40 years, some pieces of the initiative are baked into California's political DNA. But reforms could help alleviate the housing crisis. >>read more

The housing crisis requires both-and solutions -- not either-or solutions. Rent control might be part of the answer, but much more is required. >>read more

New Census figures show that net out-migration isn't bad statewide -- but it's terrible in Los Angeles. >>read more

The frame is different, but Jerry Brown is using climate change to pursue the same goals he laid out in the 1970s. >>read more

Cities need fiscal incentives to approve more housing. >>read more

Counties are putting more structures in harm's way in wildfires. And nobody wants to pay for it. >>read more

Forget comprehensive CEQA reform. In Sacramento and cities across California, the end-run is the thing. >>read more