Peninsula city must meet ambitious RHNA target -- but passage of Measure Y maintains current height and density standards with little flexibility. >>read more

60% of Orange County cities challenge their targets, which are much higher than last time around >>read more

Does the Embarcadero Institute's push to lower the state's housing need from 2 million to 1 million really change anything? >>read more

Embarcadero Institute says RHNA numbers are too high and the state should focus on affordable housing. The truth is we need both: more housing and more affordable housing. >>read more

Southern California and Bay Area MPOs must get more aggressive to meet RHNA goals and SB 375 goals. >>read more

New HCD data shows California knows how to build for the top of the market -- and nobody else. >>read more

SB 50 went down in flames once more. But the bill gave the state cover for other bills that would otherwise would have been considered radical. And RHNA is forcing upzoning all over the state. >>read more

The Southern California Association of Governments Regional Council voted to accept 1,344,770 new housing units in the six-county region. >>read more

Over the past three years, the state has focused on ministerial approval, ADUs, and beefing up the housing element progress. But will all these changes result in more housing construction? >>read more

HCD assigned SCAG a far more aggressive housing target than it had asked for: 1,344,770. >>read more