Newsom signs bill allowing for more homes near transit to help address California housing costs

Gov. Gavin Newsom is signing a bill that would allow for more homes to be built near transit stations, in an effort to ...

Lagoon Valley is the Northern California's first "conservation community" in Vacaville, developers say

Roughly halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento sits a new housing community that developers call the first ...
Los Angeles Times

Fighting Fire with Design: The Builders Behind Creating Climate-Resilient Communities in California

California’s landscape has always drawn people westward, from gold rush prospectors to tech entrepreneurs. But in recent years, a new kind of risk has emerged that threatens the state’s promise: fire.

Younger, richer and smaller: How California’s era of wildfire has changed communities forever

Recent large wildfires in California have changed communities forever in ways difficult to predict. Rebuilding statistics ...
Planetizen

A Wealthy California Suburb Wants to Cut its First Affordable Housing Development by Two Thirds — and Could set a Precedent

Los Altos Hills wants to alter its housing element to limit proposed new housing, a move that could run afoul of state law.