For stumping political candidates, vowing to build affordable housing remains one of their biggest rallying cries. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised three million new housing units ...

Housing bills in California often face fierce opposition from construction unions. The carpenters’ union went their own way, becoming a “game-changing” force in the debate.

Gov. Gavin Newsom sidestepped a lengthy political battle when he signed sweeping changes recently to the California ...

The landmark environmental bill, CEQA, has been credited with preventing irreversible damage to natural habitats. But it’s also provided an avenue for resistant neighbors to block new housing in urban ...

The two bills signed by the governor create sweeping exemptions for urban infill housing developments up to 20 acres.

This bill isn’t about improving public safety, it’s about doubling-down on the criminalization of those most in need of care.

The Democratic party is in desperate need of a bully that can meet Trump where he is — and Newsom might just be the bully to ...

The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, has been around since the 1970s, but lawmakers recently passed two bills to weaken it.

The measures spearheaded by Democrats in California’s new budget will have disastrous consequences for the vast majority of ...

One of the most powerful political blocs in California, the Latino Caucus had to balance reining in Medi-Cal’s rising costs ...

California has passed two bills to reform the CEQA, limiting the use of CEQA as a tool for labor negotiations and ensuring ...