by jpitney | Apr 4, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California Evidence and Policy Recommendations Jason M. Ward, Luke Schlake https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html In this report, the authors present analyses of production cost differences among...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing, Regulation
LINDSEY HOLDEN and DUSTIN GARDINER at POLITICO: California Democrats are feeling the weight of the state’s crushing housing crisis in a particularly acute way. Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener and other Democratic lawmakers...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2025 | Homelessness, Housing
Ben Christopher at CalMatters: One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into fonts of new affordable housing. A third would, according to...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2025 | Homelessness
.@jaredpolis: “Get government out of the way. The market and the price of housing is a function of supply and demand. The fact that demand is high in Colorado is wonderful…but we have artificial government-imposed constraints on supply.”...
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2024 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
California is nearly four times larger than North Carolina by population. And yet they build the same amount of new housing per year. https://t.co/d9ew5unkFf — Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) November 23, 2024
by jpitney | Sep 10, 2024 | California Politics, Homelessness
Lynn La at CalMatters: An exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest California homeless count reveals some good news and bad news: Though the growth rate of homelessness appears to be slowing, the overall number of unhoused Californians increased from two years ago....
