Rahm Emanuel's infamous dictum -- "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" -- is alive and well in the Golden State, apparently. A little over a half a year on from the destruction wrought by ...

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Affordable housing in California costs 65% more to develop than market-rate housing, according to a recent study. It's also much more expensive than housing built in other states. Developers and ...

The California Senate has passed Senate Bill 549, which will enable Los Angeles to purchase land devastated by wildfires to develop low-income housing. This legislation aims to use property taxes to ...

California lawmakers are preparing for a historic surge in federal funding for affordable housing construction, a tsunami of subsidy that advocates say could as much as double the number of low-rent ...

A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California, according to a report. The distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, ...

For developers trying to finance an affordable housing project, the process is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle — but every piece comes with a fee to take it out of the box and requires attorneys ...

Beginning Jan. 1, landlords will be required to provide all apartments with a working stove and refrigerator thanks to a new state law. It marks the end of an unusual, decades-long phenomenon mostly ...

President Donald Trump took aim at California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday afternoon, criticizing a low-income housing plan in Los Angeles. Newsom has emerged as a leading Democratic foil to Trump ...