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Nov 4, 2024 The city of Belmont has taken a step to address housing needs by adopting an updated 2023-2031 Housing Element, a blueprint that aims to improve housing availability and affordability over the next seven years. The City Council adopted the plan on Sep. 10, 2024, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) recently certified it as compliant with California’s Housing Read More
Nov 5, 2024 As Americans cast their votes in an election dominated by debates over inflation and the cost of living, a ballot measure in Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state is dividing the Democratic Party on the issue of how to address skyrocketing rents. Proposition 33—dubbed the Justice for Renters Act—would repeal the state’s controversial Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which for Read More
Oct 30, 2024 Upon graduating from Nevada Union High School in the Summer of 2003, the plan for many in that class of new graduates was to go to college and move back home after securing a job with the help of a fancy new degree. Between the slower pace of rural living in the idyllic foothills and the natural Read More
Oct 24, 2024 California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather, sunny beaches, Hollywood and the Golden Gate Bridge, the sky-high cost of housing has become part of the state’s national identity. The high cost of housing touches virtually every aspect of Read More
Oct 18, 2024 In August, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his working-man’s clothes—aviators, jeans, and a trucker hat—starred in a video where he carted people’s possessions out of a homeless encampment near a Los Angeles highway. On any given night in 2023, more than 650,000 people in the US experienced homelessness, with almost 400,000 unsheltered—though that figure may be an underestimate. Research by the federal Government Accountability Read More
Oct 15, 2024 California voters will decide a statewide proposition this fall that would make it easier for governments to borrow money for affordable housing and local infrastructure projects by changing a voter-approval requirement that dates to the late 1800s. Under current California law, local governments seeking bonds to pay for projects like parks, police and fire stations, and affordable Read More
Oct 15, 2024 California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather, sunny beaches, Hollywood and the Golden Gate Bridge, the skyhigh cost of housing has become part of the state’s national identity. The high cost of housing touches virtually every aspect of Read More
Oct 15, 2024 Celia Jiménez here, thinking about Terracina at The Dunes, a 142-apartment affordable housing community right off Highway 1 in Marina. It’s a project I’ve seen from start to finish while driving on Imjin Parkway, and I’ve reported extensively about it. I recently walked in one of the two properties built by USA Properties Fund, an affordable housing developer from Roseville. Read More
Oct 15, 2024 The Santa Monica City Council has a development and disposition agreement for the former site of Parking Structure 3 at 1318 4th Street, clearing the way for EAH Housing to begin seeking public financing for a proposed affordable housing complex which would rise on the property. A design concept approved earlier this year calls for the site to be developed Read More
Oct 8, 2024 Members of the community celebrated the renovation of the Shotover Inn apartments on Wednesday at 325 Broadway in Hamilton City. While looking for a place that could accommodate people with disabilities, renter Cecilia Valerdi stumbled upon Shotover Inn apartments. Though she has only lived in the apartments since June, Valerdi said her life has been positively impacted because of the accommodations Read More