Policy
California Breaks CEQA Barrier To Reignite Housing Production
Championed aggressively by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the historic environmental law reform unlocks the potential for infill housing—and could become a model for other high-barrier states.
Policy
Locked-Out Of FOMO Rush, Would-Be Buyers Delay Dreams
As FHA and VAA homebuyer share shrinks, a torrid market decouples from a materially-important domino-effect buyer pool. What's left is a discretionary universe of prospects with cash.
Policy
New Or Used: Housing's Public Enemy No. 1 Is The Public Itself
Much as they'd rather not face it if they don't have to, builders and their business partners face a critical challenge to get out of a victim-villain vicious circle, and start winning over voters.
Policy
A 20-Year Gap Of 5 Million Homes Not Built Defines '20s Challenge
In shock-therapy approach, the National Association of Realtors calls on lawmakers to call housing what it is ... infrastructure, and fund it accordingly.
Policy
A Tale Of Two Markets: Housing's Split Personality Challenges All
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies annual analysis, "The State of The Nation's Housing 2021," releases today, diving deep in the data that tells housing's sharp divides.
Land
Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys
Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.
