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Los Angeles Times: California’s housing crisis reaches from the homeless to the middle class — but it’s still almost impossible to fix
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council gave housing advocates a lesson in why solving the statewide crisis in housing…
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Washington Post: Soaring rents force many millennials to get help from Mom and Dad
The tradition of parents and grandparents offering down payment funds for their offspring to help them buy their first home…
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SacBee: Cheaper California housing? One idea to lower costs makes candidates for governor uneasy
It’s a controversial idea that advocates say could help alleviate California’s worsening housing crisis: strip cities of some of their…
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KCBX: Housing on the Central Coast: affordable to whom?
Can the Central Coast ever be an affordable place to live? That question was pondered Thursday at the San Luis…
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The Orange County Register: Rent control gains traction as housing costs ‘crush’ tenants
Clipboards in hand, signature-gatherers are fanning out across four Southern California cities this month, turning up at supermarkets and metro…
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Voice of OC: Orange County Declares Housing Shortage a Threat to Residents and Businesses
Orange County’s top elected officials are warning the lack of affordable housing threatens the quality of life and upward mobility…
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SFGate: City Council Follows Mayor’s Lead After Report Reveals Lack Of Affordable Housing
The San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved requests from Mayor Sam Liccardo to discuss options for improving the city’s…
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Business Times: California housing problems are spilling across to neighbouring states
A GROWING homelessness crisis. Complaints about traffic congestion. Worries that the economy is becoming dominated by a wealthy elite. Those…
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ABC 10: What you should know about development fees and the fight for affordable housing
California needs to build more affordable housing to bring down the high rental and real estate prices. In the most…
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San Jose Inside: San Jose Falls Far Short of State-Set Affordable Housing Goals
In San Jose, just as for California as a whole, population growth has far outpaced housing production, fueling a crippling affordability crisis. A…