Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Housing

San Diego eliminated parking requirements in new developments near transit in 2019. Photo: Rupert Essinger / Esri

Parking Requirements Are Not a Useful Bargaining Chip for Increasing Affordable Housing

By Anthony Dedousis, Mott Smith and Michael Manville | May 19, 2021 | No Comments

Opponents of A.B. 1401 concede that parking requirements are bad policy, but worry that removing them will undermine affordable housing production. Evidence suggests that's not the case.

United Caltrans Tenants Oppose State Legislation on Home Sales

By Damien Newton | May 14, 2021 | No Comments

"Unlike Caltrans, local governments have an interest in preventing evictions and making successful sales to tenants because these are their constituents," explains Timothy Ivison with UCT.

Activists Urge L.A. City to Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments

FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

It's not much of a stretch to allow duplexes like this everywhere in Berkeley. They're already there. Photo by Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

City of Berkeley Is 2nd CA City to Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning

By Melanie Curry | Feb 24, 2021 | No Comments

The legacy of exclusionary zoning is that it deprived certain communities the luxury of stability and wealth accumulation, which has left them more vulnerable to displacement as their neighborhoods become more attractive and accessible to wealthier outsiders.

A woman unlocks the door to an apartment

L.A. Mayor Garcetti to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds

By Damien Newton | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?

Should Blind People in Berkeley Be Required to Buy Parking Spaces?

By Patrick Siegman | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

The City of Berkeley will be considering this question on Tuesday afternoon, when the City Council is scheduled to once again take up the topic of minimum parking regulations

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