California Department of Housing and Community Development
State Housing Regulators Find Oceanside’s SB 79 Carve-Outs Out of Compliance, Order City to Rework Transit Housing Exemptions
California's housing department has told Oceanside that its ordinance exempting and deferring land around seven Sprinter stations from SB 79 misreads the transit...
Laing Companies, Community HousingWorks Break Ground on 60-Unit Senior Affordable Project on State Land in Covina
Laing Companies and Community HousingWorks have started building a six-story, 60-unit affordable apartment community for seniors on a state-owned parcel at 233 N....
YIMBY Democrats Accuse San Diego of Stalling Kalonymus’ 23-Story Pacific Beach Tower as City Challenges Its Hotel Units
YIMBY Democrats of San Diego is pressing Mayor Todd Gloria to let city staff sign off on Kalonymus' 23-story Project Vela at 970...
Venice Community Housing, Linc Housing Launch $93MM, 120-Unit Sankofa Place Affordable Campus in Inglewood
Venice Community Housing, Linc Housing and the Social Justice Learning Institute have started construction on Sankofa Place at Centinela, a two-building, 120-unit affordable...
LA Family Housing Turns 1950s Panorama City Motel Into $57MM, 90-Home Supportive Complex Without Tax Credits
LA Family Housing and its development affiliate LAFHBUILDS have delivered The Pano, a roughly $57 million permanent supportive housing community that nearly doubles...
Affirmed Housing, MTS Announce Groundbreaking on $116MM, 147-Unit Spring View in La Mesa
Two six-story buildings with studios through three-bedroom apartments for households earning 30 to 60 percent of area median income are rising at the...
Costa Mesa Adopts Revised Housing Element, Moves to Overrule Airport Commission as State Deadline Looms
Costa Mesa's City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 1 to adopt a revised sixth-cycle housing element and to begin overruling the county's airport...
California Sues Costa Mesa, Ridgecrest and Calexico in Five-City Housing Element Crackdown
California's housing regulators dragged three Southern California cities into court over long-overdue housing plans, part of a five-city enforcement sweep that puts local...
San Diego Phases In SB 79, Unlocking Six-Story Housing Near Transit as First Maps Reveal Winners and Holdouts
As California's landmark transit-density law took effect on July 1, San Diego released its first maps identifying the neighborhoods where five- and six-story...
Huntington Beach Adopts Court-Ordered Housing Element Zoning for 13,000 Units After $170,000 in Fines
After exhausting its appeals at the state and federal level and watching the meter run on monthly penalties, the Huntington Beach City Council...
Los Angeles Mounts Three-Front Resistance to SB 79, Pushing Compliance to 2030
City Council's Alternative Plan, an LA Metro Board exemption push, and a pending Senate carve-out bill combine to delay California's flagship transit housing...
San Diego Caps SB 79 Reach to One-Mile Transit Radius as Statewide Upzoning Law Hits July 1
City Council's unanimous vote defers stop-by-stop classification to SANDAG while phasing in exemptions for fire, flood, historic and low-resource areas. California's most aggressive...
