Note: This is the second update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law. Click ...

A new design competition is intended to spur infill projects to address housing scarcity and affordability across Los Angeles. Earlier this year, the City of Los Angeles, CityLab-UCLA, and nonprofit ...

SANTA CRUZ– A California Assembly bill, which began as a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego students, will ...

On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed two budget trailer bills into law: Assembly Bill 130 and Senate Bill 131, which reform the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) effective immediately.

The legislation requires compliance with a tribal consultation process, as well as the cleanup of sites impacted by hazardous substance contamination. Motivated project opponents will also still find ...

Many city residents will never need to know what constitutes a Pilot Residential District. The type of infill housing development a Pilot Residential District would allow isn’t going to be found in ...

The city of Cleveland Heights owns about 170 vacant lots that it has collected since the 2008 housing crisis. And while it has tried to fill these lots en masse in the past, it never worked out to the ...

YIMBYs celebrated a victory after California Gov. Gavin Newsom included changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in the budget. Supporters say the changes should make it easier, faster, and ...

A new proposal to build 768 housing units in downtown San Jose adds to California's growing housing development pipeline, ...

While legislators tout recent reforms signed into law two weeks ago as a game changer in addressing the state’s housing shortage, planners in Humboldt County aren’t expecting an immediate influx of ...

Full disclosure: While I follow infill housing developments and policies in cities across Canada, I live in Calgary and so I’m more familiar with its infill housing developments than other cities. I ...