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Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators passed a major reform of the California Environmental Quality Act on Monday. The new laws remove a key point of leverage for project opponents that has been embedded for more than a half-century in California’s development regime.
Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the construction of housing in California.
Following a three-year investigation, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Tuesday against SoCal landlord Mike Nijjar, accusing him of habitually violating habitability, tenant protection and other laws throughout the 22,000 rental housing units he owns.
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After more than five years living in a publicly owned, previously vacant duplex, Benito Flores faced down an eviction attempt Tuesday.
Two bills endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would be the most transformative changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in generations, experts said. Lawmakers hope reforms will unleash a wave of housing and public infrastructure projects.
FEMA is ignoring needs on the ground by not authorizing a commonly used program to directly rent apartment buildings and provide them to fire survivors, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) and advocates said.
A new report analyzing the 2023 collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust found problems throughout L.A.’s homeless housing system. The nonprofit’s failure serves as a warning for all supportive housing providers, researchers said.
Residents and public officials celebrated the reopening of Loma Alta Park in Altadena with expanded services and programs for those displaced by January’s Eaton Fire.
A suspected bomb blast that authorities believe was ‘an intentional act of terrorism’ outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic left one person dead and additional people injured.
