After fires, a test for housing laws
By almost any measure, the spate of housing bills adopted by California lawmakers over the last five years has failed. But the January firestorm that...
California housing
Elias: Pressure builds for more office building conversions
Almost no one wants office buildings these days, either to build them or buy them. In downtown San Francisco, the April sale of an empty...
Elias: Density not proving a housing solution
California issued just 111,221 new permits last year, a 6% drop from 2022....
Elias: Housing ‘shortage’ persists amid boom
It’s hard to find a 2015-or-later vintage market-rate building without huge signs advertising vacancies. ...
California housing dreams in death spiral
Most of Sacramento’s mandated new housing will be occupied not by owners, but by tenants paying market rates or, for a few, being subsidized. ...