Elias: The housing density rebellion begins
A new initiative would let local officials or voters override laws the Legislature passes or has passed that regulate housing and land use....
SB 10
Elias: Local control backers attempt new initiative
The folks who vowed in 2021 they’d repeal SB 9 and 10 hope to circulate petitions for a new initiative aimed at those laws and...
Elias: Facts don’t matter to California’s densifying Democrats
There appears to be no end to the new laws that legislators want to pass to make California at least as dense as New York...
California housing battles heating up
As long as California has been a state, the most basic function of local governments has been to decide where housing will or won't go....
San Marcos council adopts resolution endorsing local land use initiative
SAN MARCOS — The San Marcos City Council has voted to support a ballot initiative that asserts the authority of local municipalities and city governments...
Attorney general spurs on big 2022 housing battle
Rob Bonta, a former ultra-liberal assemblyman named attorney general, has assured that housing will vie to be the year’s No. 1 issue....