California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles.
Tag: California
California’s answer to its housing crisis
With high demand on top of inadequate supply, the meaning of “affordable” in the most desirable locations can be difficult to gauge. According to...
Rent control raises housing costs
A new paper analyzes the effects of rent control expansion in the city and finds that it reduced rental housing supply, causing a city...
Mixing it up
The mostly urban projects that captured the judges’ votes echo a popular and growing trend—the inclusion of ground-floor retail and dining establishments that add...
From mall to ecosystem
Construction has started on a 23-story upscale apartment tower at Westfield UTC, a one-million-sq.-ft. outdoor center in San Diego, but the project is much...
Investor’s latest sweetheart: workforce housing
There is expected demand for an additional 4.5 million new apartments in the U.S. by 2030, according to data from the Workforce Housing Committee...
A gem regains its luster and a city gains apartments
On a plot of land between Immanuel Presbyterian Church, now listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and the Ambassador Hotel, home of the...
Regulation nation
A lawyer for Duarte Nursery said the case is important because it could set a precedent requiring other farmers to obtain costly, time-consuming permits...
The camel that had no hump
This especially irritates Rob Pressman, the principal of Burbank, Calif.-based TGP, Inc. Landscape Architecture, who believes that aesthetics do not have to be discarded...
The next target in California’s drought? Renters.
The result amounted to a savings in water use in June of 23 percent, just below the mandate required by the governor.
But while single-family...
Utility costs rising
It isn’t just the additional cost that’s irking California residents—it’s the growing suspicion among neighbors suddenly stuck splitting one big water bill. A vast...
Betting on the City of Angels
Developers are seeing a diverse group of residents and buyers who want to occupy amenity-rich complexes of varying types—lofts, mid-rises and high-rises—and have worry-free,...
California offers energy efficiency financing for multifamily
In January, the state of California and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an initiative that would allow PACE financing to...
Building lures
The changes are backed by the building industry but have drawn protests from advocates for low-income tenants.
“It’s a race to the bottom,” said Darryl...
Golden bucks
Customers of California’s big utility companies will receive “climate credits,” small payments of money raised from the state’s cap-and-trade system for controlling greenhouse gas...
The golden state and distributed power
One of the state's highest-profile leadership roles has been on the issue of the environment. For example, California legislators passed and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
