Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Housing

Activists Urge L.A. City to Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments

FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

It's not much of a stretch to allow duplexes like this everywhere in Berkeley. They're already there. Photo by Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

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City of Berkeley Is 2nd CA City to Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning

By Melanie Curry | Feb 24, 2021 | No Comments

The legacy of exclusionary zoning is that it deprived certain communities the luxury of stability and wealth accumulation, which has left them more vulnerable to displacement as their neighborhoods become more attractive and accessible to wealthier outsiders.

A woman unlocks the door to an apartment

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L.A. Mayor Garcetti to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds

By Damien Newton | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?

Should Blind People in Berkeley Be Required to Buy Parking Spaces?

By Patrick Siegman | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

The City of Berkeley will be considering this question on Tuesday afternoon, when the City Council is scheduled to once again take up the topic of minimum parking regulations

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Want More Transit? Develop and Tax the Land Around Stations

By Roger Rudick | Dec 10, 2020 | No Comments

New study underscores the value of station-area development--and how it can be used to fund transit extensions

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124-Unit Project at 4242 S. Crenshaw Approved by City Planning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 11, 2020 | No Comments

The largely market-rate project is one of over half a dozen that were recently completed or are in the works along Crenshaw between Exposition and 61st.

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