Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Housing

SCAG's SoCal Greenprint helps make it possible to plan for a future with plentiful housing options and green, healthy communities. Photo by OCParks_CA

Southern California Doesn’t Have to Choose Between Housing and the Environment

By Leonora Camner | Oct 7, 2021 | No Comments

SCAG's SoCal Greenprint mapping tool is a free, optional-to-use tool compiling data on natural resources. SoCal Greenprint was to launch this fall, before it received criticism.

The entrance to Pacific Sunset is so unassuming, I would have missed it if I hadn't already known it was there. Photo: Damien Newton

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Pacific Sunset Bridge Housing Serves Those Who Need It Most

By Damien Newton | Oct 1, 2021 | No Comments

Venice's Pacific Sunset has become a focal point in the regional debate over homelessness.

Tenants in this building say they are prepared to buy the property, and should have right of first refusal, but Caltrans doesn't agree. Image: Google Street View

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CTC Delays Weighing in on Sale of Multi-Family Property in South Pasadena

By Melanie Curry | Jun 28, 2021 | No Comments

Tenants, City say they had first right of refusal; Caltrans claimed a strict "decision waterfall" was preventing them from doing the right thing

Image grom the cover of TransForm's report: Measuring the Promise of Transit-Oriented Development.

Report: How to Prioritize Housing and Right-Size Parking at Transit Stations

By Melanie Curry | Jun 17, 2021 | No Comments

TransForm analyzed plans for housing at several urban rail stations, offering ideas about how to best achieve goals on reducing single occupant vehicle trips to transit stations.

San Diego eliminated parking requirements in new developments near transit in 2019. Photo: Rupert Essinger / Esri

Parking Requirements Are Not a Useful Bargaining Chip for Increasing Affordable Housing

By Anthony Dedousis, Mott Smith and Michael Manville | May 19, 2021 | No Comments

Opponents of A.B. 1401 concede that parking requirements are bad policy, but worry that removing them will undermine affordable housing production. Evidence suggests that's not the case.

United Caltrans Tenants and supporters holding a posada on Sheffield Ave. to draw attention to the empty homes issue, December 2018. Image : United Caltrans Tenants

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United Caltrans Tenants Oppose State Legislation on Home Sales

By Damien Newton | May 14, 2021 | No Comments

"Unlike Caltrans, local governments have an interest in preventing evictions and making successful sales to tenants because these are their constituents," explains Timothy Ivison with UCT.

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