Driving much of the dysfunction is a progressive regulatory structure that smothers builders under mountains of red tape ...

San Diego lawmakers pushed for amendments to a tax credit that could help a fledgling studio set to open in Chula Vista.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

The regulations have long been blamed for the state's chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

Just this week, after a decade of failed efforts, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to reform the state’s signature ...

Newsom muscles Legislature into reining in the California Environmental Quality Act, which reminds us that change is ...

While making cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster ...

New legislation exempts virtually all infill housing projects from CEQA’s provisions, making it more difficult for opponents ...

One of the most powerful political blocs, the Latino Caucus had to balance reining in Medi-Cal's rising costs with helping undocumented immigrants. All but four overcame their misgivings and cut their ...

There’s no shortage of opinions on California’s newly-passed state budget bill — and the sweeping housing reforms and new ...

California just demonstrated that Democrats don’t need to accept these failures. Acquiescing to scarcity — for the sake of avoiding change or intraparty tension — is a choice. Democrats can make a ...