THE AHLA BLOGS

Abundant Housing Applauds Governor Newsom’s Signature of Housing Legislation Including AB 2011 and SB 6, Legalizing New Housing in Commercial Zones, and SB 886, Allowing Student Housing The new laws will make new housing more affordable, easier to build, and more environmentally friendly while creating good jobs. LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, Governor Newsom made history by […]

An interview with Nolan Gray on the history of zoning for exclusion and how a new approach to land use regulation could make our cities better. By Jacob Pierce Few situations look more complicated than California’s housing crisis. But sometimes, through a certain lens, the whole situation is actually quite simple. Here’s an example: there’s […]

The 2022 Point In Time Count Shows A Continued Increase In Homelessness, Highlighting The Need For More Housing In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES – Today’s release of the Point In Time homelessness count numbers shows a 4.1% increase in homelessness in Los Angeles County from 2020. Despite the city and county’s efforts to prevent homelessness […]

2022 has the potential to be an important year for California housing legislation. Nine of the bills Abundant Housing supported made it out of the Legislature and will live or die on Governor Newsom’s desk before the end of September. We also supported SCA 2 (Allen and Wiener), a proposed state constitutional amendment that will […]

As my family has dealt with a round of (thankfully mild) covid-19 infections over the past couple weeks, I have been motivated to look at some academic research about covid as it relates to urban design and housing policy. In this post I’ll be looking at Hamidi et al. (2020) “Does Density Aggravate the COVID-19 […]