Housing Headlines: February 23, 2023

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Blog

Every week, we round up the week’s biggest housing news from around the city, state, and country for the Abundant Housing LA blog. Locally, Huntington Beach continued its long tradition of being loud and wrong about state housing law, this time by challenging their...

Abundant Housing LA Releases Housing Element Quality Map

by | Feb 16, 2023 | Blog

LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, Abundant Housing LA is releasing a map of housing element quality in Los Angeles County. The map, which scores cities based on our assessment of their housing element, HCD certification, past performance with housing production, and the...

Housing Headlines February 14, 2023

by | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog

Every week, we round up the week’s biggest housing news for the Abundant Housing LA newsletter. The LA Times documented the “financial implosion” of the Skid Row Housing Trust, Mayor Bass’ effort to use vacant city-owned properties for housing, Utah Governor Spencer...

SB 423 Would Be A Very Big Deal

by | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog

Today, Scott Wiener made news by introducing SB 423, which extends and strengthens his landmark 2018 housing streamlining law law SB 35. This post is about what SB 35 does and why SB 423 matters. Most people think that building housing is pretty straightforward:...

Lee Ohanian Does Not Understand the Housing Element Process

by | Feb 7, 2023 | Blog

Lee Ohanian at the Hoover Institute has typed out a post about California’s RHNA system in an attempt to dunk on it from the right as some kind of Soviet central planning exercise. Ohanian’s piece makes a series of basic factual errors about the Housing Element update...

Housing Headlines: Feb 6 2023

by | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog

Every Monday, we round up the week’s biggest housing news for the Abundant Housing LA newsletter. Here in LA, the Times covered a proposal to build 800 apartments over a Costco in Baldwin Village and Steph Curry’s “I don’t want to say NIMBY, but” public comment letter...