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A law barring monthly rents of more than $10,000 for new listings is stopping high-end homes from going on the market, real estate agents and brokers say. Such homes could be in demand for wealthy ...
2021 California Senate Bill 9 (SB 9), [1] titled the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, is a 2021 California state law which creates a legal process by which owners of certain single-family homes in single-family zoned areas may build or split homes on their property, and prohibits all cities and counties from directly interfering with those who wish to build such ...
A survey conducted in October 2018 by the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California found that 28% of eligible California voters believed that the lack of rent control was the main contributing factor to California's housing affordability crisis. 24% of respondents believed that the most significant cause of the housing crisis ...
The 2019 California Energy Code became effective on January 1, 2020. [5] It focuses on such areas such as residential photovoltaic systems, thermal envelope standards and non-residential lighting requirements. Homes built under this code are about 53% more energy efficient than those built to comply with the 2016 Energy Code. [6]
The League of California Cities, whose members include almost every city in the state, cited insufficient staff to deal with the influx of housing applications under new state laws requiring ...
Leaders of the Energy Commission say the new building standards will help the state reach building decarbonization goals.
California is the most expensive state to rent in, in the United States. [11] California has had a housing shortage since 1970 and ranks 49th among 50 states for housing units per capita. [12] The problem has worsened following the Great Recession as housing development fell to 40,000 units in 2009 and has not reached pre-recession levels. [13]
Thousands of California migrant farmworkers are required to leave their housing annually, leaving units empty for months — but a new law might change that. ... Today, only about 8% of the ...