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

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

This is a failure, not least because the government has managed to turn public transit and city sidewalks into filthy encampments and dangerous zombie drug dens.

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

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not willing to invest enough political capital to ...

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

According to CalMatters, the law allows high-tech manufacturing facilities to be built in areas already zoned for industrial ...

Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a spending plan that, by emergency proclamation, enables access to the budget ...

Gavin Newsom's about-face on anti-development environmental restrictions is welcome, but it does not touch the underlying ...

New California state laws will make it easier for developers to build housing in areas of Sacramento that are outside downtown and midtown. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed laws to loosen parts of ...

Housing projects up to 85 feet high on lots in existing neighborhoods, known as infill, are now exempt from environmental ...

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