California’s new environmental reform law, backed by carpenters, eases housing construction rules but deepens divisions ...

Between an increasingly influential union and a new state housing agency, one of California’s biggest crises is getting a shakeup.

During academic year 2024-25, the NBER is providing fellowship support for graduate students studying the economics of aging and health, behavioral macroeconomics, and consumer financial management.

The landmark environmental bill, CEQA, has been credited with preventing irreversible damage to natural habitats. But it’s also provided an avenue for resistant neighbors to block new housing in urban ...

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

MOMENTS BEFORE an important budget vote last week, state Sen. María Elena Durazo stood on the Senate floor and spoke ...

California's high poverty rate is largely due to high housing costs, and addressing this by building more housing could be a necessary condition for solving the state's poverty problem.

For Black Americans, the homeownership gains that occurred between 2019 and 2023 have halted. Last year, the white-Black homeownership gap remained stuck at 27.7 percentage points, and the same ...

This administration seems to relish the cruelty of these actions. “Alligator Alcatraz” is an example of this. It’s in the ...

Marcel Rodarte is the executive director of California Contract Cities Association (CCCA), an organization representing over ...

While housing advocates applauded the State Legislature’s new CEQA reforms, environmental activists said it will degrade ...