Tag Archives: Builders
S.F. Mayor Wants to Speed Up Approvals for Housing Construction
Source: KQED San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday called on city departments to cut by nearly half the time it takes to issue building permits to developers constructing housing projects. Lee said speeding up the production of housing...
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Dying malls could help ease housing crisis
Source: Los Angeles Times As housing shortages persist, developers are eyeing old shopping malls—which often include large parcels of land—for redevelopment into residential projects. In California, which is suffering from severely tight...
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Economist warns that buyers face increasing troubles
Source: CNBC From a broad view, the U.S. housing market looks very healthy. Demand is high, employment and wages are growing, and mortgage rates are low. But the nation's housing market is assuredly unhealthy; in fact, it is increasingly...
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Why housing legislation won’t bring down costs anytime soon
Source: Sacramento Bee California lawmakers this year took historic action to address what one housing economist says is the state’s most serious problem: unaffordability.Democrats in the Legislature – and one Republican – have advanced...
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From ‘Not in my backyard’ to ‘Yes in my backyard’
Source: The Atlantic Real-estate developers are not popular with most of the American public. A recent Stanford paper found that people like developers only slightly more than they like corporate executives. Many progressives object to...
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State awards $62 million to fund veteran housing
Source: NBC L.A. Approximately $62 million was awarded by the state toward veteran housing developments through the Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention (VHHP) program this June. The funding is the third rould of awards given to...
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