California's housing-crisis crackdown includes a stunning new look at just how many homes in your neighborhood are owned by Wall Street companies.

California offers a state-level low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) in addition to a federal program, which can help compensate for a deal’s lack of soft funding by generating additional ...

Institutional investors buying single-family rentals are being accused of squeezing private buyers out of the market. Now ...

Santa Cruz County in deep blue California was named the least affordable U.S. rental market in 2025, requiring $81.21/hour to ...

A bill in the California legislature claims it would lower housing costs by imposing limits on the roles that large financial institutions can play in the single-family home market. The ...

The city of Torrance has launched a new effort to block the conversion of a 122-room hotel into permanent housing for the ...

Like many of California's problems, the insurance crisis is a self-inflicted wound—in this case, one suffered when residents and regulators turned a once-competitive market for insurance into a ...

California is finally getting a state agency dedicated solely to housing issues, which could help solve the housing ...

A bipartisan coalition, organized by Nicole Nosek, played a role in getting the Legislature to pass laws tackling the state’s ...

Why It Matters. The California housing market experienced great changes during the pandemic, when the rise of remote work allowed many homeowners to relocate from metropolises—such as San ...

California is facing an unprecedented housing crisis defined by scarcity, affordability, and exclusion, and denying this ...

A new threat to homeownership isn't coming from interest rates or home prices—it's coming from vanishing insurance coverage.