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As America’s homelessness crisis deepens, California has become a national model for successful Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) projects. Drawing on both local and state support, these PSH projects provide critical pathways to safety for people at risk of homelessness or for those already living on the streets.

As tort reforms addressing property claims continue to develop nationwide, California developers and housing providers are championing the passage of Senate Bill 84.

In January 2025, wildfires tore through Southern California, destroying over 16,000 structures and causing an estimated $45 billion in insured losses. Although the fires were the catastrophic, no multifamily affordable housing developments were destroyed.

In 2007, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) began exploring the possibility of a major redevelopment that would reshape Jordan Downs, one of the city’s most troubled areas.

Creative land development uses are always noteworthy. Consider Oak Gardens in Menlo Park, CA. This permanent supportive housing project for veterans has utilized the Congressionally authorized Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transform underused land on a VA property into a viable project.

Uncertainty about federal cuts to housing programs is spreading through affordable housing markets nationwide as developers struggle to pencil out deals. LA is a salient case after the Housing Authority City of Los Angeles paused the processing of Section 8 applications, leaving developers with projects in the pipeline.

Governor Gavin Newsom of California unveiled his budget plan for 2025-26. This $322 billion budget included one critical component for the state’s many housing professionals: a proposed reorganization of the numerous housing programs administered by the executive into a new California Housing and Homelessness Agency.

California’s vast and diverse landscape leads to significant housing demand. Housing production meets only about 15 percent of the needed 3.5 million units by 2030.

After having chronicled how entities endure for better, for a long time, and for worse, we arrive, belatedly, at the nastiest question of them all: When an organization has gone past the tipping point and its consumption of resources exceeds the impact it delivers with those resources, what happens then? 

After interviewing hundreds of real estate developers, architects, and planners, Jenny Song came to a simple conclusion: local governments’ entitlements and permitting systems are broken.

California has many programs to boost affordable housing. One example is the No Place Like Home (NPLH) program, which helped fund Siskiyou Crossroads’ rural housing project in Yreka, CA.

Operating over 100 affordable housing communities across nine states, LDG Development has implemented a suite of security systems tailored to the specific safety needs of each of its unique developments.