California lawmakers have exempted most urban housing development from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

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

Newsom described the bills as the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of ...

The biggest housing news in California this week was the ending of a major portion of the California Environmental Quality ...

— Assembly member Buffy Wicks, an East Bay Democrat whose bill to shield new “infill” urban apartment development of less ...

California has passed two bills to reform the CEQA, limiting the use of CEQA as a tool for labor negotiations and ensuring ...

A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of California’s preeminent environmental law ...

A law passed in the final day of the state legislative session means developers can build more apartment buildings — and build them faster — than ever before. These projects will no longer face the ...

California lawmakers today approved one of the most substantial rollbacks of the state’s signature environmental review law ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law sweeping reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and ...

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 ...