HB 24 won’t solve everything, but it’s a strong step toward the basics: letting more people build homes in the places where people already want to live.

Soltas’s most provocative finding is that, after adjusting for neighborhood differences, inclusionary housing doesn’t appear much more expensive than other housing programs. It only seems costly because it deliberately locates affordable units in high-cost areas—something vouchers and tax credits typically don’t do.

WiIn a region already facing a staggering shortfall of more than half a million homes, the authors lay bare how Los Angeles’s permitting delays—averaging 15 months for a single-family home—compound the crisis.

That sense of identity and place that homegrown businesses create—that’s what we want to preserve here," Sean Donaghy told the local news back in February. In 2013, Sean and his wife, Amy, purchased the building that now houses the Washington General Store. More than just a place to pick up essentials, the store has become a gathering space where locals can grab a hot meal or stock up on everything from chainsaw oil to craft beer. Their customers include farmers, out-of-towners, and a motley crew of regulars. “Someone will come in and brighten my day, or I’ll brighten theirs just

Without land-use reform, new investment in transit could raise property values along key corridors while preventing new housing supply—exacerbating displacement and driving lower-income residents further from the very services designed to help them.