Between an increasingly influential union and a new state housing agency, one of California’s biggest crises is getting a shakeup.

Cabaldon noted that executive reorganizations are a semi-regular feature of California governance. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency is itself the product of a reorganization which ...

Housing bills in California often face fierce opposition from construction unions, but this time, the carpenters’ union went ...

President Donald Trump is escalating his pressure campaign to get the Federal Reserve chairman to either lower interest rates ...

During academic year 2024-25, the NBER is providing fellowship support for graduate students studying the economics of aging and health, behavioral macroeconomics, and consumer financial management.

The landmark environmental bill, CEQA, has been credited with preventing irreversible damage to natural habitats. But it’s also provided an avenue for resistant neighbors to block new housing in urban ...

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

MOMENTS BEFORE an important budget vote last week, state Sen. María Elena Durazo stood on the Senate floor and spoke passionately about the plight of ...

California's high poverty rate is largely due to high housing costs, and addressing this by building more housing could be a necessary condition for solving the state's poverty problem.

This administration seems to relish the cruelty of these actions. “Alligator Alcatraz” is an example of this. It’s in the ...

“Pricing algorithms are, in fact, extremely common tools that enable businesses to save money, improving efficiency by ...

The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her ...