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Newsom's infrastructure plan could shorten construction of bridges, broadband, water projects and highway maintenance by three years and save the state millions of dollars.

Mark Adams is overseeing the welfare of 1,500 tenants in Skid Row. In prior cases involving Adams, tenants faced the risk of eviction and property owners lost their houses.

Despite Coronado's defiance, the state has not yet enforced the law against the city.

The affluent island town has failed to submit a housing element that meets the state’s requirements for affordable housing production.

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When Gavin Newsom was running for California governor in 2017, he famously vowed to “lead the effort to build the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025.” Newsom conceded that the goal was “audacious” but argued that “our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big.”1 Everyone agreed that California’s housing problem was big. What drew skepticism was the prospect of building 3.5 million homes by 2025.

Rent-control supporters argued the state's 5-percent-plus-inflation rent cap struck a balance between supply and stability. Lawmakers are trying to lower it.

For months, many have wondered if Ron DeSantis will run for the White House. We keep getting hints he will.

LOS ANGELES — Despite the conventional wisdom, not everybody drives all the time in Los Angeles. Those who don’t, it turns out, pay more of a price in terms of

The episode has garnered attention in political circles, including bipartisan calls for a congressional investigation into the company at the center of the disaster.