Our View: State housing mandates finally have some teeth
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Ventura County leaders discuss housing shortages at conference in Oxnard
In 2021, California lawmakers in Sacramento passed at least 35 measures to address the housing crisis in the state. Local municipalities across California are dealing with a flurry of new housing-related laws and measures that could reshape the state’s housing landscape, and shift the balance of power on housing regulations away from cities and counties Read More →
Governor signs bills that promise more housing density
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Our View: Ventura is on the right track when it comes to housing
For the first time in decades, there is a bit of a building boom going on in Ventura, and construction appears to be happening where it is urgently needed: in housing for the city’s current and future workforce. As Staff Writer Brooke Holland wrote in the Sept. 3 edition of the Business Times, the burst Read More →
Real Estate: UCSB faces housing crunch, could place students in hotels
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Ventura’s building boom: City has more than 2,200 housing units in the works
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Our view: NIMBYism is ‘a moral failing’
When it comes to no-growth politics and economic inequality, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond does not pull any punches. At a United Way of Ventura County symposium on homelessness on April 9, the Princeton sociologist described NIMBY-ism as a root cause of rising homelessness because of the way it breaks the bottom rungs of the Read More →
