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A new state law to create more high-density housing near transit stops by overriding local zoning restrictions may add housing units in San Diego, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, but ...

The buzz about Hive Live, a 1,050-unit mixed-use housing development proposed in Costa Mesa, appears to be over. At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Mayor John Stephens said, “The Hive is not going to ...

A failed housing project at coastal Weiti Bay, south of Whangaparāoa, became the background for an epic legal showdown. Photo / Jason Dorday A foreign landowner claims he lost millions in a collapsed ...

This Budget has a lot of significant measures aimed at addressing the housing crisis. The largest step will be reducing the VAT on sale of apartments from 13.5% to 9%. The idea is that it would kick ...

In a catastrophic miscalculation that exposes his continued attachment to failure, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 255 on Oct. 1. It was a bipartisan measure designed to expand ...

In a social media post published earlier this week, President Donald Trump called on mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “get big homebuilders going,” adding that they were ...

Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has ...