The metric by which transportation impacts are analyzed under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) has changed, and real estate developers are quickly realizing that it is affecting the economic bottom line of...more
Real estate developers in “infill” locations are wise to consider the streamlined, ministerial review process offered by California Senate Bill SB 35 (“SB 35”) for qualifying infill housing projects in cities that do not meet...more
Developers have new powerful tools to suspend restrictions on housing development and reduce the time it takes to approve housing developments in California. The recently adopted Housing Crisis Act of 2019 (“SB 330”) aims to...more
San Francisco’s city government now requires private property owners to give non-profits the first right to purchase most multi-family residential properties with three or more residential rental units....more
With the enactment of the Tenant Protection Act, California now has a combination of eviction protection for residential tenants and vacancy decontrol, consisting of regulation of rent increases during the tenancy, which is...more