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As reported earlier this year by the Wall Street Journal, fewer than 500 homes have been built since a 2021 law, SB 9, was passed allowing owners to split their single family home lots in two, and ...
Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, rose 3.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.050 million units last month, the highest level since February 2024 ...
Building permits for single-family housing rose 0.3% to a rate of 970,000 units last month. They increased in the West and Midwest, but declined in the Northeast and South. Permits were 1.2% lower ...
2021 California Senate Bill 9 (SB 9), [1] titled the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, is a 2021 California state law which creates a legal process by which owners of certain single-family homes in single-family zoned areas may build or split homes on their property, and prohibits all cities and counties from directly interfering with those who wish to build such ...
The bill would have affected roughly 50 percent of single-family homes in Los Angeles and 96 percent of land in San Francisco. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] A similar bill, Senate Bill 828, was introduced by Wiener to amend market-rate housing requirements for local governments and avoided much of the controversy that affected SB 827. [ 17 ]
The Norcross Remodel project is a single-family home remodel located in Dallas, Texas. It earned an NGBS certification at the Bronze level. According to the owners, as their family grew, they needed more space. Ferrier Builders completed the addition onto their existing home, with sustainable and high-performance features, including:
CEQA (signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970) remains an enormous hindrance to building anything in California, as it allows any "stakeholder" to file a lawsuit challenging the project. It requires ...
Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, plunged 6.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 970,000 units last month, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said.