Eager to boost the supply of affordable housing, city officials in Long Beach devised a program that could help a limited number of homeowners build an extra unit on their land. But before they could ...

The Huntington Beach City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday to mount a legal challenge against the state over laws intended to boost housing. The Huntington Beach City Council will consider mounting a legal ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego is reversing course on years of lenient housing policy by capping how many backyard homes—known as accessory dwelling units, or ADUs—can be built on single-family lots. While the ...

Just as San Diego prepares to cap the number of backyard apartments that can be built on a property at seven, a developer is pursuing a project featuring 120 backyard apartments on two adjacent single ...

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Long Beach has launched its pilot program to help homeowners build accessory dwelling units – or ADUs – on their properties. The program, called the Backyard Builders Program, will provide Long Beach ...

Newport Beach’s general fund ended the last fiscal year in better shape than earlier estimates had predicted, largely due to consistently high property values generating a healthy stream of tax ...

Long Beach has officially launched pre-approved designs and construction plans for accessory dwelling units, the city announced this week — a move meant to streamline the ADU production process and ...