Santa Ana officials explicitly banned short-term rentals like Airbnb becoming the latest city in Orange County to prohibit such rentals amid noise, parking and trash complaints.
Category: Housing & Homelessness
Orange County housing and homelessness, from what the state told each city to build to what it has actually permitted. Rent increases, evictions, affordable projects, shelters, anti-camping enforcement and the federal court orders shaping all of it.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
How Are Orange County’s Cities Doing At Building Affordable Housing?
Self-released scorecards from cities highlighted which ones moved forward with thousands of new housing units and which ones failed to build anything.
Posted inAnaheim
Will Anaheim Require Developers to Build Affordable Homes?
A few officials in Anaheim are pushing back again against the idea of implementing an ordinance to require developers to build affordable homes in their projects.
Posted inHuntington Beach
Huntington Beach Barred From Approving Any New Housing Developments
A San Diego Superior Court judge temporarily halted Surf City’s ability to approve new housing sites that don’t meet state density requirements.
Posted inOutdoors
Irvine To Convert Shuttered Asphalt Plant Into Nature Preserve, Housing
The city’s plan to sell land to a developer will help pay for a proposed nature preserve and for the city’s shutdown of the All American Asphalt plant.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Third Orange County City Leaves CA League of Cities Over Prop 1
The City of Orange became OC’s third city to leave the state’s largest municipal advocacy organization over its support for a statewide measure officials fear could worsen the drug treatment home situation in neighborhoods.
Posted inFeatured Stories
Southern California Hotel Workers Get Raise After Months of Striking
After months of rolling strikes, unionized workers have ratified contracts at 34 hotels across Southern California that will bump up their hourly income.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
CA State Bill Looks to Give Cities Regulation Over Sober Living Homes
It comes as cities throughout Orange County and California struggle with regulating sober living and other group homes that are a nuisance to neighborhoods – something local officials fear Prop 1 could worsen.
Posted inTop Stories
Another Orange County City Bails on CA League of Cities Over Prop 1
Following in Newport Beach’s footsteps, Huntington Beach City Council members said the municipal lobbying group’s support for prop 1 – which could expand controversial group homes – was the breaking point.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Laguna Beach Joins Other OC Cities in Strengthening Eviction Protections
If a landlord evicts a tenant to make renovations, the landlord will also be required to file the documents to the city under a new local ordinance aimed at curbing dubious evictions.
