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Ben Christopher, CalMatters

Posted inReal Estate

So many reasons to stay put: What’s behind California’s frozen housing market?

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters July 29, 2025July 29, 2025

What happens when you take high interest rates, unpredictable tariffs, a shortage of homes, a 50-year-old property tax law and mix them together? A housing market stuck in molasses.

Posted inNews

Trump lawyers call his decision to send troops to LA ‘unreviewable’ by U.S. courts

by Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters and Ben Christopher, CalMatters June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
Posted inNews

Appeals court allows Trump to keep National Guard in Los Angeles temporarily

by Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters and Ben Christopher, CalMatters June 12, 2025June 13, 2025
Posted inPolitics

Unprecedented vote shows Dems fractured over housing policy

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters May 2, 2025May 2, 2025
Posted inDevelopment

Will this bill be the end of California’s housing vs environment wars?

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters March 31, 2025March 31, 2025
Posted inNews

Push to build more homes on California coast stifled after lawmakers derail housing bills

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters August 19, 2024August 19, 2024
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Californians will see lower electricity rates and a new fee that won’t vary with power use

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters May 10, 2024May 10, 2024
Posted inNews

California’s most controversial housing law could get a makeover

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters April 2, 2024
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Los Angeles’ one weird trick to build affordable housing at no public cost

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters February 10, 2024February 10, 2024
Posted inNews

State’s end-of-year affordable housing bonanza likely to leave dozens of near-ready projects ‘mothballed’

by Ben Christopher, CalMatters December 25, 2023

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