Plan to build 580 housing units on site of former City Hall moves forward
The two residential towers would add much needed housing to the Downtown area, with each of the structures proposed to be about 115-feet tall.
Building boom: How full are Downtown Long Beach’s newest apartment buildings?
As for who’s renting these pricier Downtown apartments, trends have shown a rise in single, college-educated workers who live alone.
Residents of Belmont Shores Mobile Estates seeing rent hikes as high as 35%
The gated community has been undergoing a capital improvement program over the past few years which included improvements to water and sewer lines, street lights, storm drains, roadways and the electrical infrastructure of the community.
‘What are we going to do?’: Home ownership—in some cases housing—is a struggle in Long Beach
The Long Beach Media Collaborative—a partnership among the Press-Telegram, Long Beach Post, Long Beach Business Journal, and the Grunion Gazette—has undertaken a project to analyze how the city arrived at this moment, where housing is one of the defining problems of the era, and where it should go from here.
Coveting local control, City Council opposes state bill to boost housing density
Senate Bill 50 could strip local municipalities of some of its controls regarding land use as a means to boost construction of housing.
Long Beach renters win victory: Leaders agree to require assistance for some evictions, rent hikes
Housing advocates and property owners packed the council chambers Tuesday night as the controversial plan was scrutinized by the public, and the council, for nearly six hours.
City to consider tenant relocation assistance for displaced renters
Long Beach will consider an ordinance that would require owners of rental buildings with four or more units to pay relocation assistance to qualified displaced renters.
Old North Long Beach library may be turned into affordable housing—but first it will again house a winter shelter
The city this week bought its own property: a vacant building in North Long Beach that once served as a longtime neighborhood library, and last winter, housed the homeless as an emergency shelter.
These 10 data charts show how bad California’s housing and affordability crises are
Nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism venture CALmatters has examined decades of data to analyze how the State’s Capitol and local policies in combination with the market have created the housing and affordability crises California faces.