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Governor Newsom pledges extra $200 million for homeless housing - Bullet The Mercury News – October 26 - Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $200 million boost to his Project Homekey homeless housing fund in San Jose last Friday — a major cash infusion that will back several Bay Area projects......By: Allen Matkins

Funding the next generation of efficient, electric, grid-interactive communities - Bullet Greentech Media – October 19 - U.S. homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy and three-fourths of all electricity, accounting for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs......By: Allen Matkins

New law aims to increase individual home ownership in California - Bullet SFGate – September 29 - A bill prompted by the Moms 4 Housing occupation of a vacant West Oakland home late last year and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom this Monday aims to increase homeownership in the state. Senate Bill 1079, introduced by state Senate Majority Whip Nancy Skinner, requires foreclosed homes to be sold individually at auction rather than bundled and sold to a single buyer......By: Allen Matkins

2020 is a tipping point for construction tech - Bisnow – August 28 - Not so long ago, construction was one of the least digitized industries in the U.S. But with increasing material costs, rising wages, and a labor shortage – all on top of the pandemic – construction firms are increasingly adopting technology at a breakneck pace......By: Allen Matkins

Bid to allow duplexes on most California lots fails after Assembly approval comes too late...California lawmakers nearly sent a bill to Governor Gavin Newsom that would have essentially ended single-family zoning across much of a state mired in a housing crisis. Then they ran out of time. In a legislative season compressed by the coronavirus outbreak, the California Assembly approved...By: Allen Matkins

California Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez recently amended AB 3075 to impose successor liability for unpaid wages.  The bill would, among other things, add a new Section 200.3 to the California Labor Code......By: Allen Matkins

You can read Delaware's General Corporation Law front to back and back to front and still know very little about Delaware corporate law.  The reason is that most of the important rules are not found in statutes but in a myriad of court decisions.  The process does not end, but begins, when a court announces a new rule.  Once announced, the rule is parsed and elaborated in subsequent decisions.  This is particularly true in the case of judicial review of board decisions involving mergers and...By...

San Diego County Board of Supervisors declines to appeal ruling on climate plan - Patch – July 9 - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has decided against appealing a court ruling that found the county’s Climate Action Plan to be insufficient, it was announced last Wednesday......By: Allen Matkins

EPA limits states’ power to review projects that affect water quality - Bullet Courthouse News Service – July 13 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday issued a new 401 Certification Rule under the Clean Water Act (CWA), aggressively curtailing the role states and tribal governments have played for 50 years in deciding whether projects that can harm water quality should receive federal permits......By: Allen Matkins

A challenge to the interpretation of a project condition of approval may be filed more than 90 days following the project approval - Bullet Allen Matkins – June 30 - On June 25, 2020, the Fifth Appellate District decided Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, holding that an applicant's challenge to a local agency's interpretation of a project condition of approval was not barred by the Subdivision Map Act's statute of limitations because it was not a challenge to the validity of a condition of...