• Home
  • Visit cvar.net
  • CVAR Calendar
  • Member Benefits
  • Affiliates & Appraisers
  • Contact
  • About

cvar connect

connecting you to what matters

  • CVAR.Live Videos
  • CVAR News
  • Market At A Glance
  • Industry News
  • Pro Tips
  • Government Affairs
  • Event Calendar
  • Home

Sorry Dorothy, There’s No Place for Home

January 25, 2021

More Southern California cities than ever before are fighting to have their allocations of new homes rolled back. No one denies the region needs more homes in general, and there’s been a specific push to get housing for low-income families built across the region. But some city leaders say the 1.34 million new units assigned […]

Filed Under: California News, CVAR Connect, Government Affairs, Industry News Tagged With: builder, Construction, Housing, New construction, NIMBY, San Bernardino Sun

Is Zoning Key to CA Housing?

October 19, 2020

As housing shortages deepen across the country, single-family zoning is increasingly becoming a prime target of lawmakers who seek to remake neighborhoods by adding density. Over recent years, some local and state governments—such as Minneapolis and the state of Oregon—have essentially eliminated single-family zoning to make way for more types of housing in response to […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Government Affairs, Industry News Tagged With: NIMBY, REALTOR®Mag, Sen. Scott Wiener, single-family residence, sprawl, Urban Land Institute, zoning

Politics Getting in the Way of Housing Legislation

July 8, 2019

In the first half of 2019, members of the California Legislature introduced roughly 200 bills that addressed the state’s worsening housing crisis. By the end of May, most of them had been nixed by the Byzantine nature of California politics. So why can’t California pass real housing reform? Among members of the Bay Area caucus, […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, Industry News Tagged With: Assembly, Curbed, David Chiu, Gov. Newsom, Housing, NIMBY, Politics, Sen. Wiener, Senate, YIMBY

Developers Eye Failing Golf Courses

June 18, 2018

As we reported in last week’s CVAR At A Glance, golf courses are no longer a leading amenity for older homeowners, who are more interested in dog parks and gardens. And Millennials don’t appear interested in an expensive sport that offers few health benefits.  As golf courses and clubs begin shutting down, hundreds of thousands of acres […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, Industry News, National News Tagged With: CityLab, courses close, golf, golf courses, housing development, new housing, NIMBY

Subscribe to CVAR Connect

Loading

Recent Posts

March 1 CVAR Connect

Client Tip: Listing Details Can Lead to Quicker Sale

Why Women Don’t Self-Promote at Work as Often as Men

Copyright © 2021 · Citrus Valley Association of REALTORS® · Log in