From Wall Street to Belmont Avenue, corporate landlords could be in the Fresno City Council’s crosshairs
From Trump to Newsom, there’s a new bipartisan culprit for escalating housing prices: corporate landlords. And last month, the Fresno City Council entered the chat, led by Councilmember Annalisa Perea. Her proposal – unanimously approved by the council – asks the city attorney’s office to study recent trends around corporate landlords, from rent to ownership…
Clovis Planning Commission clears way for mandatory affordable housing in new developments
The Clovis Planning Commission unanimously approved a new policy that aims to help the city build more affordable housing by leaning on developers of market-rate housing to include it in their developments. Among the biggest commitments that the new Mixed Income Zoning Ordinance asks of Clovis developers will be in making at least 5%of new…
‘This is dirty.’ Fresno City Council erupts over corruption allegations and legal threat
Fresno city councilmembers threw accusations of backdoor dealing and inappropriate decorum at one another Thursday in a case of mudslinging that also resurrected an old debate around a controversial city rezoning plan. Thursday’s testy council argument erupted during a hearing to adopt the Central Southeast Area Specific Plan. Specific plans are roadmap documents that City…
It’s been 16 months since Fresno outlawed camping to encourage drug treatment. It’s not going great
Responding to overwhelming criticism in the fall of 2024 that their new anti-encampment law would criminalize the homeless, Fresno leaders called a news conference to introduce a “creative solution” that they said would create a streamlined system to prevent the criminalization of the local homeless population. They called it the “Treatment First Program.” City leaders…
Is Fresno County’s new law targeting sex offender housing unconstitutional?
Three registered Fresno sex offenders are suing the county government over a new law prohibiting more than half a dozen registrants from living together in a single-family home. The lawsuit brought by the Sacramento-based advocacy group the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, Inc. on behalf of the three anonymously named plaintiffs was filed Jan.…
Why the Fresno mayor says this LA investor will revolutionize the local housing market
The City of Fresno took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday for a new affordable housing community full of three-bedroom rental homes, while also rolling out the red carpet for a new developer in the region. The Blythe Village is made up of 67 three-bedroom, two-bathroom modular homes located in west Fresno on 3572…
City Council closes spending ‘loophole’ exposed by Fresnoland, but there’s still more work to do
The Fresno City Council unanimously approved a proposal from Councilmember Miguel Arias reforming the city’s public transparency on contracts, and also closing what he had referred to as a “loophole” in the city’s contracting laws. After heated debate on the dais Thursday, Arias amended his item to require the Fresno City Clerk’s Office — instead…
Fresno County prepares to count its unhoused residents
The Fresno-Madera region launches its Point In Time Count on Tuesday night — a routine federally required process that sees the country take stock of its local homeless population on a given night in January. Tuesday night’s count will be the first managed by Fresno’s County Administrative Office. It will also be the first to…
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