California continues to experience very high rates of population growth and further tightening of its housing markets. Even encompassing the recession of the early 1990s, California's population grew by an average approximating 450,000 people annually and is projected to gain around 600,000 annually over the next decade.

Housing production has not kept pace with the State's housing needs particularly in the coastal metropolitan areas and housing need has worsened, especially for renter households and low-income owner households throughout the State.

This new electronic bibliography compiles best practices and the most current research on green building and sustainability issues.

Despite frequent claims that new housing costs state and local governments more in services than it generates in tax revenue, a study released today concludes that housing does pay its own way – and then some.