{"id":240705,"date":"2026-03-28T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240705\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:14:46","slug":"ca-issues-final-warning-to-cal-city-and-ridgecrest-for-ignoring-housing-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240705\/","title":{"rendered":"CA issues final warning to Cal City and Ridgecrest for ignoring housing laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERN COUNTY CALIF. (KERO) \u2014 California is cracking down on 15 cities, including California City and Ridgecrest, for ignoring state housing laws.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a final warning to the communities on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>State law requires local governments to plan for housing at all income levels. The state says these 15 jurisdictions are more than two years behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The cities now have 30 days to respond to the violation notices. The state could sue them if they fail to comply.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERN COUNTY CALIF. (KERO) \u2014 California is cracking down on 15 cities, including California City and Ridgecrest, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104902,151,153,152,5793,27986,108245,8,457,162,38528,108246],"class_list":{"0":"post-240705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-affordable-housing-california","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-california-city","13":"tag-california-housing-crisis","14":"tag-california-housing-laws","15":"tag-california-news","16":"tag-gavin-newsom","17":"tag-kern-county-news","18":"tag-ridgecrest","19":"tag-state-housing-mandate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}