California Building Industry Association

WEBINAR // California’s New Housing Laws: What You Need To Know This year, the Legislature approved, and the Governor signed into law, a wide range of measures that will impact the building industry, including bills related to accelerating housing production, strengthening housing law enforcement, and building more Accessory Dwelling Units. ? Join us for this?free webinar led by CBIA’s team of legislative, regulatory, and legal experts, who will highlight key new laws going into effect in 2025 and how these new laws will affect your businesses and the building industry at large. Attend this informative presentation especially designed for?CBIA?and?PWB?members, but open to all. CBIA Presenters: Dan Dunmoyer,?President & CEO Nick Cammarota,?Senior VP & General Counsel Karim Drissi,?Senior VP of Legislative Affairs Chris Ochoa,?Senior Counsel for Codes, Regulatory & Government Affairs Date:?Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Time:?10 – 11:00am PDT Register here: https://lnkd.in/gMcceu5G

?? ?? Today in San Diego I joined a milestone in wildfire preparedness, celebrating the completion of the first home retrofitted as part of our home hardening financial assistance retrofit program. This effort is part of California’s larger effort of wildfire resiliency. The California Wildfire Mitigation Program (CWMP), a joint powers authority between the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), was established to lead a pilot initiative that funds home hardening retrofits and defensible space efforts that increase the survivability of communities during a wildfire. While this home was the first in San Diego, and the 12th statewide, the pilot program is actively working with 6 communities to harden upwards of 2,500 homes. Learn more about Home Hardening at www.ReadyForWildfire.org. Learn more about the Retrofit Financial Assistance: https://lnkd.in/gyFZWyte #CALFIRE #StateFireMarshal #WildfirePrepared #HomeHardening Lisa Lien-Mager Steven Hawks Caroline Thomas Jacobs Chris Ochoa J. Lopez Jordon Boyer John Morgan Staci Heaton Dennis O'Neil Dave Nissen Abby Browning Robert Troy Joe Tyler Anale Burlew Nick Schuler, CFO, PIO Christine McMorrow

Revitalizing underused retail spaces like empty shopping centers and parking lots could be key to help alleviate our housing crisis. By turning these sites into vibrant, mixed-use communities with housing, retail, and recreation, we can reduce development costs and make use of existing infrastructure. Cities like Brea, Santa Ana, and Laguna Hills are already leading the way.????? #OrangeCounty #HousingCrisis #InfillDevelopment #SmartGrowth | Adam Wood, Building Industry Association of Southern California via The Orange County Register https://lnkd.in/gznXGbjA

Calling all manufacturers and service providers: Membership in CBIA gives you unparalleled access to industry insights and building professionals! ? As a member of CBIA, you will stay on top of industry trends, gain vital insight into governmental advocacy, and make the connections you’ll need to stay competitive in today’s marketplace. ? Elevate your statewide presence by joining CBIA’s Partner Program which gives you direct access to our team of leading legislative and regulatory experts and eligibility to serve on committees. Help guide statewide policies and contribute to key discussions shaping the future of our industry. Learn more about CBIA Membership here and JOIN TODAY: https://lnkd.in/guxH3R9a #CBIA #CAhousing #housingindustry #CAbuilders #californiabuildingindustry #professionalmembership

We’re excited to welcome to our newest CBIA Partner Program Member: Frost Brown Todd ?? With more than 575 attorneys across the United States, Frost Brown Todd offers a deep, talented roster of legal professionals who advise and protect clients in business transactions and litigation in many industries, including: - Energy - Financial Services - Health Care - Manufacturing - Technology Frost Brown Todd’s national footprint consists of 17 offices spanning nine states, including California, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Recognized as preeminent in their practice areas, their attorneys collaborate across disciplines and geographic locations to provide unparalleled service to meet clients’ needs; deliver the insights and solutions available only from a diverse group of professionals; and support the communities in which they operate. Welcome aboard, Frost Brown Todd! #cbia #californiabuildingindustry #professionalmembership

Thank you to the great Kevin Ervin Kelley, AIA for sharing the stage both in June at the California Building Industry Association and last week on a follow up webinar sponsored by the CBIA. We have gone from an age rich in relationships and poor in knowledge to an age rich in knowledge and poor in relationships. It's amazing how much we both feel this social poverty all around us and work on ways to alleviate it. We come to this challenge from completely different backgrounds - I have mostly worked in #peacebuilding and you in #retail - and yet land together with similar worldviews. While I work on #neighborhoods, you work on physical locations. In both cases, we are trying to bolster social connectivity and emotional attachments to place. There is a lot to gain by learning from your ideas about bonfire moments and designing to promote prosocial outcomes. The more our places bring us together, the more we can address our social challenges. I highly recommend your book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together. It has ideas even for those far from retail. This was a great conversation, facilitated by Greg Fuson. One of my best because of the interaction and synthesis we created. I can share it with anyone who wants to delve deeper into these ideas. Please just message. #loneliness #inequality #Placemaking PlacemakingX Placemaking Education

Today the #California #Assembly Select Committee on #Permitting Reform held an Informational Hearing in Los Angeles. The focus of the hearing was on the permitting to facilitate #infill #housing and sustainable transportation. Ahead of the hearing we had the opportunity to do a boots on the ground tour, highlighting these types of investments. Great coordination with the Los Angeles County Business Federation - BizFed! I’m encouraged to see effort from the legislature to streamline housing. I hope that can be extended to all housing types, including single family #construction and greenfield development. Thank you to Select Committee Chair, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks for leading this dialogue! Mike Manville, the Department Chair on Housing, from the UCLA Luskin School was the MOST impressive speaker on the topic of housing #affordability. In his words: “We have a serious problem that has caused insufficient housing supply. The solution to that problem is to make it easier to build housing of all kinds. Any thing that gets layered on top of an effort to make it easier to build housing risks undermining our ability to get under the biggest root cause of the housing crisis.” This should not be a surprise to anybody. His comments are simple, truthful and academically researched. More footage to come on his opening remarks. #louderforthepeopleintheback

We’re excited to welcome our newest CBIA Partner Program Member: SolaTrim ?? Based in Loomis, California, SolaTrim’s mission for over a decade has been to protect the significant investment of rooftop solar systems everywhere with the best solution available. With unparalleled solar protection over the life of the system, the SolaTrim? Solar System Protection solution reduces servicing time for installers and damaging pest and weather risks for homeowners. SolaTrim’s all-climate protective barrier is uniquely designed for today’s rooftop solar systems — as strong as it is attractive. Both dependable and affordable, SolaTrim solar protection is easy to install and is designed to permanently protect from common types of pests and weather damage while improving a home’s curb appeal. Welcome aboard, SolaTrim!

Get ready—it’s almost time to move that bus! ?? After much planning and excitement, the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition reboot is coming to a TV near you. Tune in for the first episode on ABC, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Catch each new episode every Thursday, with next-day streaming on Hulu. #ThisisTMLiving

The Call for Proposals for PCBC 2025 is now open! Deadline: November 22, 2024 If you’re interested in sharing new ideas, trends, analysis and synthesis with the PCBC 2025 audience, we invite you to?submit your proposal(s) here: ?? https://lnkd.in/gfXnYuar