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Sacramento County Housing Need 2017
This report demonstrates the shortfall of affordable homes in Sacramento County and the severe impact on low-income renters. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders [...]
Fresno County Housing Need 2017
This report demonstrates the shortfall of affordable homes in Fresno County and the severe impact on low-income renters. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local [...]
Executive Summary: Los Angeles County Annual Affordable Housing Outcomes Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report is designed to help guide LA County’s allocation of resources across both new and previously existing affordable housing programs.
Los Angeles County Annual Affordable Housing Outcomes Report 2017
This report is designed to help guide LA County’s allocation of resources across both new and previously existing affordable housing programs.
Data Points to Enlarging Housing Gap: Housing Needs Assessment highlights San Mateo County Affordability Deficit
Housing advocates are pointing to newly released data about the growing gap of affordable options in San Mateo County as evidence that both state and local officials must [...]
Take action for affordable housing in the Bay Area
CHPC’s Matt Schwartz and NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman offer solutions to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis.
Affordable housing drying up across Bay Area, report finds
Skyrocketing rents, shrinking incomes and severe cuts in state- and federal-government support for affordable housing have made it far harder for lower-income Bay Area residents to find a [...]
San Mateo County Housing Need 2017
This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in San Mateo County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]
Contra Costa County Housing Need 2017
This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Contra Costa County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]
Sonoma County Housing Need 2017
This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Sonoma County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take immediate [...]
Alameda County Housing Need 2017
This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Alameda County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take immediate action.
Fact Sheet: AB 1521 | Preserving California’s Existing Stock of Affordable Rental Homes
Fact Sheet on AB 1521, which strengthens the state’s existing Affordable Housing Preservation Law by requiring that rental housing with expiring federal and/or state subsidies and/or affordability protections [...]
LA County at risk of losing 14,000 affordable rentals
Los Angeles County officials are trying to stem the potential loss of some 14,000 affordable rentals over the next five years.
Efficiency Opportunities in Common Area Laundry Facilities – a discussion with Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future
CHPC’s water affordability initiative works to increase access to water conservation resources for the nonprofit multifamily affordable rental housing sector in California. Below is the fourth article in [...]
Responding to Trump’s 2018 Budget: a California Perspective
Late last week, the White House released President Trump’s so-called “Skinny Budget” for 2018, which proposes cuts of $54 billion to domestic programs including more than $6.2 billion [...]
Amid affordable housing crisis, number of units falls
Even as officials say affordable housing is a top priority, San Diego County shed more subsidized rental housing over the past two decades than all but two other [...]
Financing Energy Savings Through On-Bill Repayment
In 2016, the California Housing Partnership partnered with Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future and Community Corp of Santa Monica to test On-Bill Repayment (OBR) financing for energy [...]
2017 Preservation Report | Statewide At-Risk Assessment
CHPC’s annual statewide risk assessment shows 31,988 affordable homes are at risk of conversion to market rate within the next five years.
HUD Rental Assistance Opt Outs and Terminations 1995 – 2016
This resource details the affordable properties and units in California that have been lost due to owners’ decisions to not renew an expiring HUD rental assistance contract (Section [...]
Affordable Homes At-Risk by County
This resource outlines the properties and units at risk of conversion to market rate housing by county as of March 2017. The California Housing Partnership determines the level [...]
Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power Pursues “Customer First” Agenda: An interview with Commissioner William Funderburk
CHPC’s water affordability initiative works to increase access to water conservation resources for the nonprofit multifamily affordable rental housing sector in California. Below is the third article in a GREEN [...]
Developers of affordable housing in California are on pins and needles over Trump’s tax plan
President Trump’s election has thrown a wrench into low-income housing development across the country, especially in California.
Newsletter: New Study Finds Los Angeles County Needs 551,807 Affordable Homes
February 24, 2017 newsletter announcing the initial results of CHPC’s Affordable Housing Outcomes Report for the County of Los Angeles.
Your (Interim) Guide to Getting Whole Building Energy Data
Consistent access to energy usage data is a transformative tool for reducing energy consumption at multifamily properties. Data enables building owners to target the most cost efficient energy [...]

