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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 [...]

    May 10, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    May 10, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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.

    May 9, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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. 

    May 9, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    May 8, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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. 

    May 6, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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 [...]

    May 5, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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 [...]

    May 4, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    May 4, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    May 4, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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.

    May 4, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    April 26, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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.

    April 19, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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 [...]

    March 21, 2017Archive, Policy
  • 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 [...]

    March 18, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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 [...]

    March 16, 2017Archive, Case Study, Resources
  • 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 [...]

    March 7, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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.

    February 26, 2017Archive, Media
  • 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. 

    February 24, 2017Archive, Resources
  • 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 [...]