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Most of California is House Poor
Sacramento County may seem to have cheaper housing, but an early state Department of Housing and Community Development report shows that it’s just as burdensome as the rest of California.
Can Curbing Gentrification Help Stop Climate Change?
CHPC’s Dan Rinzler provides data and context to support the idea that building affordable homes near transit is an effective GhG reduction strategy…
Shelter from the Storm: Assessing the Economic Impacts of the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018
In collaboration with the California Housing Partnership, the research department of the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council (NCCRC), analyzed the economic impacts of Senator Jim Beall’s SB 3 statewide housing [...]
HCD Director says California will further fair housing despite Trump
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 has for half a century required the State of California and other federal grantees to affirmatively further fair housing by reducing [...]
California Leaders Seek to Increase State LIHTC
California lawmakers recently announced four bills aimed at addressing the state’s affordable housing crisis, including one that seeks to increase the state LIHTC program to $300 million per [...]
Proposed California law would end tax break for second homes
Matt Schwartz featured in Desert Sun article describing AB-71 (Chiu). The bill proposes the elimination of the state mortgage interest tax deduction for second homes.
CA Agency Recommends Low-Income Energy and Water Legislation and Task Force
On December 14, 2016, the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved the SB 350 Barriers Study mandated by Senate Bill 350 to address barriers for low-income households and disadvantaged [...]
GREEN and EEFA Develop 2017 Priorities for Energy Efficiency, Water, Renewable Energy
Sixty leaders from housing, energy, environmental, and workforce development organizations gathered in Los Angeles and San Francisco this month to help the California Housing Partnership’s Green Rental home [...]
Making California Housing Affordable Again
How can California increase the number of homes that people can afford? By giving more money to cities that build sufficient affordable housing …
California Regulators Dedicate $80 Million to Empower Affordable Housing Owners to Play a Key Role in Meeting the State’s Energy Efficiency Goals
On November 10, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a decision that dedicates $80 million to empower government and non-profit owners of rent-restricted affordable housing to participate [...]
Self-Help Enterprises Responds to Drought in San Joaquin Valley
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 second article in a GREEN [...]
San Francisco Begins Second Phase of RAD Public Housing Initiative
Friday, October 14, 2016 marked a major milestone in San Francisco’s ambitious plan to revitalize its public housing properties through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s [...]
Eden Housing “Water Warriors” Cut Water Use by 20 Percent
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 first article in a [...]
Location Matters: Affordable Housing and VMT Reduction in San Diego County
Conducted by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and co-authored by the California Housing Partnership Corporation, the report prepared for the San Diego Housing Federation (SDHF) is based [...]
Cap-and-Trade Dollars at Work
FIRST AFFORDABLE HOUSING & SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FUNDED DEVELOPMENT IN SILICON VALLEY BREAKS GROUND The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara (HACSC) this week celebrated the groundbreaking [...]
CHPC Comments: Small Area Fair Market Rents
CHPC weighs in on HUD’s new methods of determining fair market rents for voucher holders, noting the unique challenges of California’s housing markets and providing recommendations to make the [...]
San Diego rent increases fastest at the bottom
A new study shows that median rents at the bottom rung of the San Diego County apartment market rose 16% higher than the market as a whole.
$1 Billion Plan to Provide Integrated Solar Energy to Low-Income Renters is First in Nation
San Francisco, CA ‒ On August 3rd, California’s leading low-income, environmental, and affordable housing groups submitted a proposed plan to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to spend up to [...]
$1 Billion Plan to Provide Integrated Solar Energy to Low-Income Renters is First in Nation
San Francisco, CA ‒ On August 3rd, California’s leading low-income
Nonprofit Solar Stakeholders Coalition AB 693 Implementation Proposal
The Nonprofit Solar Stakeholders Coalition submitted a joint proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission for implementing last year’s Assembly Bill 693, which authorized the use of utility Cap-and-Trade [...]
California Supports Solar Roofs for Multifamily Affordable Housing
lean Energy Finance Forum highlights the May report on solar storage released by Clean Energy Group and CHPC.
L.A. has 46,874 people who are homeless. If we’re not smart, we’ll have 250,000 more
“If every seat in the Rose Bowl, Coliseum, Dodger Stadium and Staples Center were an apartment, that would be only half the housing we need…”
How to fix the housing crisis: Embrace high-density development or face rising prices and rent, experts say
Each year, Southern California adds the equivalent of a new Pasadena, a new Fullerton, or a new city of Orange to its population…
Certificated State Tax Credit Bill Will Increase Equity Pricing
On June 27th, 2016, Governor Brown signed into law important changes to the State Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program that will substantially increase equity pricing for [...]
