The Housing Authority of the County of Tulare (HACT) has developed a promising model for enabling owners of low-income affordable rental housing to finance the cost of installing solar [...]

Santa Clara County voters will decide the fate of a $950 million affordable housing bond this November… 

On any given night, 1 in 200 San Franciscans sleep on the street. Among the nation's large urban areas, the city has the highest per capita rate of unsheltered homeless people—people who live outside, in cars, or in abandoned buildings, as opposed to in shelters or transitional housing.

The home is sacred — a practical and spiritual shelter that sustains life. Yet, every year more than 3 million Americans, many of them children… 

The California Department of Finance (DOF) generally focuses only on the cost to the state of proposed new investments. Just last week they insisted that a common sense proposal by [...]

In collaboration with the California Housing Partnership, the research department of the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council (NCCRC) analyzed the economic impacts of the Affordable Housing Bond Act of [...]

Last week, Collin Tateishi joined the California Housing Partnership as a Sustainable Housing Policy Analyst. In this new role, Collin manages CHPC’s efforts to increase access to water [...]

CHPC’s Matt Schwartz weighs in on Governor Brown’s plan to tie funding for affordable homes to a streamlined approval process for developers. 

As tens of thousands of lower-income Californian renters have been displaced from California’s growing job centers over the past five years, a debate has been raging about whether [...]

This economic analysis indicates that pairing solar PV with battery storage systems can deliver significant electricity bill savings for California affordable housing residents and property owners. Battery storage [...]

Higher rents and cuts in affordable housing funding are exacerbating the housing crisis.

A new study released today finds that Sacramento County workers need to earn more than twice today’s minimum wage of $10 in order to afford to rent an [...]

May 12, 2016 | Today the California Housing Partnership released reports analyzing housing needs in nine California counties (Alameda, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Ventura County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]

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 [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are disproportionately burdening low-income families in San Joaquin County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take immediate [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in San Diego County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Orange County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are contributing to rising poverty rates in Los Angeles County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take [...]

This report shows how high housing costs are disproportionately burdening low-income families in Fresno County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take immediate action.

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.

This report shows how high housing costs are disproportionately burdening low-income families in Sacramento County. The report offers a roadmap for California’s legislators and local leaders to take immediate [...]

The California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC) is excited to announce that we have hired Stacey Murphy as our new Research Director to join Policy Analyst Danielle Mazzella in expanding [...]

California State Housing Needs Report 2016: Too many California families are falling into poverty because of high housing costs. The California Housing Partnership calls on state leaders to take direct, immediate [...]