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Easing L.A.’s housing crunch
Los Angeles is stuck in a housing crisis with little hope for an easy escape. The standard definition of “affordable” is …
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Stanislaus Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn nearly twice the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Stanislaus County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Santa Clara County Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn nearly five times the local minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Santa Clara County. Inflation-adjusted median [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More San Diego County Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn more than three times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in San Diego County. Inflation-adjusted median rents [...]
Shortfall of Affordable Homes Increases Burden on Low-Income Families in San Bernardino County
The state created the California Housing Partnership 25 years ago as a private nonprofit organization with a public mission: to monitor, protect, and augment the supply of homes [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Riverside County Families into Poverty
A renter household needs to earn 2.5 times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Riverside County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in Riverside County [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Los Angeles County Families into Poverty
Key Findings A renter household needs to earn 4 times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Los Angeles County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in Los [...]
Shortfall of Affordable Homes Increases Burden on Low-Income Families in Kern County
Key Findings A renter household needs to earn more than the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Kern County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in [...]
Midyear 2015 O.C. housing report: $11 billion in sales, priciest condo, smallest house, most lavish digs, hidden costs
More than six months past New Year’s Eve, the champagne corks are still popping. …
The Numbers Crunch: Life, liberty and the pursuit of some decent housing
If any doubt remained, a new study shows that the lack of affordable housing is a full-blown crisis, particularly for the poorest among us. …
California’s cap-and-trade program funds affordable housing
The state’s cap-and-trade program this year will provide $122 million in funding for affordable housing, including more than 800 new units in …
Santa Clara County housing agency to tie more Sect. 8 vouchers to affordable units
As Silicon Valley’s lack of affordable housing has escalated from bad to full-blown crisis over the last few years, people at the bottom …
Affordable homes mean jobs for the Kern County economy
Despite upbeat news of an economy on an upswing, thousands of families in Kern County and other parts of the Valley remain stuck …
Moving too often can be bad for your health
It is well known that substandard housing conditions and homelessness lead to bad health. …
Preserving a Historic Hotel with Innovative Financing and the Partial Transfer of a Section 8 Contract
In February 2015, Christian Church Homes (CCH) celebrated the grand re-opening of the Lorenz Senior Apartments in Redding, California after a major rehabilitation. A historic hotel that had been converted [...]
California’s cap-and-trade program is key to Gov. Jerry Brown’s agenda
For Gov. Jerry Brown, fighting climate change is more than a central tenet of his political agenda. It’s also a key source of funding. …
12 percent jump in homelessness in LA County
The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County jumped 12 percent in the past two years, to more than 44,000 …
Mutual Housing California Achieves Zero Net Energy in Woodland | GREEN Case Study
When Mutual Housing at Spring Lake opened its doors, the 62-unit apartment development became the first multifamily affordable rental development in the nation to receive the U.S. Department of [...]
Update on California’s Affordable Housing Crisis: The Critical Role of Housing Access and Affordability in Reducing Poverty
New analysis shows how the shortfall of affordable homes is exacerbating poverty throughout California.
Activists Shape Oakland Coliseum Area Plan
A large coalition of activist groups pushed successfully for affordable housing goals, local hiring, and environmental mitigations. …
California’s Housing Costs Endanger Growth, Analyst Says
California’s high housing costs threaten the state’s economy as workers increasingly struggle to afford a roof over their heads, …
Preservation of Affordable Homes Near Transit Toolkit
This toolkit outlines how community-based organizations and advocates for equitable transit-oriented development can work together with local jurisdictions to assess the risk of losing existing affordable homes both [...]
San Mateo County: Affordable housing crisis inspires talks about rent control
REDWOOD CITY — The affordable housing market has become so dire in San Mateo County that the Board of Supervisors is ready to …
L.A. High-Rise Boom Won’t Cure a Housing Crisis
Until the mid-2000s, the South Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles had exactly one high-rise tower: the looming, vaguely Stalinist Transamerica Building. …
