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CA Adopts Guidelines for Cap-and-Trade Affordable Housing Program
Yesterday the Strategic Growth Council adopted guidelines for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program and scheduled workshops for early February to …
LA residents need to make $33 an hour to afford the average apartment
You need to earn at least $33 an hour — $68,640 a year — to be able to afford the average apartment in Los Angeles County …
Housing shortage pushing home costs out of reach
Stiff competition for an insufficient supply of houses prevented Max and Taryn McCann from buying a home in downtown Fullerton last year. …
Renters, housing activists search for solutions to skyrocketing Sonoma County rents
“No rent for rats,” participants chanted at last month’s meeting of the North Bay Organizing Project. …
Half Of L.A. Adults Have Roommates To Save Rent
In Los Angeles it’s not out of the norm to hear someone complain about how they would rather live without a roommate if …
S.F. group cooks up affordable housing plan
Mayor Ed Lee‘s housing working group is close to a deal on several policy changes that backers hope will boost the number of …
Longtime tenants lose low-income rentals as housing deals end
Heather Higley’s face darkened with sadness as she moved out of her low-rent apartment in an upscale complex in Simi Valley on a recent Saturday. …
Exclusive: S.F. Mayor’s housing task force pushes new affordable housing policies
Mayor Ed Lee‘s housing working group is close to a deal on several policy changes that backers hope will boost the number of …
University Avenue Homes: A Critical Resource in Need of TLC
UA Homes is one of many aging SRO properties in California that provide an important affordable housing resource for low‐income people who would otherwise be homeless. However, at [...]
California Affordable Homes in Short Supply After Cuts
The 160 units at Santa Monica, California’s Belmar Apartments received 4,600 applications ahead of the project’s July opening…
A California Dream: Not Having to Settle for Just One Bedroom
This was the state that embodied the middle-class American dream: Move west, acquire a small slice of property, perhaps with a palm tree …
Can working-class families afford to live in San Mateo County?
SAN MATEO — Araselis Marte and her two daughters have lived in their small two-bedroom apartment on Grant Street for nine years. But now they face …
Surprise, surprise: SF falling far short on affordable housing for low-income residents
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has called for the creation or rehabbing of 30,000 housing units in the next six years …
New report highlights SF shortfall in below-market-rate housing
San Francisco may be a leader in California when it comes to building below-market-rate housing, but it is not measuring up …
Why homes even in the unfashionable parts of LA cost so much
JOSÉ MARROQUÍN lives with his mother, wife and four children in a tiny apartment in a rough part of town. It costs …
For low-income families, challenges keep growing
Orange County workers’ household incomes slipped over a dozen years, when adjusted for inflation, while rents shot up …
San Francisco has affordable housing shortfall of 40,000 units, report says
Amid rising rents and declines in funding, San Francisco has an affordable housing shortfall of more than 40,800 units …
Clean-energy investments good for business, consumers: Guest commentary
The transportation sector is responsible for the largest greenhouse gas emissions in our state, nearly 40 percent. But unlike other sectors …
Housing’s 30-Percent-of-Income Rule Is Nearly Useless
When you’re looking for a place to live, one number rules your world: You should spend no more than 30 percent of your income …
Garfield Park Village Pioneers SPRAC for Unassisted Section 202 Properties
Located in Santa Cruz, California, and owned and managed by Christian Church Homes (CCH), Garfield Park Village is an affordable senior apartment complex developed in 1964 with a [...]
The Squeeze on Renters Is Getting Worse
Summer’s traditionally when moving vans clog the streets as people try to get settled in new homes and apartments before the school year starts…
Is the Cost of Sacramento’s Downtown Makeover Too High?
Many U.S. cities have glaring economic divides that present geographically, but in Sacramento, this inequality is characterized by two downtowns. …
Affordable Housing Near Transit Will Help California Combat Climate Change
California will devote billions of dollars in new cap-and-trade revenue to fund projects intended to further curb climate impacts. …
Cap and Trade Revenue for Affordable Housing Under Discussion
