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Bill Seeks to Ease California’s Affordibility Housing Crisis
Most Californians can’t afford their rent. The state’s affordability crisis has worsened since the recession, as soaring home prices and rents outpace job and income growth. Meanwhile, government [...]
Financing Energy Efficiency Retrofits of Multifamily Buildings
Apartment buildings are home to more than 17 million households nationwide, yet they remain a significant and mostly untapped opportunity for energy efficiency gains. Energy efficiency upgrades in [...]
Shortage of Low-Income Housing Pushes Tenants into Dangerous Situations
Dozens of people shared only three showers in the building that Patricia McDowell called home for the last 2 1/2 years. Roaches skittered across the floor, she said, [...]
HUD Preservation Round Two: Ensuring the Long-term Financial, Physical, and Environmental Sustainability of a LIHPRA Property
Los Robles Apartments is a 76-unit, multifamily, affordable development located in the city of Vista in San Diego County. The property was built in 1974 using a (HUD) [...]
Housing Authority Looking into Dialing Back Cuts to Section 8
SAN JOSE — Sharon McKain learned in February that she had three months to move out. Her landlord was no longer renting to Section 8 voucher-holders because the [...]
Low-Income Californians Struggle to Find Affordable Housing
A new study from the California Housing Partnership Corp. attributes rising cost of rent and decreasing government aid for a lack of affordable housing available for California’s low-income [...]
New Study Details Depth of California’s Affordable Home Crisis
FEBRUARY 11, 2014 | SACRAMENTO, CA – Today the California Housing Partnership Corporation released a report that shows California’s private housing market is not providing an adequate number [...]
California’s Affordable Rental Housing Crisis
Renters across the nation, and in particular in California, are locked in a pernicious squeeze of rising rents and stagnant incomes that has diverted a growing share of [...]
Report: Rising Rents Hurting California’s Affordability
A combination of rising rents and falling government aid for affordable housing has dealt a blow to California’s lower-income residents, according to a new study. Nearly 1 million [...]
Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit in Fremont | Summary and Recommendations
This memo summarizes the policy, data, and spatial analysis that Reconnecting America (RA) and the California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC) completed for the City of Fremont with the [...]
Improving Lives Through the Preservation and Creation of Affordable Homes
The essence of our mission has not changed in the eleven years since I came to work at the California Housing Partnership: to assist nonprofit and government housing [...]
How California’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families in California
California is showing increasing economic and fiscal strength with economic growth among the top five states in the nation and a budget that is in the black for the [...]
Governor’s Budget Important First Step in Funding Sustainable Communities
Sacramento – Leaders of the Sustainable Communities for All Coalition offered praise for the Governor’s efforts to invest $850 million of cap-and-trade auction proceeds in a wide range [...]
Seniors Get Housing Relief Just in Time
JOSHUA TREE — Until Friday, Jim McCubbin didn’t know how he would fare living in the back of his pickup truck with a camper shell during the winter [...]
The Adviser: Helen Dunlap
Lighting a Spark Between Energy Advocates and Community Development
Is there a good reason for affordable housing practitioners to start paying attention to utility company-sponsored green retrofit programs? Ask an industry insider and they’ll likely tell you [...]
SAHA Creates a Model for Achieving Verified Energy Savings | Case Study
Berkeley-based nonprofit affordable housing owner Satellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA) is using sophisticated tools to track energy and water performance at Merritt Crossing Senior Apartments, leading to clearly [...]
Eden Housing Pioneers a New Model for Recapitalizing Aging HUD 202 Properties
In March 2013, after years of effort, Eden Housing closed the financing and began rehabilitating six properties originally built with Section 202 loans more than twenty years earlier. This case study highlights [...]
The Cambridge Apartments: Preserving Permanent Supportive Housing for the Long Term
On Thursday, July 18th, Community Housing Partnership (CHP), celebrated the grand reopening of the Cambridge Apartments with 60 efficiency units for formerly homeless adults in San Francisco’s Tenderloin [...]
Public Housing Transformation: Maple Park Apartments in Live Oak, CA
On May 29th, 2013, the Regional Housing Authority of Sutter and Nevada Counties (RHASNC) and its nonprofit development partner, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), as well as [...]
Why Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Should Fund Affordable Homes Near Transit | White Paper
Affordable TOD Has an Important Role in Reducing GHG Transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for 38% of California’s total. Because transportation needs are driven in large part [...]
Revitalizing the Evergreen Apartments
The City of Long Beach helps Abode Communities Preserve 81 Affordable Homes. US Bank became the LIHTC investor, while Union Bank was the bond purchaser and lender. Together, they extended affordability for an additional 40 years.
Building and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit
CHPC initiated this report in order to assess existing research on the role of preservation and development of affordable housing in transit--oriented corridors as a greenhouse gas (GHG) [...]
Poway Villas: A Winning Formula for Preservation
Poway Villas is a 60-apartment, 100% Section 8 community in the City of Poway, California. The 40-year-old property was preserved by San Diego-based Community Housing Works (CHW). Poway [...]
