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Policy Brief: Assessing the Economic Benefits of SB 5
Assessing the Economic Impacts of the Local-State Sustainable Incentive Program (SB 5, Beall and McGuire)
Opportunity Zones: The Antidote to Los Angeles Housing Crisis
It’s no secret that there is an affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles, and it doesn’t appear to be getting any better. To help paint the picture, let’s explore a [...]
Once a sleepy giant, Los Angeles’ core awakens
LOS Angeles’ downtown was little more than a sleepy office district not too long ago, where tens of thousands of suburbanites would clear out by the end of [...]
California’s $100 Million 2019 Low Income Solar Program Near Roll Out
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with an expected launch of the Solar on Multifamily [...]
Can California homes and businesses quit natural gas? Some say yes
To meet its aggressive goals for fighting climate change, California wants to wean millions of homes and businesses in the state off natural gas.
The California Housing Partnership Celebrates 30 Years
30th Anniversary Celebration Created by the Legislature in 1988 as a private nonprofit organization with a public mission and board appointed by the Governor and Legislature without state [...]
Rising Bay Area rents hit communities of color hardest
Rising Bay Area rents have taken the heaviest toll on minority communities, displacing more low-income black, Latino and Asian residents than poor white residents, according to a new [...]
‘All hands on deck’: Can public-private solutions solve Calif. housing crisis?
In his inaugural address last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to create “a Marshall Plan” to alleviate the state’s housing shortage.
Housing meant for the Bay Area’s poorest residents is slowly vanishing
As Bay Area communities struggle to build enough housing for their poorest residents, one factor keeps threatening their progress: the affordable housing they already have is slowing disappearing.
California’s Affordable Rental Homes At-Risk of Conversion | 2019 Report
To inform affordable housing preservation efforts across California, the California Housing Partnership annually assesses the historical loss and conversion risk of federally- and state-subsidized affordable rental properties. This [...]
PolitiFact California: Gavin Newsom’s Housing Tax Credit Promise Is ‘In The Works’
On the campaign trail, Gavin Newsom promised a “Marshall Plan” to confront California’s affordable housing crisis. He said he’d help the state build its way out of the [...]
Editorial: As the Bay Area’s housing crisis continues, segregation grows
The Bay Area’s housing crisis isn’t just straining residents’ wallets. According to a new study from UC Berkeley and the California Housing Partnership, it’s resegregating cities, displacing minority communities and [...]
Bay Area housing prices push low-income minorities farther out, study finds
The rising cost of housing in the Bay Area has dramatically resegregated neighborhoods by race and pushed minority families to the outer edges of the region, a new [...]
Rising Housing Costs and Re-Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area
This report by the California Housing Partnership and the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley finds that rising housing prices in the Bay Area region were correlated with [...]
County Supplement: Rising Housing Costs and Re-Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area
This supplement contains county-level charts and tables that correspond with data in the regional report by the California Housing Partnership and the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley that documents rising [...]
State Treasurer in Fresno for Listening Tour on Housing
The Fresno Housing Authority hosted an Affordable Housing Listening Tour featuring California State Treasurer Fiona Ma at the Legacy Commons apartment complex in Fresno Friday.
Bay Area housing gets $500 million boost, with launch of region’s largest fund
Bay Area power brokers fired a major shot in the fight against the housing shortage Thursday, as tech leaders, elected officials and philanthropists came together to launch what is [...]
Virtual Net Energy Metering 101: GREEN Talk Shares Impacts and Challenges for Owners
Virtual Net Energy Metering (VNEM) has been a requirement for many California solar programs including the Low Income Weatherization Program (LIWP), Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing (MASH) and Solar [...]
2019 – A Happier New Year for Affordable Housing in California
As we head into the first full week of 2019, I wanted to share five reasons why I am feeling optimistic about the state of affordable housing in California: [...]
Opinion: Low-income renters who face evictions need pro-bono help from Valley’s lawyers
Last summer, a Fresno family repeatedly asked their landlord to repair a faulty electrical system in their home. The landlord ignored their pleas, the power went out and [...]
How Northern California’s destructive wildfires could exacerbate the state’s housing crisis
Northern California’s recent wildfires have burned homes at a greater pace than developers are building them, deepening a housing shortage that already has left millions struggling to find [...]
New AHSC Report Assesses Cap-and-Trade Housing Program Benefits
Today, the California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners published a report that uses newly available data to assess the climate and community benefits delivered by the Cap-and-Trade-funded Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program [...]
GREEN Updates: New Funding Opportunities and Policies
The California Housing Partnership continues to engage with public agencies and electric utilities to ensure that multifamily affordable housing properties have the necessary resources to meet ongoing energy, [...]
UC Berkeley Housing Report Shows A Re-Segregation Of The Bay Area
Soaring Bay Area housing costs have led to a wave of racial and income segregation, according to a new report from the University of California at Berkeley.
