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Why LA County could lose $3 billion worth of affordable housing
L.A. County is at risk of losing roughly $3 billion worth of affordable housing in the next five years, according to a draft report presented to county officials [...]
Preserving old, low-rent apartments could play key role in solving San Diego’s housing crisis
A new battleground is emerging in San Diego’s housing crisis: the need to preserve thousands of older apartments with subsidized rent restrictions that will expire in the next [...]
Boost to affordable housing is part of new $1.3-trillion federal budget
In passing a $1.3-trillion spending package, Congress didn’t just avert a government shutdown. It also provided a boost to affordable housing developers who say their projects have been [...]
Spending Bill Increases LIHTC and Affordable Housing Funding for FY2018
Dear Colleagues: Below are my highlights from the FY 2018 federal spending bill that was finalized yesterday by Congressional leaders. I am pleased to report that thanks [...]
Why Congress Must Act NOW to Restore the Value of the Housing Credit
The U.S. House of Representatives is negotiating final changes to the March 23rd 2018-19 spending bill as I write, meaning that the last chance to affect the contents [...]
Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding
On 1st Street in Santa Ana — not far from where authorities recently cleared a tent encampment along the Santa Ana River near Angel Stadium — developer Caleb [...]
Editorial: One reason you can’t afford California housing? State subsidies.
California’s homeownership rates are the lowest they’ve been since the 1940s, but that’s not stopping homeowners from getting enormous subsidies from the state.
California homeowners receive $6 billion a year in subsidies — 15 times more than renters, report finds
Homeowners in California received nearly $6 billion in state tax subsidies last year, according to a new report that also revealed a wide gap between state support for homeowners [...]
2018 Statewide Housing Need Report
CHPC’s statewide 2018 California Affordable Housing Needs Report takes a look at the correlation between California’s disinvestment in affordable homes and the rise of homelessness statewide. It also [...]
LA County looks to build up housing stock
L.A. County officials, looking to address massive housing affordability challenges, are looking to expand the ways they encourage construction of low-income housing.
Sacramento’s housing crisis won’t be solved without rent control
In the Jan. 31 editorial “Unsure About Rent Control? Here’s Another Way to Protect California Tenants,” the columnist Erika Smith presented repetitive myths about the key role rent control [...]
Walls and Bridges, Part 2: How Our Past Choices and Current Biases Continue to Shape Our World
The California Housing Partnership Corporation, in its March 2018 report, California’s Housing Emergency, found that the State of California’s expenditures per household are “highly inequitable” between homeowners and renters.
How New Tax Law Impacts Low-Income Housing
Commentary by Sue Reynolds and Matt Schwartz on how the Republican tax plan hurts the San Diego housing market and devalues the LIHTC.
Los Angeles blames wildfires on homeless, but evicting them won’t solve the real problems: Climate change and urban sprawl
IN THE EARLY-MORNING hours of December 6, a wildfire began spreading through the hills surrounding Bel Air, California, eventually blazing through the Santa Monica Mountains along the side of [...]
State says LA isn’t building enough housing—along with 525 other California cities
The vast majority of urban areas in the California—including Los Angeles—are failing to approve enough housing, a report released this week by the state Department of Housing and Community Development [...]
Housing shortage: New report shows how California cities and counties stack up
Nearly all the cities and counties in California — 97.6 percent — are failing to approve the housing needed to keep pace with population growth and will be subject to a [...]
Last year was a big year for housing in California. Lawmakers aren’t done yet.
California lawmakers are preparing new housing legislation this week, just months after Democrats in both houses pushed through the biggest legislative package on housing in decades.
California will soon see impact of GOP tax plan with loss of affordable housing
The new Republican tax overhaul will likely chop plans for thousands of new affordable homes in California and further squeeze low-income renters, but experts say the impact could have [...]
Affordable housing in California takes hit under GOP tax plan
The new Republican tax overhaul will likely chop plans for thousands of new affordable homes in California and further squeeze low-income renters, but experts say the impact could have [...]
Elderly low-income and homeless project in Grantville: Housing crisis for Grandma and Grandpa looms large
Housing the homeless is a sticky wicket in San Diego. It’s even more daunting when those homeless are senior citizens with health issues.
The Tax Credit Turns 30
This anniversary report takes a look back at the first 30 years of operation of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program to find out what happened to the earliest [...]
Solar energy savings coming to affordable housing residents
Low-income renters will get a break in their electricity bills—and a foot in the door to California’s clean energy economy—thanks to the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) [...]
Last Chance to Save Affordable Housing Bonds and Tax Credits
Now that the U.S. Senate has approved its own tax reform bill replete with hastily scribbled hand-written notes, which you can read here, Congress has entered the final [...]
How the Senate tax plan affects San Diego housing
The Senate passed a sweeping tax bill Saturday morning that has housing advocates, real estate agents and industry groups worried.
