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  • Project Home: Advocates Seek 10-Year Policy Plan To Address California Housing Crisis

    SACRAMENTO (KPIX 5) – More than 100 housing bills have been introduced so far in the California legislature this year, an about face from 2020 where housing took [...]

    February 26, 2021Media
  • Where are Affordable Homes Most At Risk in California?

    California has already lost 18,043 subsidized affordable rental homes and today, another 6,785 subsidized affordable rental homes are at risk of market rate conversion as soon as next year. These homes house thousands of low-income [...]

    February 25, 2021Media, Research
  • California needs a 10-year roadmap to housing affordability and to end homelessness

    Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his budget plan, which included big investments in affordable housing and homelessness. As leaders in California’s affordable housing movement, we appreciate that [...]

    February 17, 2021Media
  • California needs a 10-year roadmap to housing affordability and to end homelessness

    Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his budget plan, which included big investments in affordable housing and homelessness.  …On Jan. 26, Housing California and the California Housing Partnership [...]

    February 12, 2021Media
  • Finding Affordable Financing

    Consider the Rubik’s Cube challenge of assembling money to pay for an affordable housing project. …It’s not just Sacramento, of course. In San Joaquin County, rents have grown [...]

    January 28, 2021Media
  • State Policy Priorities for 2021: Announcing California’s Roadmap HOME

    The California Housing Partnership is proud to announce the release of the 2021 policy priorities from the Roadmap HOME — the first long-term, comprehensive, and evidence-based framework of [...]

    January 26, 2021CHP News, Media
  • Housing organizations release ambitious plan to build 1.2 million new affordable homes and end homelessness

    (Audio) California Report: A group of housing organizations is releasing an ambitious plan today to build 1.2 million new affordable homes and end homelessness in California.

    January 26, 2021Media
  • California’s affordable housing leaders offer sneak preview of forthcoming Roadmap HOME 2030

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | January 26, 2021 Contact: Adam Bink, Spitfire // Christina Gotuaco, California Housing Partnership California’s affordable housing leaders offer sneak preview of forthcoming Roadmap HOME 2030 [...]

    January 26, 2021Events, Media
  • Tech, developer foundations to California: Go big on housing

    After years of legislative defeats of bold housing reform, affordable housing advocates have formed a nascent coalition including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, other major nonprofits and lawmakers to [...]

    January 26, 2021Media
  • Biden’s plans may offer hope to L.A.’s homeless population — if Congress goes along

    After watching a homeless man beat up his girlfriend, Claudia Parola had had it. She was fed up with the drugs being dealt outside the studio where she does [...]

    January 24, 2021Media
  • San Francisco’s Housing Crisis is Deepening, Despite Falling Rents

    Despite the purported exodus of untethered Silicon Valley workers from the Bay Area, rents in the city are still the highest in the United States. …According to the [...]

    January 24, 2021Media
  • New AHSC Report Highlights Climate & Economic Benefits of 11,300 Sustainable Homes

    The California Housing Partnership has released a new policy brief co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners documenting the substantial community and economic benefits made possible by the first five [...]

    January 19, 2021Media
  • Could California’s Shopping Centers Be a Housing Fix?

    El Camino Real is a 600-mile historic thoroughfare that once linked Spanish missions in California, running from San Francisco to San Diego. Between Daly City and San Jose, the road [...]

    January 19, 2021Media
  • An ‘eviction tsunami’ looms over Fresno, central San Joaquin Valley. What it means for you

    Approximately 2 million people, including children, are at risk of eviction when California’s eviction moratorium expires on Feb. 1. Nationwide, 6.7 million adults are likely to face eviction [...]

    January 15, 2021Media
  • Coronavirus relief may shortchange Bay Area landlords, renters

    With U.S. rental assistance on the horizon for struggling landlords and tenants, Bay Area housing advocates say the region could be shortchanged in a federal distribution that favors [...]

    January 14, 2021Media
  • San Francisco rents are plummeting – but its housing crisis could get worse

    “People who were previously not in need of assistance are now going to need it,” Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the California Housing Partnership, told KQED. “That’s [...]

    January 9, 2021Media
  • Lower Rents in San Francisco Might Not Help Its Housing Troubles

    A host of American cities have experienced pronounced housing inequality since the century began. New York and Seattle both come to mind, but San Francisco stands out even [...]

    January 9, 2021Media
  • Statement on Governor Newsom’s budget proposal

    As leaders in California’s affordable housing movement, we appreciate that Governor Newsom’s budget includes proposals that will help reduce homelessness, increase the supply of affordable housing across California, [...]

    January 8, 2021CHP News, Media, Policy
  • Newsom’s 2021 budget includes billions for California housing, homelessness

    Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to dedicate billions of the 2021 budget toward addressing the state’s housing and homelessness crisis, he said Friday, laying out a proposal that includes [...]

    January 8, 2021Media
  • Embedding Racial Equity in Housing and the Launch of the Community Housing Fund

    An unaffordable rental market has hardest hit those families of color who earn the lowest income.  According to the California Housing Partnership, of the 5.89 million renter households [...]

    December 14, 2020Media
  • Where Can Low Income Renters Go?

    But, by 2018, Clovis’ median income had exceeded Fresno’s by $25,000 and its white population was 26 percentage points higher than Fresno’s, reflecting the fact that the city’s [...]

    December 12, 2020Media
  • An Interview with New HCD Leadership on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in California

    Thank you to Gustavo Velasquez (“GV”), HCD Director, and Tyrone Buckley (“TB”), Assistant Deputy Director of Fair Housing, for sharing their time with us for this conversation on [...]

    December 9, 2020Media, Policy
  • PD Editorial: California loses out on billions for affordable housing

    California’s reputation for exorbitantly priced housing is unassailable, and it creates an extremely high barrier for people in need of affordable housing. The barrier has gotten only higher [...]

    November 25, 2020Media
  • Council to Review Affordable Housing Policy and Production in Pasadena

    In March, a California Affordable Housing Needs Report, published by the California Housing Partnership, suggested there was a drastic need for more affordable housing in California. Over the [...]

    November 23, 2020Media