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‘It’s A Shame’: California Squandered $2.7 Billion For Affordable Housing, Audit Says
California’s lack of affordable housing is severe and well-documented. One recent estimate says the state needs 1.4 million more affordable rental homes to ease the burden on low-income families. But the state’s convoluted process for [...]
Fortress Fumble on Las Vegas Rail Bond Sale Boosts Housing
California on Wednesday reallocated $600 million of private activity bonds formerly awarded to Fortress Investment Group’s Las Vegas tourist train to affordable housing needs, a win for developers [...]
Response to the State Auditor’s November 2020 Report
We agree with the State Auditor that California must develop and implement a long-term, comprehensive and coordinated plan to house those who are experiencing homelessness and lack access [...]
Can a Stalled Train to Las Vegas Speed Housing Construction in California?
An investment group failed to sell $2.4 billion in bonds to finance the Brightline West high-speed rail project. Housing advocates hope those funds can help ease the state’s home [...]
Rent is up and jobs are scarce in Fresno, as people struggle to make ends meet in COVID-19
The average cost to rent an apartment in Fresno went up since March, putting even more financial pressure on cash-strapped residents during a pandemic. It’s a double whammy [...]
How will Proposition 21 rent control measure impact Fresno-area residents? It’s complicated
Will the passage of Proposition 21 lead to lower rents for Fresno and central San Joaquin Valley residents? It depends on whom you ask.
Revolt of the Landlords
California’s housing crisis walloped 75-year-old Perry Angle and his wife in 2014, when the monthly rent for their one-bedroom apartment in a Santa Rosa senior citizen complex began to [...]
New Data Underscores California’s Failure to Meet Low-Income Housing Production Goals – Dashboard Series #3
Post updated on 9/24/2020 at 1:10 pm The California Housing Partnership recently updated the Housing Needs Dashboard to include the most current data on how well California’s cities and counties [...]
Thousands Of Below Market Rate Housing Units Disappearing, Putting Seniors At Risk
FOSTER CITY (KPIX 5) — Affordable housing in California, already an extremely rare commodity, will likely become even more rare in the next decade.
City Attorney Stops Short-Term Rentals At Venice Apt. Complex
VENICE, CA — City Attorney Mike Feuer said Tuesday that his office obtained a preliminary injunction against the owners of the Ellison Apartments in Venice to prevent them [...]
Affordable housing an important election issue
Petaluma is my hometown. The Phoenix Theater was like Mecca for me and my angsty teenage peers, and I learned to drive a stick shift on our bumpy [...]
New Updates to California’s Affordable Rental Housing Benefits Map
The Affordable Rental Housing Benefits Map (chpc.net/benefitsmap) provides policymakers, housing providers, advocates and elected officials with the data and visual tools to communicate the positive impacts of affordable housing in [...]
Join the Partnership at this Year’s Fall Conferences!
We miss seeing your friendly faces! The pandemic has made personal connections more difficult this year, so we hope you will be able to join us at these [...]
Who wins when San Diego adds granny flats and tiny homes? Residents or tourists?
San Diego continues to encourage adding small units to single-family properties in a push to increase the affordable housing stock, but where city officials struggle is in keeping [...]
GREEN Webinar: Clean Energy For Healthy Affordable Housing, Bay Area
Join us on October 20th at noon for this GREEN Talk! This webinar will focus on Bay Area specific clean energy policies and programs for existing multifamily affordable [...]
Voices for Change | Income Inequality’s Impact on Housing
Continuing the conversation and amplifying the message of those calling for reform, social justice and racial equality. In this “Economy” episode: The pay gap for women of color Income [...]
Facing ‘a wave of evictions’, Newsom, California Democrats debate rent, foreclosure relief
Fabian Ramirez needs more time to catch up on the rent he couldn’t pay when the coronavirus outbreak put him out of work last spring. He’s in the hole [...]
Racial Disparities in Housing Security from COVID-19 Economic Fallout
Racial disparities in access to safe, stable, and affordable housing were present long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit California. People of color are more likely to experience housing cost [...]
Webinar: Lenders and Investors Respond to COVID-19 Impact, Part II, August 18th
Join the California Housing Partnership on Tuesday, August 18 from 3:00-4:30 pm for Part II of the conversation we began in April about the challenges that nonprofit [...]
Data from the Census Bureau Shows Latino and Black People in California are More Worried about Paying Their Rent during this Pandemic
Radio Clip 1 – 43% of Latino renters and 41% of Black renters say they had no or slight confidence they could pay their rent next month. Comments [...]
These Californians are especially worried about paying rent during coronavirus. Is help coming?
Latino and Black tenants in California are much more worried than their white and Asian counterparts about paying their rent in the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus [...]
Backyard homes could stem the state’s housing crisis. In Fresno, most can’t afford to build them
For Lorena Gonzalez, renting out her Fresno backyard cottage isn’t just a way of alleviating the state’s housing crisis — it’s an essential source of income.
City’s affordable housing ideas sputter in crisis
At the beginning of the year it seemed as if Half Moon Bay City Council was creating momentum toward addressing housing needs for some of the most vulnerable [...]
City Council places $900,000 ‘Homes for San Diegans’ bond measure on the November ballot
The San Diego City Council today voted 6-3 on Tuesday to put the ‘Homes for San Diegans’ bond measure on the November 2020 ballot. The measure would raise $900 [...]
