As Los Angeles County grapples with a severe housing shortage, a new study finds the population could see an increase of one million people in the next two [...]

With all the persistent ranting about the housing crisis — how intractable it is, how it’s driving middle class and poor people from the Bay Area, and how [...]

It isn’t often possible to change the thinking of state officials tasked with the job of spending Cap-and-Trade funds governed by complex and overlapping regulations and statutes. Not [...]

The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other big California cities urged lawmakers Wednesday to address the state’s housing shortage.

Several affordable housing developers are working to close the financing on their latest projects using new “certificated” credits in California. 

CHPC CEO Matt Schwartz interviewed on the connection between Cap-and-Trade and Housing Investments. 

Matt Schwartz and Lisa Hershey urge Gov. Brown to prioritize affordable homes in climate change strategy.

A decline in government spending, rising rents and falling incomes have created a shortage of nearly one million affordable homes in five Southern California counties, the nonprofit California [...]

Housing advocates are pointing to newly released data about the growing gap of affordable options in San Mateo County as evidence that both state and local officials must [...]

CHPC’s Matt Schwartz and NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman offer solutions to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis. 

Skyrocketing rents, shrinking incomes and severe cuts in state- and federal-government support for affordable housing have made it far harder for lower-income Bay Area residents to find a [...]

Los Angeles County officials are trying to stem the potential loss of some 14,000 affordable rentals over the next five years.

Even as officials say affordable housing is a top priority, San Diego County shed more subsidized rental housing over the past two decades than all but two other [...]

President Trump’s election has thrown a wrench into low-income housing development across the country, especially in California.

Sacramento County may seem to have cheaper housing, but an early state Department of Housing and Community Development report shows that it’s just as burdensome as the rest of California. 

CHPC’s Dan Rinzler provides data and context to support the idea that building affordable homes near transit is an effective GhG reduction strategy…

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 has for half a century required the State of California and other federal grantees to affirmatively further fair housing by reducing [...]

California lawmakers recently announced four bills aimed at addressing the state’s affordable housing crisis, including one that seeks to increase the state LIHTC program to $300 million per [...]

Matt Schwartz featured in Desert Sun article describing AB-71 (Chiu). The bill proposes the elimination of the state mortgage interest tax deduction for second homes.

How can California increase the number of homes that people can afford? By giving more money to cities that build sufficient affordable housing … 

A new study shows that median rents at the bottom rung of the San Diego County apartment market rose 16% higher than the market as a whole.

San Francisco, CA ‒ On August 3rd, California’s leading low-income

lean Energy Finance Forum highlights the May report on solar storage released by Clean Energy Group and CHPC. 

“If every seat in the Rose Bowl, Coliseum, Dodger Stadium and Staples Center were an apartment, that would be only half the housing we need…”