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Renters’ Rebate Bill Passes Key Assembly Committee
A bill to provide for a renters’ rebate for low-income California tenants passed a key committee earlier today. Co-sponsored by Tenants Together, the bill addresses a central demand [...]
CA Transportation Choices Summit Tackles Policy Issues
The California Transportation Choices Summit, held in Sacramento this week, was an opportunity for sustainable transportation and public health advocates to spend the day learning about current state [...]
Bill Seeks to Ease California’s Affordibility Housing Crisis
Most Californians can’t afford their rent. The state’s affordability crisis has worsened since the recession, as soaring home prices and rents outpace job and income growth. Meanwhile, government [...]
Financing Energy Efficiency Retrofits of Multifamily Buildings
Apartment buildings are home to more than 17 million households nationwide, yet they remain a significant and mostly untapped opportunity for energy efficiency gains. Energy efficiency upgrades in [...]
Shortage of Low-Income Housing Pushes Tenants into Dangerous Situations
Dozens of people shared only three showers in the building that Patricia McDowell called home for the last 2 1/2 years. Roaches skittered across the floor, she said, [...]
Housing Authority Looking into Dialing Back Cuts to Section 8
SAN JOSE — Sharon McKain learned in February that she had three months to move out. Her landlord was no longer renting to Section 8 voucher-holders because the [...]
Low-Income Californians Struggle to Find Affordable Housing
A new study from the California Housing Partnership Corp. attributes rising cost of rent and decreasing government aid for a lack of affordable housing available for California’s low-income [...]
New Study Details Depth of California’s Affordable Home Crisis
FEBRUARY 11, 2014 | SACRAMENTO, CA – Today the California Housing Partnership Corporation released a report that shows California’s private housing market is not providing an adequate number [...]
California’s Affordable Rental Housing Crisis
Renters across the nation, and in particular in California, are locked in a pernicious squeeze of rising rents and stagnant incomes that has diverted a growing share of [...]
Report: Rising Rents Hurting California’s Affordability
A combination of rising rents and falling government aid for affordable housing has dealt a blow to California’s lower-income residents, according to a new study. Nearly 1 million [...]
Governor’s Budget Important First Step in Funding Sustainable Communities
Sacramento – Leaders of the Sustainable Communities for All Coalition offered praise for the Governor’s efforts to invest $850 million of cap-and-trade auction proceeds in a wide range [...]
Seniors Get Housing Relief Just in Time
JOSHUA TREE — Until Friday, Jim McCubbin didn’t know how he would fare living in the back of his pickup truck with a camper shell during the winter [...]
The Adviser: Helen Dunlap
Lighting a Spark Between Energy Advocates and Community Development
Is there a good reason for affordable housing practitioners to start paying attention to utility company-sponsored green retrofit programs? Ask an industry insider and they’ll likely tell you [...]
