In a joint project between Los Angeles Metro and two private development companies, the North Hollywood station’s park-and-ride lot is proposed to be replaced with a $1 billion [...]

In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to prioritize building affordable housing on government-owned land. “In California, affordable housing is a significant concern,” Acting State Auditor [...]

CALIFORNIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS | 2022 REPORT   CALIFORNIA, March 30, 2022 — State leaders are making an effort to increase the resources supporting California’s lowest income renters, [...]

A state audit report found that the state has failed to act effectively to produce affordable housing necessary to alleviate the state’s housing crisis. “The rapid creation of [...]

Sacramento County did the right thing last week by reversing course on the imminent closure of three motels housing more than 300 formerly homeless people. Following criticism aired [...]

California must build millions of homes by 2030 to address severe housing supply and demand challenges. That’s according to a new report published Wednesday by the California Department of [...]

Running a campaign for mobile home park rent protections from her Huntington Beach living room was not on Carol Rohr’s retirement bucket list. Travel and kayak excursions are [...]

The current California affordable housing crisis will only worsen if nothing more is done to protect the thousands of subsidized affordable rental homes at risk of market rate [...]

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced Friday comprehensive legislation to address the affordable housing and homelessness crises in California and across the country. The Housing for All Act of 2022 would invest [...]

Cities will no longer be able to tack on impact fees to housing units that developers produce through California’s density-bonus program under legislation proposed by state Assembly member [...]

The rental market in Tulare County has been abysmal, and housing prices are not much better. The only answer to the problem is to build more homes and [...]

A bill introduced in the California State Senate this week would reduce costs for affordable housing projects by shifting reserve funds from individual projects to a pooled reserve [...]

A broad coalition is backing a tenant protection bill in the California Legislature, but business and real estate interests are winning so far. The proposal would require landlords [...]

In his budget proposal, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted his support for cities to remove homeless encampments but conceded it’s only a bridge to permanent housing… …Matt Schwartz, president [...]

“We applaud Governor Newsom’s proposal to make new short-term investments that will help California communities reduce the negative impacts of the homeless and housing crises. But the roughly [...]

In order to meet climate goals set by the state, cities across California have passed, or are considering efforts to pass, new local building energy codes aimed at [...]

Addressing Segregation and Unequal Access to Opportunity in California with Affordable Housing Investments: A Path Forward for a Comprehensive Approach   State housing funding agencies recently implemented program [...]

Luxury apartment or essential housing? How America’s most notorious junk municipal bond peddlers are getting rich off California’s affordability crisis. …“It’s like getting a slight discount on a [...]

Another persistent problem plaguing California: its affordable housing crisis. Of the more than 1 million renters who make less than 30% of the statewide area median income, none [...]

For weeks, state leaders have insisted that it’s time for the emergency eviction moratorium to end as payments accelerate from a $5.2 billion federally funded COVID-19 rent relief program. While patchwork [...]

Thousands of California tenants are still struggling to pay rent and fear impending evictions, a new California Housing Partnership report found, despite unprecedented levels of emergency financial assistance [...]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 290, which will update the state’s density bonus law to support more affordable housing, particularly for low-income college [...]

In the late 1990s, the First Methodist Church of Los Angeles decided to repurpose its large property on Flower Street near Staples Center. It brought in downtown-based 1010 [...]

California has been grappling with two significant crises: homelessness and extreme weather events, including drought and wildfires. To address these interrelated crises, new climate policies need to prioritize [...]