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How Wildfires Threaten California’s Affordable Housing
In early January, multiple wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County causing devastating losses. More than 50,000 acres of land have burned, thousands of homes and businesses have been [...]
Why Proposition 5 is Important for Californians
Proposition 5 on California’s November 2024 statewide ballot would set the voter threshold to approve local general obligation (GO) bonds for public infrastructure and affordable housing investments at [...]
Proposition 36 Impacts on Homelessness
Proponents of California Proposition 36, which would undo many of the reforms brought by voter approval of Proposition 47 in 2014, are claiming that voter approval of this [...]
Expanding Capacity to Achieve California’s Affordable Housing Goals
Housing advocates, agencies, policymakers, and developers in California understand that we need to build more – much more – to meet current and future housing needs, particularly affordable [...]
Who Owns Unsubsidized Affordable Housing?
This blog post and related research were prepared for the California Housing Partnership by undergraduate students at Stanford University as part of the Program on Urban Studies community [...]
State Targets Neighborhood Change in Newly Released AFFH Mapping Tool
Earlier this month, California’s Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD) released the final Neighborhood Change Map, which is intended to inform statewide policy for affordable housing and [...]
Affordable Homes At-Risk | 2024 Report
California’s 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 conversion. According [...]
Have State opportunity area incentives changed the kinds of schools children living in affordable housing have access to?
Discussion about the State of California’s efforts to advance the affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) objective of increasing access to opportunity have typically framed neighborhood opportunity broadly, in [...]
Affordable Housing Compares Favorably to Market-Rate Housing From a Cost Perspective
Have you ever heard someone say that affordable housing costs too much to build? It’s hard to justify that statement unless we first compare the cost of affordable [...]
Examining the Argument that Building Affordable Housing Increases Crime
It seems difficult for many people to escape or deflect the preconceived notion that low-income people or housing dedicated to low-income people will bring “criminal elements” to a [...]
Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions in 2022?
As California’s housing crisis has deepened in recent years, more and more families have been affected, leading some state and local leaders to consider investing scarce resources to [...]
The Struggle of Housing Costs for Black and Brown Renters in California – Dashboard Series
Decades of systemic racism and economic inequality have led the cost burden of renter households to vary across racial groups, which can be seen by looking at the [...]
California’s Budget Misses the Mark on Housing – Dashboard Series
This year’s state budget authorized $2.9 billion to fund new and existing housing programs and $3.4 billion to assist individuals experiencing homelessness. While these investments are substantial, this [...]
New report raises major equity concerns with state middle-income housing program
A recent study completed by a team of graduate student researchers at the Goldman School of Public Policy raises major doubts about statewide efforts to reduce rent for [...]
New 2022 Affordable Housing Need Reports for California Counties
Announcing new updates to the Partnership’s online Housing Needs Dashboard data tool (chpc.net/housingneeds) and new housing need reports for all 58 California counties During #AffordableHousingMonth this year, [...]
CalHFA’s Mixed-Income Program (MIP): Outcomes Analysis, Rounds 1-3
By the California Housing Partnership The California Housing Partnership recently analyzed data from the first three years of program awards of CalHFA’s Mixed Income Program (MIP) to assess [...]
How is California meeting the needs of low-income renters?
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, [...]
Rents Trend Upward for Older, More Affordable Properties during the Pandemic – Microblog Series
Launching our inaugural microblog! Throughout the year, the Partnership’s Research team will spotlight various key points from our recent research to provide you with extra perspectives on the [...]
How Many Affordable Homes are At Risk of Conversion in California?
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 [...]
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: A Path Forward for California’s Housing Agencies
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 [...]
Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions in 2021?
As California’s housing crisis has deepened in recent years, more and more families have been affected, leading some state and local leaders to consider investing scarce resources to [...]
New Research: Rents Increase For Low-Income Californians During COVID-19 Pandemic
The prevailing narrative across much of California during the pandemic has been that rents have fallen dramatically in the state’s most populated urban centers, as residents fled in [...]
Where Are California’s Affordable Homes and How Do They Benefit Local Communities?
The California Housing Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of the next phase of our Affordable Housing Map & Benefits Calculator! The newly expanded data tool serves [...]
California’s Renters Still Struggling to Make Rent Despite State’s Eviction Moratorium and Emergency Rental Assistance
The California Housing Partnership has been closely tracking the economic consequences of COVID-19 on California’s renter households since the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey was first released [...]
