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35,785 Affordable Homes in California At Risk of Conversion | 2016 Preservation Report
Each year the California Housing Partnership uses data from our Affordable Housing Preservation Clearinghouse to present an annual summary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s [...]
Affordable Housing Outcomes Report Template
The California Housing Partnership developed this template in 2016 for the County of Los Angeles. Although this template was designed specifically for the County of Los Angeles, it can [...]
Income, Location Efficiency, and VMT: Affordable Housing as a Climate Strategy
This paper combines detailed travel-survey, transit-service, and land-use data to estimate a model for predicting the role of income and location efficiency in reducing household vehicle-miles traveled (VMT). [...]
Nonprofit Uses Financing Partnerships to Preserve At-Risk Property Despite Competition
Azusa Apartments is an 88-apartment affordable housing development located in Azusa, California, a Los-Angeles area suburb. The property was built in 1971, subsidized by a U.S. HUD Section 236 [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Contra Costa County Families into Poverty
Key findings
A renter household needs to earn 3.5 times the local minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Contra Costa County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in Contra Costa County increased 17% from 2000 to 2013, while inflation adjusted median renter household income declined 7%. Contra Costa County needs 36.759 additional affordable rental homes to meet the needs of its extremely low income (ELI) and very low-income (VLI) renters.
Energy Efficiency Program Matrix
Matrix of Utility Multifamily Energy Efficiency & Renewable Incentive Programs in California
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Stanislaus Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn nearly twice the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Stanislaus County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Santa Clara County Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn nearly five times the local minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Santa Clara County. Inflation-adjusted median [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More San Diego County Families into Poverty
Key findings A renter household needs to earn more than three times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in San Diego County. Inflation-adjusted median rents [...]
Shortfall of Affordable Homes Increases Burden on Low-Income Families in San Bernardino County
The state created the California Housing Partnership 25 years ago as a private nonprofit organization with a public mission: to monitor, protect, and augment the supply of homes [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Riverside County Families into Poverty
A renter household needs to earn 2.5 times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Riverside County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in Riverside County [...]
Lack of Affordable Housing Driving More Los Angeles County Families into Poverty
Key Findings A renter household needs to earn 4 times the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Los Angeles County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in Los [...]
Shortfall of Affordable Homes Increases Burden on Low-Income Families in Kern County
Key Findings A renter household needs to earn more than the state minimum wage in order to afford average asking rents in Kern County. Inflation-adjusted median rents in [...]
Preserving a Historic Hotel with Innovative Financing and the Partial Transfer of a Section 8 Contract
In February 2015, Christian Church Homes (CCH) celebrated the grand re-opening of the Lorenz Senior Apartments in Redding, California after a major rehabilitation. A historic hotel that had been converted [...]
Mutual Housing California Achieves Zero Net Energy in Woodland | GREEN Case Study
When Mutual Housing at Spring Lake opened its doors, the 62-unit apartment development became the first multifamily affordable rental development in the nation to receive the U.S. Department of [...]
Update on California’s Affordable Housing Crisis: The Critical Role of Housing Access and Affordability in Reducing Poverty
New analysis shows how the shortfall of affordable homes is exacerbating poverty throughout California.
Preservation of Affordable Homes Near Transit Toolkit
This toolkit outlines how community-based organizations and advocates for equitable transit-oriented development can work together with local jurisdictions to assess the risk of losing existing affordable homes both [...]
University Avenue Homes: A Critical Resource in Need of TLC
UA Homes is one of many aging SRO properties in California that provide an important affordable housing resource for low‐income people who would otherwise be homeless. However, at [...]
Garfield Park Village Pioneers SPRAC for Unassisted Section 202 Properties
Located in Santa Cruz, California, and owned and managed by Christian Church Homes (CCH), Garfield Park Village is an affordable senior apartment complex developed in 1964 with a [...]
How San Francisco County’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
San Francisco County has the eighth largest shortfall of homes affordable to low-income families in California. Many of those families live in unhealthy or unsafe conditions, crowd multiple [...]
How San Mateo County’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
There are simply not enough homes in San Mateo County affordable to the low-income families who live there. Many of these families live in unhealthy or unsafe conditions, [...]
How Sacramento County’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
Sacramento County is seventh on the list of counties with the largest shortfalls of homes affordable to low income families in California. Many of those families live in [...]
How Orange County’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
Orange County has the third largest shortfall of homes affordable to low-income families in California. Many of those families live in unhealthy or unsafe conditions, crowd multiple people [...]
How Fresno County’s Housing Market is Failing to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Families
Fresno County has the tenth largest shortfall of homes affordable to low-income families in California. Many of those families live in unhealthy or unsafe conditions, crowd multiple people [...]
