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California’s homelessness crisis — and possible solutions — explained
California’s most vexing issue is also its most shameful: the large and rising number of residents who lack a safe place to call home. In a state with [...]
Council looks to raise minimum to $15 an hour
While the state is setting a $1 increase in minimum wage in January, the city of Half Moon Bay is looking to expedite the process by raising it [...]
A vestige of segregation that could go before California voters next year
The repeal of a constitutional amendment discouraging public housing — a vestige of pro-segregation sentiment from the 1950s — could go before California voters next year. State lawmakers, backed [...]
New Report Finds Bay Area Needs 235,656 More Affordable Homes
A new report from the California Housing Partnership finds that the Bay Area needs 235,656 more affordable homes just to meet existing needs. The report finds that: High [...]
2019 Bay Area Housing Need Update
The Bay Area needs 235,646 more affordable rental homes. This report highlights the severity of the housing shortfall and provides state and local policy solutions to address the [...]
California Strategic Growth Council Newsletter December 2019
California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners this week released a report highlighting the positive impacts of more than $1.1 billion in investments made over four funding rounds by SGC’s Affordable Housing [...]
CA’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program Works
New annual report outlines progress of program to increase affordable housing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Other benefits: getting agencies to work together, creating new active transportation infrastructure, [...]
Creating Affordable Homes and Sustainable Communities: How AHSC Addresses California’s Most Pressing Challenges | Impact Report: Rounds 1 – 4
The State of California created the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program (AHSC) in 2014 in recognition of the critical role that housing and transportation play furthering the [...]
New Report Reveals How AHSC Addresses California’s Most Pressing Challenges
Today, the California Housing Partnership released a new policy brief — co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners — that documents the substantial community and environmental benefits made possible by the first four [...]
HUD Changes Policy so Low-Income Renters can Access $100M/Year in Solar PV Benefits
The launch of the Solar On Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program on July 1, 2019 marked the largest solar energy investment in multifamily affordable housing to date in [...]
Is Gavin Newsom’s housing policy ‘rudderless’? Advocates want more done to lower California costs
In his first 10 months in office, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved $1.75 billion in new spending on housing programs and helped pass new laws to prevent evictions and [...]
Placer County Supervisors Back Private Housing Trust Proposal
AFFORDABLE HOUSING CHALLENGES | AUBURN, Calif. – A proposed framework for a new private housing trust in Placer County received unanimous support Tuesday from the Placer County Board [...]
‘Dismal’ number of new homes is Fresno’s failure, councilman says. Is there a solution?
Fresno City Councilmember Luis Chavez is pushing a new plan to expand the city’s sphere of influence — an issue past councils have argued could lead to more [...]
Abode Communities Opens Rolland Curtis Gardens after 10-Year-Battle
On November 7, 2019, Abode Communities celebrated the grand opening of Rolland Curtis Gardens, marking a tremendous victory for residents and affordable housing advocates, and providing a fitting capstone [...]
Private housing trust proposal gets support from Placer Board of Supervisors
A proposed framework for a new private housing trust in Placer County received unanimous support Tuesday from the Placer County Board of Supervisors, moving forward a critical initiative [...]
New State Incentives for Pro-Housing Policies Threaten Affordable Home Production
Under a new directive from the Governor who understandably wants to reward jurisdictions doing their part to help the State increase the supply of homes, the California Department [...]
Apple pledges $2.5B to expand affordable housing in California
Tech companies have shouldered much of the blame for the recent housing crunch, as they have brought an influx of jobs that exceeded new housing construction, with incomes [...]
City continues to work toward affordable housing project here
The city of Half Moon Bay, like many other jurisdictions, continues to struggle to facilitate an affordable housing development. Problems include costs associated with attracting a project and [...]
Apartment rents are up almost 19% in Fresno since 2016. What does it cost to rent here?
The average cost to rent an apartment in Fresno rose slightly between August and September, as the city remained one of the least-expensive California cities in which to [...]
Who suffers the most from California’s high rents? It’s not the middle class
California’s middle-class families are facing a rising rent crisis, a reality that prompted a flurry of new state laws to make housing more affordable. But that problem isn’t nearly [...]
Policy Brief 2019: Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions?
This 2019 policy brief investigates the income required to afford rent across California and to better understand the cost burden experienced by households in different income groups. The [...]
Newsom says he’s done a good job fixing California’s housing crisis. Facts say otherwise
On the campaign trail and during his first months in office, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an unprecedented response to California’s housing crisis. He pledged that his administration [...]
County still grapples with housing affordability, homelessness
Rebecca and Ken Green’s homeless experience began long before they found themselves sleeping on the streets and hopping between shelters. “I had trauma, drug abuse, mental illness. Come [...]
Sonoma County seeks single review, rezoning for dozens of potential high-density housing projects
Sonoma County officials are seeking to clear the way for about four dozen higher density housing projects — with at least 500 or more dwellings — on private [...]
