EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:  This report is designed to help guide LA County’s allocation of resources across both new and previously existing affordable housing programs.

This report is designed to help guide LA County’s allocation of resources across both new and previously existing affordable housing programs. 

Housing advocates are pointing to newly released data about the growing gap of affordable options in San Mateo County as evidence that both state and local officials must [...]

CHPC’s Matt Schwartz and NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman offer solutions to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis. 

Skyrocketing rents, shrinking incomes and severe cuts in state- and federal-government support for affordable housing have made it far harder for lower-income Bay Area residents to find a [...]

Fact Sheet on AB 1521, which strengthens the state’s existing Affordable Housing Preservation Law by requiring that rental housing with expiring federal and/or state subsidies and/or affordability protections [...]

Los Angeles County officials are trying to stem the potential loss of some 14,000 affordable rentals over the next five years.

CHPC’s water affordability initiative works to increase access to water conservation resources for the nonprofit multifamily affordable rental housing sector in California. Below is the fourth article in [...]

Late last week, the White House released President Trump’s so-called “Skinny Budget” for 2018, which proposes cuts of $54 billion to domestic programs including more than $6.2 billion [...]

Even as officials say affordable housing is a top priority, San Diego County shed more subsidized rental housing over the past two decades than all but two other [...]

In 2016, the California Housing Partnership partnered with Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future and Community Corp of Santa Monica to test On-Bill Repayment (OBR) financing for energy [...]

CHPC’s annual statewide risk assessment shows 31,988 affordable homes are at risk of conversion to market rate within the next five years.  

This resource details the affordable properties and units in California that have been lost due to owners’ decisions to not renew an expiring HUD rental assistance contract (Section [...]

CHPC’s water affordability initiative works to increase access to water conservation resources for the nonprofit multifamily affordable rental housing sector in California. Below is the third article in a GREEN [...]

President Trump’s election has thrown a wrench into low-income housing development across the country, especially in California.

February 24, 2017 newsletter announcing the initial results of CHPC’s Affordable Housing Outcomes Report for the County of Los Angeles. 

Consistent access to energy usage data is a transformative tool for reducing energy consumption at multifamily properties. Data enables building owners to target the most cost efficient energy [...]

Sacramento County may seem to have cheaper housing, but an early state Department of Housing and Community Development report shows that it’s just as burdensome as the rest of California. 

CHPC’s Dan Rinzler provides data and context to support the idea that building affordable homes near transit is an effective GhG reduction strategy…

In collaboration with the California Housing Partnership, the research department of the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council (NCCRC), analyzed the economic impacts of Senator Jim Beall’s SB 3 statewide housing [...]

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 has for half a century required the State of California and other federal grantees to affirmatively further fair housing by reducing [...]

California lawmakers recently announced four bills aimed at addressing the state’s affordable housing crisis, including one that seeks to increase the state LIHTC program to $300 million per [...]

Matt Schwartz featured in Desert Sun article describing AB-71 (Chiu). The bill proposes the elimination of the state mortgage interest tax deduction for second homes.

On December 14, 2016, the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved the SB 350 Barriers Study mandated by Senate Bill 350 to address barriers for low-income households and disadvantaged [...]