Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other California elected officials are skeptical as the Trump administration focuses attention on homelessness in California cities, but are hopeful more federal funding [...]

Geared to address a growing crisis of housing affordability, the Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a series of new initiatives aimed at kickstarting construction of 2,640 new [...]

In 2011, while California was experiencing budget issues, Governor Jerry Brown killed redevelopment agencies. Now, there’s a newly proposed bill that would bring a version of these agencies back to [...]

Negotiations between Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo and the owner of a Chinatown apartment complex to keep tenants in their homes—without rent increases—arebreaking down. About 20 residents of the Hillside [...]

On June 26, 2019, California Governor Newsom signed the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 State Budget into law, allocating $1.75 billion to increase housing production. Twenty-nine percent of these funds—$500 [...]

Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis is costing local governments and the state of California billions of dollars. Most of the money being spent to address it comes from taxpayers [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom is right when he says: “Shelter solves sleep. Housing solves homelessness.”  Shelters are short-term responses, not the long-term solution to California’s homelessness crises. That’s why [...]

In the greatest country in the world, a person working 40 hours per week should at least be able to afford life basic needs such as safe and [...]

California communities are approving residential building permits at a slower rate than they did last year, a sign Gov. Gavin Newsom faces an even bigger hurdle to reach [...]

On the campaign trail, Gavin Newsom promised to rapidly expand California’s housing supply, saying he would “lead the effort to develop 3.5 million new housing units” by 2025 [...]

Affordable housing advocates warned that the corporate tax cuts passed by Republicans in 2017 could have disastrous effects on the development of more affordable housing. More than two [...]

Interview with President & CEO of the California Housing Partnership Matt Schwartz: “We had a 1.4 billion dollar reduction in corporate purchases of low-income housing tax credits just [...]

“We welcome his interest in finding solutions to housing low-income families and seniors and the homeless,” said Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the housing nonprofit California Housing [...]

What social and economic benefits are generated when we relieve low-income families of housing insecurity and rent burden? Or when we help households move to healthier higher resource [...]

Mary Zendejas needed to leave her home. She’d had a good run. For a decade she’d cultivated a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment into a place she could call home. [...]

Apartments and condominiums for the middle class could be coming to skid row, under a rezoning plan unveiled Tuesday. But skid row advocates warn the plan, currently in [...]

Rancho Santa Margarita could lose nearly half its supply of affordable housing at the end of this year. The owner of Villa La Paz – a 500-unit apartment [...]

Officials say more affordable housing construction is critical to reducing a growing homeless population in Los Angeles as a shortage of 517,000 low-income housing units plagues Los Angeles [...]

BAKERSFIELD,Calif. — In May the California Housing Partnership stated that Kern County is in a housing crisis for low-income renters and would need 26,000 units to meet the [...]

There’s a big problem with affordable housing: It eventually flips to market rate. In the next five years, by the city’s estimate, 8,597 income-restricted apartments in Los Angeles [...]

“Hi, Thelma,” Shao Zhao said Wednesday evening to her longtime neighbor, Thelma Caseres, who was strolling through the courtyard of the Hillside Villa apartments in Chinatown. Zhao is [...]

Cold hard data can focus the mind of voters and politicians alike. Los Angeles voters have been generous on homelessness issues in recent years, even if they have [...]

In Los Angeles, the epicenter of “a particularly brutal style of homelessness” in which 75 percent of homeless people are unsheltered, the attention often goes to inner-city areas [...]

While Matt Schwartz, CEO of the California Housing Partnership, also welcomed Google’s announcement, he urged it to “provide additional details showing exactly how the $250 million in investments [...]