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Hidden in Trump’s spending package: A surprise boost to California’s affordable housing
SOMAH low-income solar program now covers energy storage in California
Homelessness should be prevented, not just treated
11 Effective Ways To Make Houses Affordable In California
High cost of building affordable housing with tax dollars questioned
California Creates First-Ever Standalone Housing Agency Amid Homelessness Crisis
July 14, 2025 California has created a dedicated state housing agency to address its growing housing affordability and homelessness crises. The move separates housing responsibilities from an old [...]
California, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agency
July 11, 2025 After years of soaring rents, increasingly out-of-reach home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis that touches every corner of the state, California is finally creating [...]
Local Government OC Grand Jury Report: Homelessness: Is Orange County Moving in the Right Direction?
July 8, 2025 The Grand Jury sought to determine best practice strategies for both decreasing and preventing homelessness, and what myths and facts are associated with that condition. [...]
HDTI Class of 2025 Completes Transformative Yearlong Training
June 27, 2025 In celebrations across California, 49 affordable housing professionals—including 18 from Los Angeles—graduated from the Housing Development Training Institute (HDTI), a yearlong program led by LISC [...]
Homelessness in California: Recent challenges and new horizons
June 2025, Between 2007 and 2014, the number of people experiencing homelessness in California declined from 140k to 114k. But, after that, homelessness began accelerating (Figure 1), even [...]
Another Bay Area school district invests in teacher housing. Will it help retain employees?
Jun. 13, 2025 The Berkeley Unified School District broke ground recently on a 110-unit affordable apartment complex for teachers and staff. The six-story complex will occupy a portion [...]
Berkeley Unified begins construction on affordable teacher housing project
Jun. 12, 2025 The Berkeley Unified School District broke ground Friday on a 110-unit apartment complex that will offer affordable housing to its teachers. The project is being [...]
Don’t blame AI for Sacramento’s housing crisis
Jun. 10, 2025 OPINION – It’s no secret that Sacramento has a rental affordability crisis. Roughly 30% of Sacramento residents spend half their wages on rent, and the California [...]
Rent crisis soars, pushing California homes out of reach for the average worker
May 30, 2025 The increase in housing construction alone hasn’t resolved California’s escalating housing costs, a revealing analysis by the Daily News highlighted. The analysis also pointed out [...]
MASS EVICTIONS: Trump budget plan would slash Section 8
May 21, 2025 President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal would dramatically reshape federal housing policy. The proposal would cut nearly $33 billion from the Department of [...]
First Reviews of the Governor’s Revised Budget Are In
May 15, 2025 You’ve seen the headlines by now. Governor Newsom released a revised budget for the next fiscal year. The budget spends $322 billion and has a nearly $12 billion deficit that will [...]
Sacramento’s retail and restaurant workers can’t afford the city’s rent. R Street housing community aims to change that
May 14, 2025 Brittany Davidick works at a clothing shop on downtown Sacramento’s R Street, but says she can’t afford to live there. She had to move out [...]
San Diego’s homelessness is outpacing housing options
May 13, 2025 San Diego hasn’t been able to keep up with the pace of its growing homeless population. By the numbers: More than 10,600 people in the county experienced [...]
Trump budget proposes deep rental assistance cuts
May 9, 2025 Millions of low-income Americans could lose access to affordable housing under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2026 federal budget. The plan includes a $26.7 billion reduction [...]
Nonprofit and city leaders release reports on San Diego’s affordability
May 9, 2025 Nonprofit leaders and San Diego city councilmen revealed Thursday what policies are working, what’s not and what’s needed to help San Diegans afford life here. [...]
San Diego housing, child care and welfare programs not working, new reports say
May 9, 2025 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – In not so shocking news, it’s expensive to live in San Diego, two reports released by local nonprofits and government organizations [...]
Op-Ed | Trump’s Housing Cuts Will Hurt Working Poor and Homeless in California
May 9, 2025 At a time when California’s housing crisis is pushing hundreds of thousands into poverty or homelessness, President Donald Trump has proposed a budget that would [...]
City Hall greenlights more funding for $33 million farmworker housing project in southeast Fresno
May 6, 2025 Some of the state’s most essential and vulnerable workers can expect to see a new housing development in southeast Fresno following a pair of renewed [...]
‘Millions out on the street virtually overnight’: How Trump’s budget proposal could affect California
May 5, 2025 On Friday President Trump released a budget blueprint for the next fiscal year that would take a chainsaw to social, environmental and education programs. Some of the [...]
