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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]