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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 [...]
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
May 2, 2025 In April 2024, Priscilla Chan sat on a stage during the five-year anniversary celebration for a housing initiative that she and husband Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy had seeded [...]
Trump corporate tax cuts could cost CA affordable housing $250M
May 1, 2025 If President Trump succeeds in lowering corporate taxes from 21 percent to a historic low of 15 percent, as he has promised to do, the California affordable [...]
In these 4 Bay Area counties, being ‘low-income’ means earning $100K a year
April 30, 2025 In four Bay Area counties, you can now earn a six-figure salary and still be considered low-income. According to the latest state eligibility requirements for [...]
Surprise! Housing Here Sucks, and We Have the Depressing Data to Back it Up
May 1, 2025 More extremely low-income residents in Humboldt County spend more than half of their income on housing than in any other county in California north of [...]
Political Watch: April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025 U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) and U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) recently announced the reintroduction of the Housing for All Act, described as “a comprehensive approach [...]
California Lawmakers Push Housing Laws to Boost Affordability
April 24, 2025 Several high-profile housing and homelessness bills are moving through key legislative committees this week, as lawmakers act with renewed urgency to address the affordability crisis facing Californians. While the [...]
Study Praises Statewide AHSC Program
April 22, 2025 A new report by the California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners studying the outcomes of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program found that AHSC [...]
Padilla, Lieu, Carbajal Announce Transformative Legislation to Address Affordable Housing and Homelessness Crises
April 21, 2025 Housing for All Act would invest in proven solutions to address affordable housing shortages and provide historic level of federal funding for existing programs and [...]
Plans updated for 122-unit affordable housing development at 1318 4th Street
March 25, 2025 Updated plans for a proposed affordable housing development at the former site of Parking Structure 3 were presented recently in a staff report to the Santa Monica [...]
California’s Affordable Housing and Climate Program Delivers Major Gains for Communities and the Environment
March 23, 2025 A new report released by the California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners highlights the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program as one of [...]
Newsom appoints Emeryville Councilmember Welch to California housing agency role
March 18, 2025 Courtney Welch, an Emeryville city councilmember since 2021, has been appointed to the California Housing Partnership Corp., Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said last week. The [...]
Fresh renderings for affordable housing at 1318 4th Street in Santa Monica
March 18, 2025 A staff report to the Santa Monica Architectural Review Board offers a look at updated plans for a proposed affordable housing complex at the former site of [...]
Trump’s cuts are poised to make San Francisco’s homeless problem even worse
March 17, 2025 The president’s efforts to slash HUD threaten to sink a network of nonprofits and dampen prospects for new development. Affordable apartments for retired seniors and [...]
Newsom Names Council Member Welch To Housing Post
March 16, 2025 Courtney Welch, an Emeryville city council member since 2021, has been appointed to the California Housing Partnership Corp., Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said Friday. The [...]
Breaking: Disney Housing Nightmare Unfolds in California
March 16, 2025 Imagine a place where the fairy tale fantasies of Disney come to life – where families can live, work, and play in a beautiful and [...]
