Nov. 12, 2024 Unlike market-rate homes, affordable housing takes a village to finance and build. The federal government chips in with tax credits, and depending on the budget [...]

Nov. 12, 2024 As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously [...]

July 10, 2024 Online maps displaying a peppering of short-term rentals in San Diego have sparked a furor on social media, with commenters discussing whether the proliferation of [...]

Nov 4, 2024 The city of Belmont has taken a step to address housing needs by adopting an updated 2023-2031 Housing Element, a blueprint that aims to improve housing [...]

Nov 5, 2024 As Americans cast their votes in an election dominated by debates over inflation and the cost of living, a ballot measure in Vice President Kamala Harris’ [...]

Oct 30, 2024 Upon graduating from Nevada Union High School in the Summer of 2003, the plan for many in that class of new graduates was to go [...]

Oct 24, 2024 California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good [...]

Oct 18, 2024 In August, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his working-man’s clothes—aviators, jeans, and a trucker hat—starred in a video where he carted people’s possessions out of a homeless [...]

Oct 15, 2024 California voters will decide a statewide proposition this fall that would make it easier for governments to borrow money for affordable housing and local infrastructure [...]

Oct 15, 2024 California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good [...]

Oct 15, 2024 Celia Jiménez here, thinking about Terracina at The Dunes, a 142-apartment affordable housing community right off Highway 1 in Marina. It’s a project I’ve seen from [...]

Oct 15, 2024 The Santa Monica City Council has a development and disposition agreement for the former site of Parking Structure 3 at 1318 4th Street, clearing the way [...]

Oct 8, 2024 Members of the community celebrated the renovation of the Shotover Inn apartments on Wednesday at 325 Broadway in Hamilton City. While looking for a place that could accommodate [...]

Oct 4, 2024 The state of California holds multiple first-place distinctions in the latest annual homeless report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — but [...]

Oct 3, 2024 To pay just $770 a month in rent, Mariana Puche Hernandez tolerated the mold growing in the bathroom of her studio apartment, even the sparks [...]

Sept 28, 2024 Everyone agrees it’s a problem, but no one’s doing anything about it: Article 34 of the California Constitution is widely viewed today as a stain [...]

Sept 27, 2024 Proposition 5, one of 10 propositions coming to the California ballot this November, if passed will allow local infrastructure and housing bonds for low and [...]

Sept 21, 2024 Housing advocates including the National Housing Law Project, the California Housing Partnership, and the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation this week applauded Governor Newsom for [...]

Sept 11, 2024 California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good [...]

Sept 2, 2024 In the ongoing saga of California’s housing crisis, we’re witnessing a classic case of good intentions paving the road to economic hell. The state’s approach [...]

Aug 30, 2024 The Legislature has foisted a $500 million compromise on affordable housing developers and one of the state’s largest construction unions. Not everyone likes the deal [...]

Aug 16, 2024 A key principle of our democratic process is that the will of the people prevails. But right now,  one-third of our voters can override the [...]

Jul. 26, 2024 Time kills all deals, so the saying goes. As a process drags on, doubt, uncertainty and expenses tend to multiply. That has been a recurrent [...]

April 16, 2024 As an advocate for equitable housing solutions, I am deeply concerned about the lack of affordable housing across our state—particularly in the Coachella Valley. Affordable [...]