In the exorbitantly expensive Bay Area, you can earn a six-figure salary and still be considered low-income. According to the latest state eligibility requirements for affordable housing, a [...]

More than half of low-income Southern California tenants are paying more for rent than they can afford, the California Housing Partnership says. Even after a near doubling of [...]

Experts have dubbed it “naturally-occurring affordable housing,” but you might know it better as “cheap apartments.”  Whatever you call it, it’s increasingly endangered in California, according to a new [...]

The sudden and spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank didn’t just hit venture-backed tech startups. It also dealt a blow to many of the Bay Area’s largest nonprofit [...]

California is producing only a fraction of the affordable housing it needs, and the state spends far more money to support homeowners than it does to help renters, [...]

Amid a looming $22.5 billion deficit, California housing advocates expressed relief that Gov. Gavin Newsom is largely keeping funding for housing and homelessness programs intact in his 2023–24 budget [...]

California could eliminate homelessness by 2035 — if it’s willing to spend $8.1 billion a year for the next dozen years, according to a first-of-its kind report that [...]

A new report estimates California could end homelessness by 2035 if it spent at least $8.1 billion every year on the problem, a daunting goal that points out [...]

As San Francisco struggles to figure out how to build enough affordable housing to help get homeless people off the streets, experts and officials have looked at different [...]

The lack of affordable housing in Laguna Beach and beyond has reached a tipping point, creating a groundswell of interest in finding solutions. That was the good news [...]

When it came to homelessness and housing affordability this election, California voters sent a clear message to local governments Tuesday in more than 50 ballot measures: do more… [...]

Plans for the construction of 4507 Main Street housing community in South Los Angeles have been announced. The announcement was made by EAH Housing in partnership with St. [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigned on housing production, an issue important to many Californians. But despite some accomplishments, the housing crisis is worse now than when he took office… [...]

For months, U.S. economists have been warning that a recession is looming, and some are saying we may already be in one. But this potential downturn could be [...]

With pandemic-era renter protections ending and rents rising by close to 20 percent, renters in Sacramento are finding it harder to afford housing in the region… …“According to [...]

The San Rafael City Council unanimously approved an urgency ordinance this week prohibiting pandemic-related residential evictions through Sept. 30. Alexis Captanian, the city’s housing analyst, told the council [...]

Dual forces from the public and private sectors are set to converge on Los Angeles in the coming decade, removing thousands of affordably priced homes from the market at [...]

  The California Housing Partnership welcomes three fellows this summer as part of our new Equity Policy Research Fellowship program. This fellowship is a 10-12 week intensive training [...]

Sacramento County has identified 16 locations for potential new homeless shelters, but whether they ever get built is an open question. Advocates for unhoused residents say they probably [...]

Last week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $532.6 million spending plan to combat homelessness countywide. Approximately 87% of the money, $466.75 million, will be [...]

Renters in Sacramento County have to earn more than twice the state’s minimum wage to afford the average two-bedroom apartment, according to a new report.   Last year, renters [...]

Three months into her search for a new apartment closer to family in the South Bay, Judy Jackson is feeling a familiar sense of dread. At age 76, [...]

San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing released preliminary findings of the Point-In-Time Count of unsheltered and sheltered homeless people. The count took place with the help [...]

Standing before a small gathering on a bulldozed dirt lot off East Cliff Drive, MidPen Housing President and CEO Matt Franklin observed that, like many simple good ideas, [...]