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New Look, Same Partnership
A Fresh Look, Same Trusted Partnership The California Housing Partnership invites you to explore our new website as we usher in a new look, new tools and new [...]
Low-Income Weatherization Program Multifamily: Impact Report
How California Can Save $439 Million Per Year and Build Thousands More Affordable Homes
California’s ability to address our housing crisis is increasingly being hurt by high development costs including those caused by the state’s fragmented affordable housing finance system. New research [...]
Federal Solar Tax Credit Changes: Why Early Action Matters for Affordable Housing Developers
If your organization is considering adding solar on your multifamily affordable rental housing properties, now is the time to act. Recent federal legislation has changed how renewable energy [...]
The Impact of Residential Mobility on Segregation in California
In this report, Dan Rinzler and Matt Alvarez-Nissen from the California Housing Partnership and research colleagues from UCLA Lewis Center For Regional Policy Studies assess whether and how residential mobility contributes to [...]
Protecting the Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities Program (AHSC)
Here’s How the State of California Can Save $463 Million Annually
The California Housing Partnership and the nonprofit and local government housing agencies we work with are among the biggest users of the state’s affordable housing finance programs and [...]
The struggle for accessible and affordable housing on the Central Coast
March 3, 2025 One San Luis Obispo woman is struggling to find a place to live following an accident last year. The accident left her disabled and now [...]
How Wildfires Threaten California’s Affordable Housing
In early January, multiple wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County causing devastating losses. More than 50,000 acres of land have burned, thousands of homes and businesses have been [...]
The Road to Decarbonizing Affordable Housing and the Importance of Utility Allowances and Electricity Rates
A little known schedule of estimated utility costs paid by renters and published by public housing authorities (PHAs) is threatening California’s progress in decarbonizing affordable rental housing, a [...]
How Are CA’s Funding Programs Progressing on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing?
Co-Authored by Matt Alvarez-Nissen, Research Manager Between 2019 and 2021, the State of California adopted new policies to encourage production of family-serving affordable housing in “high-opportunity” neighborhoods with [...]
Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions?
This report investigates the income required to afford rent across California and the cost burden experienced by households in different income groups. The analysis provides insights indicating the [...]
Why Proposition 5 is Important for Californians
Proposition 5 on California’s November 2024 statewide ballot would set the voter threshold to approve local general obligation (GO) bonds for public infrastructure and affordable housing investments at [...]
Proposition 36 Impacts on Homelessness
Proponents of California Proposition 36, which would undo many of the reforms brought by voter approval of Proposition 47 in 2014, are claiming that voter approval of this [...]
Governor Signs/Vetoes Key Affordable Housing Bills
While state leaders ultimately decided not to approve any new long-term funding for affordable housing production this year beyond the narrowly-focused resources included in Proposition 1 approved by [...]
Expanding Capacity to Achieve California’s Affordable Housing Goals
Housing advocates, agencies, policymakers, and developers in California understand that we need to build more – much more – to meet current and future housing needs, particularly affordable [...]
Who Owns Unsubsidized Affordable Housing?
This blog post and related research were prepared for the California Housing Partnership by undergraduate students at Stanford University as part of the Program on Urban Studies community [...]
Affordable Housing Funds in the Inflation Reduction Act
Interested in a new funding source to support climate-friendly affordable housing? The 2022 federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers potentially billions of dollars toward decarbonization affordable housing in [...]
Have State opportunity area incentives changed the kinds of schools children living in affordable housing have access to?
Discussion about the State of California’s efforts to advance the affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) objective of increasing access to opportunity have typically framed neighborhood opportunity broadly, in [...]
Tackling the Two-Headed Beast: What Dungeons and Dragons Taught Me about the Housing and Climate Crises
Dungeons and Dragons, in its most basic form, is a game where players overcome obstacles while on a quest. Players have near endless options when making decisions, and, [...]
Affordable Housing Compares Favorably to Market-Rate Housing From a Cost Perspective
Have you ever heard someone say that affordable housing costs too much to build? It’s hard to justify that statement unless we first compare the cost of affordable [...]
Examining the Argument that Building Affordable Housing Increases Crime
It seems difficult for many people to escape or deflect the preconceived notion that low-income people or housing dedicated to low-income people will bring “criminal elements” to a [...]
The Pathway Forward for Electrifying Multifamily Affordable Rental Housing
Affordable housing providers are faced with the challenge of providing safe and comfortable housing for low-income families while also being mindful of their impact on the environment. California [...]
Findings from the Los Angeles Affordable Housing Decarbonization Summit
The 2023 Los Angeles Affordable Housing Decarbonization Summit (February 18th, 2023), marked a milestone in the city’s efforts towards sustainable and energy-efficient affordable housing. Organized and hosted by [...]
