A Conversation with Stephen Pelz Executive Director, Housing Authority of the County of Kern As California advances its climate goals, public housing authorities (PHAs) are identifying practical [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]