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Press Release: Senator Becker Introduces Bill to Cut Costs for Affordable Housing Projects in California
Legislation would free up significant financial resources for affordable housing developments by shifting individual project reserves to a pooled statewide model SACRAMENTO — Senator Josh Becker introduced a [...]
Press Release: Governor Newsom Announces New Awards to Create 2,300 Housing Units
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Governor’s Press Office Thursday, February 3, 2022 (916) 445-4571 Governor Newsom Announces New Awards to Create 2,300 Housing Units Under California Housing Accelerator program, [...]
Statement on Governor Newsom’s Budget 1/10/2022
“We applaud Governor Newsom’s proposal to make new short-term investments that will help California communities reduce the negative impacts of the homeless and housing crises. But the roughly [...]
Who Can Afford to Rent in California’s Many Regions in 2021?
As California’s housing crisis has deepened in recent years, more and more families have been affected, leading some state and local leaders to consider investing scarce resources to [...]
New Research: Rents Increase For Low-Income Californians During COVID-19 Pandemic
The prevailing narrative across much of California during the pandemic has been that rents have fallen dramatically in the state’s most populated urban centers, as residents fled in [...]
Housing Experts Caution Local Governments on JPA Proposals to Convert Luxury Apartments to Government-Owned Middle-Income Housing
The California Housing Partnership joins CSG Advisors and HR&A Advisors, Inc. in highlighting the urgent need for local governments to carefully weigh the potential pitfalls and opportunity costs associated with using property tax exemptions [...]
New Program Provides Energy Burden Relief for Tenants in LA
This blog was co-authored by Agustin Cabrera (LAANE), Blanca De La Cruz (California Housing Partnership), Michele Hasson (NRDC), Kate Heller (EEFA), and Braxton Bridgers (AEA). The Los Angeles [...]
Where Are California’s Affordable Homes and How Do They Benefit Local Communities?
The California Housing Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of the next phase of our Affordable Housing Map & Benefits Calculator! The newly expanded data tool serves [...]
Leading housing advocates call for Build Back Better investment in affordable housing
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 8, 2021 Contact: Adam Bink | abink@spitfirestrategies.com | 716-725-4569 (cell) Leading housing advocates call for Build Back Better investment in affordable housing As Congress and the [...]
Affordable Housing Decarbonization Summit 2021
The California Housing Partnership is pleased to announce that we will hold our second annual Affordable Housing Decarbonization Summit on October 12-14, 2021! Scheduled on three consecutive [...]
Los Angeles County Makes Progress in Addressing Affordable Housing Needs
The California Housing Partnership is pleased to announce the release of Los Angeles County’s 2021 Affordable Housing Outcomes Report. Significantly, the report finds that Los Angeles County’s investments (including [...]
Statement on Gov. Newsom’s Enactment of the 2021/22 State Budget
The California Housing Partnership applauds the historic investment of state resources to help address the dire housing needs of California’s low-income families, including those experiencing homelessness. The enacted state budget [...]
56 of California’s 58 Counties Lacked Enough Affordable Homes Even Before the Pandemic
RELEASE: New 2021 Affordable Housing Needs Reports from the California Housing Partnership Every spring, the Partnership publishes Housing Needs Reports assessing the failure of California’s housing markets to meet the needs of low-income [...]
The American Jobs Plan, President Biden’s $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal
The American Jobs Plan (AJP) includes: $45 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund for the construction and preservation of homes affordable to people with the lowest incomes, [...]
PRESS RELEASE: New Reports On Bay Area Housing Costs Demonstrates Need For CA Legislature And State Budget To Prioritize Affordable Housing Now
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Yesenia Jameson, NPH Alina Harway, NPH Christina Gotuaco, California Housing Partnership May 6, 2021 (San Francisco Bay Area) – In anticipation of the [...]
Federal Action Alert for COVID-19 Renter Relief
This week the House of Representatives will vote on a COVID-19 relief bill (the American Rescue Plan Act) to help America’s lowest-income renters address rent arrears and remain [...]
Creating a Unified Process to Award All State Affordable Rental Housing Funding “One-Stop Shop”
A SYSTEMS ISSUE WITH A HEAVY PRICE TAG (WHITE PAPER) Numerous policymakers have cited the pressing need to reduce the cost and time involved in producing new [...]
Statement on Governor Newsom’s budget proposal
As leaders in California’s affordable housing movement, we appreciate that Governor Newsom’s budget includes proposals that will help reduce homelessness, increase the supply of affordable housing across California, [...]
An Interview with New HCD Leadership on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in California
Thank you to Gustavo Velasquez (“GV”), HCD Director, and Tyrone Buckley (“TB”), Assistant Deputy Director of Fair Housing, for sharing their time with us for this conversation on [...]
The Need for Long-Term State Financing of Affordable Housing – Dashboard Series #2
The California Housing Partnership’s new Housing Needs Dashboard reveals not only that 1.3 million low-income renter households in California do not have access to an affordable home, but [...]
California Affordable Housing Priorities for Congress in the Next COVID-19 Stimulus
At a time when access to affordable homes was already extremely challenging (as described in this recent report by the California Housing Partnership), COVID-19 has devastated California’s low-income [...]
Last Chance to Protect the Community Reinvestment Act
In the midst of the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 crisis and the need to focus on immediate responses, it is difficult but essential to recall what else [...]
Request to Support Affordable Housing Legislation in 2020
Amidst today’s uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and its implications for the daily lives of California’s lowest-income families, now more than ever we need our state leaders to strengthen our [...]
New Report Finds Bay Area Needs 235,656 More Affordable Homes
A new report from the California Housing Partnership finds that the Bay Area needs 235,656 more affordable homes just to meet existing needs. The report finds that: High [...]
