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Where are Affordable Homes Most At Risk in California?
California has already lost 18,043 subsidized affordable rental homes and today, another 6,785 subsidized affordable rental homes are at risk of market rate conversion as soon as next year. These homes house thousands of low-income [...]
59% of Black Renters Behind on Rent Fear Eviction Due to Continued Effects of Pandemic
Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first wave of results from the second phase of the Household Pulse Survey, an experimental survey to measure the social and [...]
Racial Disparities in Housing Security from COVID-19 Economic Fallout
Racial disparities in access to safe, stable, and affordable housing were present long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit California. People of color are more likely to experience housing cost [...]
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 Providers Face Potential $1.7 Billion COVID-19 Loss
In an April 16th post from President & CEO Matt Schwartz, the California Housing Partnership made the case that while Congress, the Governor and the Legislature have taken important steps to address [...]
Demystifying California’s Affordable Homes Shortfall
Much of my work at the California Housing Partnership focuses on analyzing the state of affordable rental housing in California and its impacts on individual residents and families, [...]
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 [...]
New Report Reveals How AHSC Addresses California’s Most Pressing Challenges
Today, the California Housing Partnership released a new policy brief — co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners — that documents the substantial community and environmental benefits made possible by the first four [...]
Mapping the Benefits of Affordable Housing in California
What social and economic benefits are generated when we relieve low-income families of housing insecurity and rent burden? Or when we help households move to healthier higher resource [...]
Affordable Housing Production Stagnant Despite Recent Advances; One in Three Households Unable to Afford Housing and Basic Living Costs in California
A new report from the California Housing Partnership shows that recent state initiatives designed to stimulate production of more affordable rental housing have yet to make a significant impact [...]
New Grant to Document Displacement of Low-Income People of Color in the Bay Area
The California Housing Partnership is pleased to announce a $100,000, one-year grant from The San Francisco Foundation to document the relationship between rental housing affordability and patterns of [...]
California “Penny Wise and Pound Foolish” When It Comes to Affordable Housing
The California Department of Finance (DOF) generally focuses only on the cost to the state of proposed new investments. Just last week they insisted that a common sense proposal by [...]
UC Berkeley Study Finds New Affordable Housing Twice As Effective at Combatting Displacement of Lower-Income Families
As tens of thousands of lower-income Californian renters have been displaced from California’s growing job centers over the past five years, a debate has been raging about whether [...]
