On October 10, 2024, HASLO celebrated the grand reopening of Anderson Hotel Apartments, a place that some of its senior residents have called home for decades. Their homecoming [...]

Proposition 5 would provide an easier path for residents to approve GO bonds that fund infrastructure and housing investments critical to advancing local needs and priorities by reducing [...]

This 2023 policy brief investigates the income required to afford rent across California and the cost burden experienced by households in different income groups. The analysis provides insights [...]

This 2022 policy brief investigates the income required to afford rent across California and to better understand the cost burden experienced by households in different income groups. The [...]

The Mixed-Income Program (MIP) was created in 2017 after the passage of Senate Bill 2 (SB2), the Building Homes and Jobs Act, to create mixed-income multifamily housing for [...]

The California Housing Partnership organized the second Affordable Housing Building Decarbonization Summit (Summit II) in the fall of 2021. Participants working in affordable housing development and management discussed the practical [...]

State budget advocacy letter to Governor Gavin Newsom from the California Housing Consortium, Housing California, California Housing Partnership, California Coalition for Rural Housing, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern [...]

Summary excerpt of affordable housing provisions in Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2022-23 state budget. 

State housing funding agencies recently implemented program changes to prioritize addressing residential segregation and its harmful effects, specifically through the creation of affordable housing in opportunity-rich neighborhoods. This policy [...]

This 2021 policy brief investigates the income required to afford rent across California and to better understand the cost burden experienced by households in different income groups. The [...]

This policy brief analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on multifamily rents across California. Renter households in older, more affordable rental homes were far less likely to [...]

This memo from the California Housing Partnership, CSG Advisors and HR&A Advisors, Inc. highlights the urgent need for local governments to carefully weigh the potential pitfalls and opportunity costs associated [...]

Numerous cities and jurisdictions have passed local building energy codes, or “reach” codes that require new construction to be all or near electric to decarbonize or remove fossil [...]

Public comments from the California Housing Partnership to the Strategic Growth Council (SGC) on the newest proposed guideline changes to the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program.

The past year has underscored the urgency of many of the goals that guide the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. To date, AHSC has invested more than [...]

How multifamily affordable housing owners with eligible major rehabilitation projects going through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) 4% and 9% programs can utilize SOMAH’s solar incentives and [...]

Presentation at 11th Annual Statewide Energy Efficiency Virtual Forum – Promising Solutions for a Clean Energy Future: One Vision, Many Policy Paths to Local Decarbonization. 

Bay Area-specific clean energy policies and programs for existing multifamily affordable housing properties and how Bay Area developers and organizations apply these policies and programs in order to [...]

Presented at an NPH Brown Bag | Discusses the need to electrify under the 2019 Title 24 Energy Code requirements and reviews residential developments that utilize all-electric packages [...]

An overview of the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) incentive program and the resources available to participating property owners. SOMAH can cover up to 100% of solar [...]

Comments on the proposed changes to the guidelines for the No Place Like Home (NPLH) Program that were issued on June 26, 2020.

We are writing to urge your leadership on one of the most critical issues facing California: the looming eviction crisis for hundreds of thousands of tenants as a [...]

California Housing Partnership analysis of Household Pulse Survey data (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020) on the share of renters that have “no confidence” or “slight confidence” they can pay their [...]