2016 - Page 2 of 2 - California Housing Partnership

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 governments should do more to promote investment in affordable housing or instead focus on unshackling the private housing market. The latter theory, promoted by institutions ranging from the Legislative Analysts Office to Read More

Date: May 24, 2016 Author: Matt Schwartz

Posted in ResearchTagged Displacement, Budget, Research

New Reports Show the Depth of Housing Need in Nine California Counties

May 12, 2016 | Today the California Housing Partnership released reports analyzing housing needs in nine California counties (Alameda, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Mateo, and Ventura). The reports describe a rapid increase in rents that in combination with a dramatic decline in state and federal funding has led to a shortage of more than Read More

Date: May 12, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Housing NeedTagged Housing Need

CHPC Hires Research Director, Expands Policy Team

The California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC) is excited to announce that we have hired Stacey Murphy as our new Research Director to join Policy Analyst Danielle Mazzella in expanding our ability to support our allies in Sacramento and around the state with high quality analysis of affordable housing needs and solutions. Thanks to a grant from the California Water Foundation, we Read More

Date: May 10, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership News

Join CHPC at our Housing CA Conference Institutes and Workshops

April 11, 2016 | The 2016 Housing California Conference kicks off tomorrow, April 12 in Sacramento. The California Housing Partnership is proud that our team of experts will be moderating and speaking in 14 workshops and institutes this year on a variety of topics including affordable housing finance and policy. We hope you will visit one or more of our hosted institutes and workshops Read More

Date: April 11, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership News, Events

35,785 Affordable Homes in California At-Risk of Conversion

Each year the California Housing Partnership uses data from our Affordable Housing Preservation Clearinghouse to present an annual summary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) subsidized housing at risk of loss of affordability in California. The California Housing Partnership collects and analyzes data from HUD and the state to assess risk of conversion to market rate for HUD-subsidized Read More

Date: April 01, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership NewsTagged Housing Need

Using Data to inform Energy and Water Retrofits: Q&A with Tabitha Harrison at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)

Tenderloin Neighborhood Hood Development Corporation (TNDC) is a nonprofit affordable housing and services provider in San Francisco that owns and operates over 2,500 units of housing at 32 propertes. In recent years, TNDC staff members have ramped up energy and water usage benchmarking efforts throughout their portfolio. Tabitha Harrison joined TNDC as the Sustainability Program Manager in November 2015, where Read More

Date: March 07, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership NewsTagged Data, benchmarking, energy, water, resident, Green, sustainability, Preservation

What is Real Cost of Solar in Affordable Housing and Why Should We Care?

As we weigh the value proposition of installing solar PV’s in affordable multifamily rental properties, it is important for housing organizations to have some understanding about what the costs of solar PV are. This can be difficult because there has been very little transparency about the real costs of solar, especially for installations financed through third-party ownership structures, such as Read More

Date: February 17, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership NewsTagged solar

Is 2016 the Year Solar Reaches Low-Income Renters?

Looking back on 2015, several game changing events occurred or were put in play that will enhance solar access and improve the economics of solar investments for affordable housing organizations for years to come. To recap, a big highlight of 2015 was the enactment of the AB 693. AB 693 was introduced by Majority Caucus Leader Susan Eggman (Assembly District Read More

Date: February 08, 2016 Author: Amanda Isbell

Posted in Partnership NewsTagged LIHTC, net energy, CPUC, solar