Category: Housing Need

New Reports On Bay Area Housing Costs Demonstrates Need For CA Legislature And State Budget To Prioritize Affordable Housing Now

For Immediate Release May 6, 2021 (San Francisco Bay Area) – In anticipation of the release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revision to the 2021-22 state budget proposal, and as affordable housing advocates and supporters across the Bay Area kickoff Affordable Housing Month, a new set of reports from the California Housing Partnership provides a glimpse into the reality of people living and working Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Partnership News, Housing Need, Policy

New Report Shows Challenges Facing Low-Income California Renters in 2021, Calls for Strategic Response

CALIFORNIA, March 18, 2021 — The findings in this year’s 2021 California Affordable Housing Needs Report from the California Housing Partnership tell a clear story: the pandemic impacts have only worsened an already untenable situation facing low-income California renters, with rising homelessness and cost burdens leading to increased housing fragility and worsening racial inequality.   78% of extremely low-income (ELI) renter Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Partnership News, Housing Need

COVID-19 Exacerbates Cost of Living Challenges Throughout the State

As COVID-19 cases continue to spike, households throughout the country find themselves facing the dual threat of loss of income and housing insecurity in the wake of prolonged shelter-in-place mandates. The California Housing Partnership’s Housing Needs Dashboard shows that in California, the cost of living was significantly higher than what many families with low incomes could afford – even before the pandemic.    The Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Housing Need

New Data Underscores California’s Failure to Meet Low-Income Housing Production Goals – Dashboard Series #3

Post updated on 9/24/2020 at 1:10 pm The California Housing Partnership recently updated the Housing Needs Dashboard to include the most current data on how well California’s cities and counties are meeting their regional housing goals for different income groups. This new data reveals not only that nearly every city and county in California is failing to meet its production goals for Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Partnership News, Housing Need

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 also that this situation has persisted for years.  My 22 years of experience working in affordable housing has made clear to me that the private market is unable to produce homes for Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Housing Need

Bay Area Rents Drop But Are Still Too High – Dashboard Series #1

In this California Housing Needs Dashboard blog series, members of the Partnership’s research team highlight key indicators accessible in our new online data tool. The Dashboard provides key affordable housing statistics and housing market metrics for all 58 counties of California. WHO CAN AFFORD TO RENT With the impact of the coronavirus pandemic stretching on, our first spotlight is on Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Partnership News, Housing Need

Webinar: Housing Needs Dashboard Demonstration, July 9

The California Housing Partnership recently launched the Housing Needs Dashboard, a new online data tool to discover and compare housing data for every California county and the state overall: Affordable housing need versus supply Housing market condition indicators Federal and state affordable housing funding levels  Multifamily housing production and preservation trends Join us on Thursday, July 9, at 11:30 am Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Housing Need, Events

New Online Dashboard from the California Housing Partnership Visualizes California’s Housing Needs

The California Housing Partnership is excited to announce the launch of a new Housing Needs Dashboard, an interactive online affordable housing data portal. The Partnership designed the dashboard as a tool through which policymakers, planners, affordable housing providers, and advocates can access key California housing metrics and track indicators over time at both the state and county level.    “We hope the Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Partnership News, Housing Need

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, taxpayers, and local economies. Last month, these efforts culminated in our release of the 2020 California Affordable Housing Needs Report. One of the major data findings from this year’s report is the Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Research, Housing Need

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 ability to house and protect low-income families, seniors, and individuals. We applaud Governor Newsom’s Executive Order protecting renters and ask the Legislature to move forward with longer term plans and resources.   Read More

Author: Christina Gotuaco

Posted in Housing Need, Policy