California Housing Partnership In the News

  December 22, 2023 Just in time for Christmas, the Newsom administration is preparing to dole out more than $500 million to build affordable Read More

You may not have seen the headlines (there weren’t any). You may have missed the raucous debate (there wasn’t much of one). But with Read More

As housing costs continue to rise across the country, affordable housing availability is more important than ever. But data show the affordable housing stock is insufficient to meet demand, Read More

A recent California Housing Partnership report found that 69% of apartments in Fresno County are at risk of becoming unaffordable for people making lower incomes. It’s Read More

In the exorbitantly expensive Bay Area, you can earn a six-figure salary and still be considered low-income. According to the latest state eligibility requirements Read More

More than half of low-income Southern California tenants are paying more for rent than they can afford, the California Housing Partnership says. Even after Read More

Experts have dubbed it “naturally-occurring affordable housing,” but you might know it better as “cheap apartments.”  Whatever you call it, it’s increasingly endangered in Read More

The sudden and spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank didn’t just hit venture-backed tech startups. It also dealt a blow to many of the Read More

California is producing only a fraction of the affordable housing it needs, and the state spends far more money to support homeowners than it Read More

Amid a looming $22.5 billion deficit, California housing advocates expressed relief that Gov. Gavin Newsom is largely keeping funding for housing and homelessness programs Read More

California could eliminate homelessness by 2035 — if it’s willing to spend $8.1 billion a year for the next dozen years, according to a Read More

A new report estimates California could end homelessness by 2035 if it spent at least $8.1 billion every year on the problem, a daunting Read More

As San Francisco struggles to figure out how to build enough affordable housing to help get homeless people off the streets, experts and officials Read More

The lack of affordable housing in Laguna Beach and beyond has reached a tipping point, creating a groundswell of interest in finding solutions. That Read More

When it came to homelessness and housing affordability this election, California voters sent a clear message to local governments Tuesday in more than 50 Read More

Plans for the construction of 4507 Main Street housing community in South Los Angeles have been announced. The announcement was made by EAH Housing Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigned on housing production, an issue important to many Californians. But despite some accomplishments, the housing crisis is worse now than Read More

For months, U.S. economists have been warning that a recession is looming, and some are saying we may already be in one. But this Read More

With pandemic-era renter protections ending and rents rising by close to 20 percent, renters in Sacramento are finding it harder to afford housing in Read More

The San Rafael City Council unanimously approved an urgency ordinance this week prohibiting pandemic-related residential evictions through Sept. 30. Alexis Captanian, the city’s housing Read More

Dual forces from the public and private sectors are set to converge on Los Angeles in the coming decade, removing thousands of affordably priced homes Read More

Sacramento County has identified 16 locations for potential new homeless shelters, but whether they ever get built is an open question. Advocates for unhoused Read More

Last week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $532.6 million spending plan to combat homelessness countywide. Approximately 87% of the money, Read More

Renters in Sacramento County have to earn more than twice the state’s minimum wage to afford the average two-bedroom apartment, according to a new Read More

Three months into her search for a new apartment closer to family in the South Bay, Judy Jackson is feeling a familiar sense of Read More

San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing released preliminary findings of the Point-In-Time Count of unsheltered and sheltered homeless people. The count took Read More

Standing before a small gathering on a bulldozed dirt lot off East Cliff Drive, MidPen Housing President and CEO Matt Franklin observed that, like Read More

As new affordable housing projects are planned throughout the county, MiraCosta College has introduced a new certification program to help fill the gap in Read More

With its stunning views and picturesque small towns, California’s Central Coast has long been home to high housing prices for renters and homeowners alike. Read More

Candidates running for the Los Angeles City Council District 5 representative seat discussed a variety of topics including homelessness, mental health services, housing and Read More

Sen. Bill Dodd announced legislation this week that would assist in the creation of affordable housing in California by identifying excess state property that Read More

More than 3 million Californians with lower incomes could get a break on their taxes under a bill that would significantly increase the credit Read More

California Housing Partnership, an NLIHC state partner, released a report on the state’s affordable housing shortage and investments in housing production. Over the past three years, Read More

In a joint project between Los Angeles Metro and two private development companies, the North Hollywood station’s park-and-ride lot is proposed to be replaced Read More

In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to prioritize building affordable housing on government-owned land. “In California, affordable housing is a significant Read More

A state audit report found that the state has failed to act effectively to produce affordable housing necessary to alleviate the state’s housing crisis. Read More

Sacramento County did the right thing last week by reversing course on the imminent closure of three motels housing more than 300 formerly homeless Read More

California must build millions of homes by 2030 to address severe housing supply and demand challenges. That’s according to a new report published Wednesday by Read More

Running a campaign for mobile home park rent protections from her Huntington Beach living room was not on Carol Rohr’s retirement bucket list. Travel Read More

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced Friday comprehensive legislation to address the affordable housing and homelessness crises in California and across the country. The Housing for All Act Read More

Cities will no longer be able to tack on impact fees to housing units that developers produce through California’s density-bonus program under legislation proposed Read More

The rental market in Tulare County has been abysmal, and housing prices are not much better. The only answer to the problem is to Read More

A bill introduced in the California State Senate this week would reduce costs for affordable housing projects by shifting reserve funds from individual projects Read More

A broad coalition is backing a tenant protection bill in the California Legislature, but business and real estate interests are winning so far. The Read More

Luxury apartment or essential housing? How America’s most notorious junk municipal bond peddlers are getting rich off California’s affordability crisis. …“It’s like getting a Read More

Another persistent problem plaguing California: its affordable housing crisis. Of the more than 1 million renters who make less than 30% of the statewide Read More

For weeks, state leaders have insisted that it’s time for the emergency eviction moratorium to end as payments accelerate from a $5.2 billion federally funded COVID-19 rent Read More

Thousands of California tenants are still struggling to pay rent and fear impending evictions, a new California Housing Partnership report found, despite unprecedented levels Read More

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 290, which will update the state’s density bonus law to support more affordable housing, Read More

In the late 1990s, the First Methodist Church of Los Angeles decided to repurpose its large property on Flower Street near Staples Center. It Read More

California has been grappling with two significant crises: homelessness and extreme weather events, including drought and wildfires. To address these interrelated crises, new climate Read More

The latest report from HUD shows California leading the nation in homelessness and more than 80% of unsheltered individuals in the state’s big cities, Fresno Read More

One of the biggest topics in Los Angeles right now is the need for affordable housing.   In L.A. County, the number of people Read More

During the past 2 ½ years, 28 new workforce housing programs  — the so-called “missing middle” of the housing market — have been created, Read More

Thousands of affordable apartments lay hidden like easter eggs inside brand-new, often luxurious apartment buildings across Los Angeles. …Demand for such housing at below Read More

Weightman is not alone in her struggle to find affordable rental housing in Stanislaus County. In May, the Central Valley’s rental market was ranked Read More

As many as 36 households at Sierra Ridge are at risk of being priced out of their homes as the apartment complex’s contract to Read More

In hopes of plugging the state’s affordable housing shortage, some California government agencies are purchasing buildings, usually luxury ones, and doing the opposite of Read More

Facing an acute housing crisis and rising public anger over tents in public spaces, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved an ambitious Read More

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved $527.1 million in funding for strategies to battle homelessness in fiscal year 2021-22, while expressing Read More

In May of this year, Newsom announced that $12 billion, the biggest investment by any state, would be spent to fight homelessness. Housing advocates say Read More

For many Fresno County renters, finding affordable housing is even more challenging than in previous years, a new report shows. According to the 2021 Affordable Read More

Over 15,000 low-income households in Stanislaus County can’t find an affordable rental home, according to a new report from the California Housing Partnership. The report, Read More

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated challenges faced by low-income renters in Los Angeles County, according to a new report published Read More

A new report from the California Housing Partnership showed that a lack of affordable housing continues to trouble communities in Santa Cruz County. Among other Read More

Local housing advocates are calling on the state to help preserve affordable housing. A recent housing needs report from the California Housing Partnership revealed Read More

Erica Jaramillo knows what it’s like to struggle to find affordable housing.  At the end of July, her lease will expire in the Oak Read More

When she was in grad school to become a therapist, Merika Reagan sketched out her future with a friend. They would each start their Read More

Nearly 60,000 low-income households in Sacramento County can’t find an affordable home to rent, a new report from the California Housing Partnership found. The lack of Read More

From the lobby of a former extended-stay motel in San Diego, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced what he called a historic proposal to end a Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to Read More

Evidence is mounting that the pandemic may have a long-lasting effect on Sacramento’s economy beyond vanquished jobs and businesses, as telecommuters continue to move Read More

The Biden Administration sent a strong message last month with a commitment to cutting U.S. emissions in half by 2030, and it’s clear that housing will Read More

Corporate America has traditionally been content to sit out of conversations about hot-button issues. …Matt Schwartz, president of the California Housing Partnership, thinks the Read More

Anger and frustration rightfully jump out from each page of the recent federal court order creating a right to shelter for the 4,600 unhoused residents in Read More

  In early March, the city of Santa Cruz got word that it had scored $5 million from the competitive federal Local Housing Trust Read More

Tenants and landlords are hurting, homelessness is skyrocketing and the housing market is out of control. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only reason for Read More

Los Angeles is facing a crisis within a crisis when it comes to affordable housing. On top of the county’s well-documented shortage of cheap apartments, thousands Read More

California launched its first-ever “data warehouse” to provide a more complete picture of homelessness in the state, helping local officials make more data-informed policy decisions to prevent Read More

During the pandemic, California home buyers gobbled up single-family homes in exurbs and suburbs while low-income earners struggled to make rent. (AUDIO)

Bogaard will serve with Leslie Barnes,  Former District 3 Councilman Joel Bryant, Philip Burns, Julianna Delgado, Megan Foker, Akila Gibbs, Allison Henry, Sarah Letts, Anne Miskey, Rita Moreno, Phyllis Mueller, Andrew Oliver, Phlunte Riddle,  Stan Rushing, Read More

After five years of planning and months of construction delays, first-time developer Vincent Ricchiuti was ready to open his luxury apartment complex. Then came Read More

Before the pandemic, around 160,000 Californians were homeless on any given night—accounting for more than a quarter of the nation’s homeless population. The number is likely Read More

‘This is the moment to save lives’ A powerful group of nonprofits and housing advocates Thursday called for bold statewide reforms and higher corporate Read More

A new proposal for comprehensive housing reform aimed at ending homelessness in California, Roadmap Home 2030, will be presented to state lawmakers in an Read More

As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane, local leaders must turn their attention to housing.  …When it’s unveiled on March 25, leaders should carefully Read More

As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane, local leaders must turn their attention to housing. …When it’s unveiled on March 25, leaders should carefully Read More

When the board of the Fresno Housing Authority was debating a proposed 60-unit affordable housing project on Willow and Alluvial avenues in Clovis in Read More

In the University Park neighborhood just north of USC, Katherine Guevara and her husband, David Guevara Rosillo, are building a home that will subtly Read More

Millions of dollars in rent and utility assistance will soon become available to Kern County residents as part of a federal spending bill passed Read More

Fresno has the most people per household and the highest percentage of families of large U.S. cities, according to a recent report that analyzed Read More

Governmental red tape has kept 300 affordable housing units standing as a ghost fleet of former military homes with no concrete plan forward. Even Read More

SACRAMENTO (KPIX 5) – More than 100 housing bills have been introduced so far in the California legislature this year, an about face from Read More

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his budget plan, which included big investments in affordable housing and homelessness. As leaders in California’s affordable housing Read More

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his budget plan, which included big investments in affordable housing and homelessness.  …On Jan. 26, Housing California and Read More

Consider the Rubik’s Cube challenge of assembling money to pay for an affordable housing project. …It’s not just Sacramento, of course. In San Joaquin Read More

(Audio) California Report: A group of housing organizations is releasing an ambitious plan today to build 1.2 million new affordable homes and end homelessness Read More

After years of legislative defeats of bold housing reform, affordable housing advocates have formed a nascent coalition including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, other major Read More

After watching a homeless man beat up his girlfriend, Claudia Parola had had it. She was fed up with the drugs being dealt outside the Read More

Despite the purported exodus of untethered Silicon Valley workers from the Bay Area, rents in the city are still the highest in the United Read More

El Camino Real is a 600-mile historic thoroughfare that once linked Spanish missions in California, running from San Francisco to San Diego. Between Daly City and Read More

Approximately 2 million people, including children, are at risk of eviction when California’s eviction moratorium expires on Feb. 1. Nationwide, 6.7 million adults are Read More

With U.S. rental assistance on the horizon for struggling landlords and tenants, Bay Area housing advocates say the region could be shortchanged in a Read More

“People who were previously not in need of assistance are now going to need it,” Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the California Housing Read More

A host of American cities have experienced pronounced housing inequality since the century began. New York and Seattle both come to mind, but San Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to dedicate billions of the 2021 budget toward addressing the state’s housing and homelessness crisis, he said Friday, laying out Read More

But, by 2018, Clovis’ median income had exceeded Fresno’s by $25,000 and its white population was 26 percentage points higher than Fresno’s, reflecting the Read More

Counties across the state are beginning to stop operating these hotels as shelters and are moving as many as possible into permanent housing. But Read More

California’s reputation for exorbitantly priced housing is unassailable, and it creates an extremely high barrier for people in need of affordable housing. The barrier Read More

San Diego continues to encourage adding small units to single-family properties in a push to increase the affordable housing stock, but where city officials Read More

Fabian Ramirez needs more time to catch up on the rent he couldn’t pay when the coronavirus outbreak put him out of work last spring. Read More

Radio Clip 1 – 43% of Latino renters and 41% of Black renters say they had no or slight confidence they could pay their Read More

(Aired 2:52:00 pm) As the report finds, a number of Bay Area counties remain among the least affordable in the Read More

This November, San Diegans could be voting on a ballot measure that would approve 900-million dollars in spending on affordable housing. The ballot measure Read More

CHICO — After a two-month stall due to COVID-19, the housing market in Chico is growing hotter. Prices and inventory seemed to chill beginning in Read More

The California Senate voted to reject Senate Bill 50 last week, ending (at least temporarily) a high-profile debate about housing development and density. That heated conversation Read More

When she was president of the Santa Rosa school board, Jenni Klose got invited to a lot of public events. Many invitations came in Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken grief for failing to fulfill what seems like a pretty achievable campaign promise: appointing a homelessness “czar” to help the Read More

California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners this week released a report highlighting the positive impacts of more than $1.1 billion in investments made over four funding Read More

In his first 10 months in office, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved $1.75 billion in new spending on housing programs and helped pass new laws Read More

AFFORDABLE HOUSING CHALLENGES | AUBURN, Calif. – A proposed framework for a new private housing trust in Placer County received unanimous support Tuesday from Read More

Fresno City Councilmember Luis Chavez is pushing a new plan to expand the city’s sphere of influence — an issue past councils have argued Read More

A proposed framework for a new private housing trust in Placer County received unanimous support Tuesday from the Placer County Board of Supervisors, moving Read More

Tech companies have shouldered much of the blame for the recent housing crunch, as they have brought an influx of jobs that exceeded new Read More

The city of Half Moon Bay, like many other jurisdictions, continues to struggle to facilitate an affordable housing development. Problems include costs associated with Read More

The average cost to rent an apartment in Fresno rose slightly between August and September, as the city remained one of the least-expensive California Read More

California’s middle-class families are facing a rising rent crisis, a reality that prompted a flurry of new state laws to make housing more affordable. But Read More

On the campaign trail and during his first months in office, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an unprecedented response to California’s housing crisis. He Read More

Rebecca and Ken Green’s homeless experience began long before they found themselves sleeping on the streets and hopping between shelters. “I had trauma, drug Read More

Sonoma County officials are seeking to clear the way for about four dozen higher density housing projects — with at least 500 or more Read More

A supportive housing firm is planning to redevelop a property near Hollywood with 454 affordable units to help address the growing homeless population and the corresponding affordability Read More

The region has been one of the least affordable places to live in the country for years. But now the local Consumer Price Index Read More

A new state housing bill that will suspend added development restrictions by local governments, such as housing moratoriums and added fees, is set to Read More

Article 34 of the California Constitution requires cities to submit projects to a voter referendum when public funds are allocated to developing low-income rental Read More

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other California elected officials are skeptical as the Trump administration focuses attention on homelessness in California cities, but are Read More

Geared to address a growing crisis of housing affordability, the Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a series of new initiatives aimed at kickstarting Read More

In 2011, while California was experiencing budget issues, Governor Jerry Brown killed redevelopment agencies. Now, there’s a newly proposed bill that would bring a version of Read More

Negotiations between Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo and the owner of a Chinatown apartment complex to keep tenants in their homes—without rent increases—arebreaking down. About 20 Read More

Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis is costing local governments and the state of California billions of dollars. Most of the money being spent to address Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom is right when he says: “Shelter solves sleep. Housing solves homelessness.”  Shelters are short-term responses, not the long-term solution to California’s Read More

In the greatest country in the world, a person working 40 hours per week should at least be able to afford life basic needs Read More

California communities are approving residential building permits at a slower rate than they did last year, a sign Gov. Gavin Newsom faces an even Read More

On the campaign trail, Gavin Newsom promised to rapidly expand California’s housing supply, saying he would “lead the effort to develop 3.5 million new Read More

Affordable housing advocates warned that the corporate tax cuts passed by Republicans in 2017 could have disastrous effects on the development of more affordable Read More

Interview with President & CEO of the California Housing Partnership Matt Schwartz: “We had a 1.4 billion dollar reduction in corporate purchases of low-income Read More

“We welcome his interest in finding solutions to housing low-income families and seniors and the homeless,” said Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the Read More

Mary Zendejas needed to leave her home. She’d had a good run. For a decade she’d cultivated a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment into a place Read More

Apartments and condominiums for the middle class could be coming to skid row, under a rezoning plan unveiled Tuesday. But skid row advocates warn Read More

Rancho Santa Margarita could lose nearly half its supply of affordable housing at the end of this year. The owner of Villa La Paz Read More

Officials say more affordable housing construction is critical to reducing a growing homeless population in Los Angeles as a shortage of 517,000 low-income housing Read More

BAKERSFIELD,Calif. — In May the California Housing Partnership stated that Kern County is in a housing crisis for low-income renters and would need 26,000 Read More

There’s a big problem with affordable housing: It eventually flips to market rate. In the next five years, by the city’s estimate, 8,597 income-restricted Read More

“Hi, Thelma,” Shao Zhao said Wednesday evening to her longtime neighbor, Thelma Caseres, who was strolling through the courtyard of the Hillside Villa apartments Read More

Cold hard data can focus the mind of voters and politicians alike. Los Angeles voters have been generous on homelessness issues in recent years, Read More

In Los Angeles, the epicenter of “a particularly brutal style of homelessness” in which 75 percent of homeless people are unsheltered, the attention often Read More

While Matt Schwartz, CEO of the California Housing Partnership, also welcomed Google’s announcement, he urged it to “provide additional details showing exactly how the Read More

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday, Jan. 11, to ban landlords from discriminating against would-be tenants with government-issued housing vouchers or Read More

If you’re looking for affordable housing in Fresno and hope to receive rental assistance, you have about two weeks to submit your application to Read More

In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County’s multibillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on Read More

A series of reports on eight Valley counties show a staggering deficit of available housing for low-income renters and increasing costs pushing housing options Read More

The news is bad. The number of people living in Los Angeles County without a permanent home is up 12% across the board. The Read More

Homelessness is up in Los Angeles County for the third time in four years. Numbers released Tuesday show nearly 59,000 people living on the Read More

On a recent spring day, bulldozers leveled the low-slung Holiday Auto Plaza in Palms, home to several repair shops. Just another unremarkable commercial building Read More

Sacramento County needs 63,00 new apartments and homes to meet the demand of renters, according to a new report by the California Housing Partnership. Read More

Advocates of affordable housing have begun a campaign for a $900 million city bond issue to fund construction of 7,500 units for veterans, elderly Read More

For more than a decade, Shao Zhao has called Chinatown’s sprawling, green stucco Hillside Villa apartment complex her home. Perched off Cesar Chavez Avenue, Read More

Los Angeles’s affordable housing crisis is well documented, but an annual report from the California Housing Partnership and the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing shines Read More

Fewer than a third of low-income families have access to housing they can afford in Southern California, a housing advocacy group reported Tuesday, May Read More

A new report makes a strong case for Los Angeles leaders to reassess the city’s investments in energy efficiency programs to ensure they better serve affordable Read More

A landmark bill to spur housing development statewide, including near transit centers such as the North Bay’s commuter train line, will be revived next Read More

We know how to slash energy bills and reduce climate pollution for low-income housing in California. A new report shows that more than 10,000 low-income renter Read More

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced a collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Institute to catalyze the development of a speedy and Read More

If you don’t earn at least $36 per hour, you can’t afford to live in Solano County, the most affordable county in the Bay Read More

California’s governor wants to fund housing for families whose moderate income puts them beyond the scope of current assistance programs. Similar efforts are underway Read More

Sacramento, CA. — As activists barnstorm California’s Capital this week, advocating for solutions to the state’s housing crisis, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ (D – Oakland) Read More

Fresno experienced one of the highest rates of year-over-year increases in apartment rents among California’s 10 largest cities between March 2018 and March 2019, Read More

Most Los Angeles renters are probably all too aware of the city’s high housing costs, but a new report from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Read More

For the last three decades, Hillside Villa, a pale green, stucco-coated building on Hill Place has been, for several hundred residents of Chinatown, a consistently Read More

Thousands of Central Valley residents live under a constant threat and wonder, “How much longer can I afford to stay in my home?”

Despite recent laws and new funding to boost housing construction, California still needs 1.4 million more affordable rental units, according to a report out Thursday. Of Read More

It’s no secret that there is an affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles, and it doesn’t appear to be getting any better. To help paint the Read More

LOS Angeles’ downtown was little more than a sleepy office district not too long ago, where tens of thousands of suburbanites would clear out Read More

California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with an expected launch of Read More

To meet its aggressive goals for fighting climate change, California wants to wean millions of homes and businesses in the state off natural gas.

Rising Bay Area rents have taken the heaviest toll on minority communities, displacing more low-income black, Latino and Asian residents than poor white residents, Read More

In his inaugural address last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to create “a Marshall Plan” to alleviate the state’s housing shortage.

As Bay Area communities struggle to build enough housing for their poorest residents, one factor keeps threatening their progress: the affordable housing they already have Read More

On the campaign trail, Gavin Newsom promised a “Marshall Plan” to confront California’s affordable housing crisis. He said he’d help the state build its Read More

The Bay Area’s housing crisis isn’t just straining residents’ wallets. According to a new study from UC Berkeley and the California Housing Partnership, it’s resegregating cities, Read More

The rising cost of housing in the Bay Area has dramatically resegregated neighborhoods by race and pushed minority families to the outer edges of Read More

The Fresno Housing Authority hosted an Affordable Housing Listening Tour featuring California State Treasurer Fiona Ma at the Legacy Commons apartment complex in Fresno Read More

Bay Area power brokers fired a major shot in the fight against the housing shortage Thursday, as tech leaders, elected officials and philanthropists came together Read More

Last summer, a Fresno family repeatedly asked their landlord to repair a faulty electrical system in their home. The landlord ignored their pleas, the Read More

Northern California’s recent wildfires have burned homes at a greater pace than developers are building them, deepening a housing shortage that already has left Read More

Amid a rapid rise in housing costs in many parts of the country, voters in eight states will consider measures today that would either Read More

County supervisors have approved a deal to put 196 affordable units in the huge Mariners Village apartment complex in Marina del Rey.

In August, a developer unfurled a banner on the under-construction Palo Verde Apartments on Peck Road in El Monte, encouraging passersby — especially people Read More

The gap that exists between the number of homes demanded in the state of California and the number of homes supplied has widened rapidly Read More

California’s expensive housing market is pushing people out. That’s a top concern for some as they head to the polls. In Santa Cruz County, Read More

In its latest step to address the local housing crisis, Santa Cruz County is putting together a pilot program that would lower development fees Read More

Nearly a third of Bay Area renters are one financial emergency away from missing a rent payment — and potentially getting slapped with an Read More

Soaring Bay Area housing costs have led to a wave of racial and income segregation, according to a new report from the University of Read More

New reports from the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley and the California Housing Partnership confirm that rising housing costs between 2000 and 2015 Read More

Los Angeles may reach a housing goal set by Mayor Eric Garcetti ahead of schedule, according to the city’s planning director, Vince Bertoni.

The Bay Area’s soaring housing costs are pushing out low-income families of color at a greater rate than their white counterparts, according to a Read More

UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project and the California Housing Partnership released a study about how the concentration of highly paid workers in the central Bay Area Read More

The Bay Area’s soaring housing costs are pushing poor people into neighborhoods where poverty and racial segregation are on the rise, a UC Berkeley study Read More

According to a nonprofit that looks at housing, Santa Cruz County needs to create nearly 12,000 affordable rental homes to meet local demand. 

A new report says Santa Cruz County is falling far behind where it should be to meet the demand for affordable housing.

Santa Cruz County is in need of nearly 12,000 new affordable rental homes to meet demand, according to a report released Tuesday by the Read More

Jose Nunez has lived for 20 years in a small studio in the Florence-Firestone area, and says he has always paid the rent on Read More

Apartment rent prices were on the rise in Fresno compared to a year ago, with the average monthly cost in August more than 5 Read More

A team of leading clean energy and affordable housing organizations in California will run the state’s new Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program. 

Over 134,000 Californians now face homelessness on any given night. Recent research conducted at UCLA found that there is a correlation between high cost Read More

Low-income renters in San Joaquin County are spending 63 percent of their income on rent and the production of affordable housing in the county Read More

On any given night in California, there are about 134,000 people without a home, according to annual data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Read More

Stanislaus County needs nearly 20,000 more apartments and other affordable housing to meet the needs of its low-income renters, according to a California Housing Read More

Faced with mounting public concern and an uptick in homelessness, the Kern County Board of Supervisors held a community meeting Monday to discuss how Read More

According to homelessness counts between 2010 and 2017, the number of homeless people across Los Angeles County went from 38,700 to over 55,000 – Read More

In response to rising rents in California, Sen. Kamala Harris introduced legislation last month intended to provide relief to renters. The Rent Relief Act would create a refundable tax Read More

“This is my make-it-or-break-it moment,” David Casarez said. “I have to do something crazy.” The 26-year-old told an NBC affiliate that he was just Read More

Affordable housing advocates think they’ve got a way to combat San Diego’s affordable housing shortage: keep track of the city’s affordable housing.

With a $250,000 donation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has stepped forward to support an effort to ease California’s affordable housing difficulties. 

Sonoma County’s affordable housing crisis, which was challenging prior to the Tubbs fire, is now on the verge of catastrophe. The county and all nine Read More

Housing costs are climbing across Southern California, but low-income families are the ones being hit the hardest. If you pay more than 30 percent Read More

Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that will increase Read More

In Sacramento County, a renter needs to earn nearly $27 an hour to afford the area’s median rent of $1,400 per month, according to Read More

Rental prices in Los Angeles creeped up slightly in May, according to a new report from Apartment List. The median price for a two-bedroom apartment is Read More

The number of homeless residents across Los Angeles County has dropped to 53,195, new figures show. That 3 percent dip since 2017 is the Read More

After three years of growing homelessness, the population of people without a permanent or stable roof over their heads in Los Angeles County fell Read More

HIT – Kern County is the king of wind power. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Kern’s 4,581 wind turbines are more than any Read More

New reports from the nonprofit California Housing Partnership provide insight into just how significant the shortage of affordable housing in Southern California really is. Read More

When Rosalina Hernández and her husband moved into their studio apartment on Los Angeles Street in South Central LA 15 years ago, the place Read More

The loss of redevelopment funding was a major cause of San Diego’s housing and homelessness crisis. That’s the conclusion of a new report released by the San Read More

Kern County has seen an 85 percent reduction in low-income housing production just since 2016, according to a new report from the California Housing Read More

Los Angeles County has an extreme shortfall of affordable housing, according to a new report from the California Housing Partnership and the Southern California Read More

FAIRFIELD — A $5 billion proposal to fund homeless and affordable housing projects was introduced Wednesday in the state Senate. The bill was applauded Read More

Las familias de bajos ingresos en San Diego están gastando alrededor del 69 por ciento de sus ingresos en vivienda, según un nuevo informe Read More

A report from the San Diego Housing Federation and the California Housing Partnership finds a direct relationship between a lack of state bond funding Read More

San Diego’s affordable housing crisis has been getting more dire over the last five years because there’s a lack of resources, a new report from Read More

Los Angeles and Orange Counties have a shortfall of more than 660,000 homes affordable to the poorest families in the region — those earning Read More

Low-income families in San Diego are spending about 69 percent of their income on housing, according to a new report released by the California Read More

Affordable housing advocates are blaming the 6-year-old elimination of California redevelopment agencies and other reductions in government funding for a near-137,000 unit shortfall in Read More

A new bill working its way through the state legislature could provide California cities with more funding for affordable housing and public transit projects.

California’s housing crisis is centered in the Bay Area, and the region’s booming economy is increasingly inequitable and unsustainable. That’s the message of two Read More

California just became the first state to mandate solar panels on nearly all new residential homes. The mandate is part of California’s “Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan,” Read More

California took a major step Wednesday toward becoming the first state to require solar panels on nearly all new homes, the latest sign of Read More

In a creative move that says housing issues are a priority, civic leaders around the Bay Area are declaring next week “Affordable Housing Week.”

Another grim report about the housing crisis emerged this week — this one stating renters living in Santa Clara County need to earn $54.81 Read More

A new report from the California Housing Partnership, an affordable housing non-profit, shows just how wide the gulf between Bay Area housing costs and wages Read More

To afford median rent in many Bay Area counties, a worker must make nearly four times the local minimum wage, according to a new report by Read More

Fresno County needs more than 41,000 affordable rental homes to meet demand and reduce the burden on low-income families, according to a new housing emergency Read More

A new report highlights the grim reality of renters struggling to keep a roof over their heads in the midst of a tech-fueled economic Read More

The California Housing Partnership released a detailed report about the housing emergencies in Fresno County for low-income renters. It found that renters need to Read More

L.A. County is at risk of losing roughly $3 billion worth of affordable housing in the next five years, according to a draft report Read More

On 1st Street in Santa Ana — not far from where authorities recently cleared a tent encampment along the Santa Ana River near Angel Read More

California’s homeownership rates are the lowest they’ve been since the 1940s, but that’s not stopping homeowners from getting enormous subsidies from the state.

Homeowners in California received nearly $6 billion in state tax subsidies last year, according to a new report that also revealed a wide gap between Read More

L.A. County officials, looking to address massive housing affordability challenges, are looking to expand the ways they encourage construction of low-income housing.

In the Jan. 31 editorial “Unsure About Rent Control? Here’s Another Way to Protect California Tenants,” the columnist Erika Smith presented repetitive myths about the Read More

The California Housing Partnership Corporation, in its March 2018 report, California’s Housing Emergency, found that the State of California’s expenditures per household are “highly inequitable” Read More

Commentary by Sue Reynolds and Matt Schwartz on how the Republican tax plan hurts the San Diego housing market and devalues the LIHTC.

IN THE EARLY-MORNING hours of December 6, a wildfire began spreading through the hills surrounding Bel Air, California, eventually blazing through the Santa Monica Mountains Read More

The vast majority of urban areas in the California—including Los Angeles—are failing to approve enough housing, a report released this week by the state Department of Read More

Nearly all the cities and counties in California — 97.6 percent — are failing to approve the housing needed to keep pace with population growth and will Read More

California lawmakers are preparing new housing legislation this week, just months after Democrats in both houses pushed through the biggest legislative package on housing Read More

The new Republican tax overhaul will likely chop plans for thousands of new affordable homes in California and further squeeze low-income renters, but experts say Read More

The new Republican tax overhaul will likely chop plans for thousands of new affordable homes in California and further squeeze low-income renters, but experts say Read More

Housing the homeless is a sticky wicket in San Diego. It’s even more daunting when those homeless are senior citizens with health issues. 

The Senate passed a sweeping tax bill Saturday morning that has housing advocates, real estate agents and industry groups worried.

As Los Angeles County grapples with a severe housing shortage, a new study finds the population could see an increase of one million people Read More

With all the persistent ranting about the housing crisis — how intractable it is, how it’s driving middle class and poor people from the Read More

The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other big California cities urged lawmakers Wednesday to address the state’s housing shortage.

Several affordable housing developers are working to close the financing on their latest projects using new “certificated” credits in California. 

CHPC CEO Matt Schwartz interviewed on the connection between Cap-and-Trade and Housing Investments. 

Matt Schwartz and Lisa Hershey urge Gov. Brown to prioritize affordable homes in climate change strategy.

A decline in government spending, rising rents and falling incomes have created a shortage of nearly one million affordable homes in five Southern California Read More

Housing advocates are pointing to newly released data about the growing gap of affordable options in San Mateo County as evidence that both state Read More

CHPC’s Matt Schwartz and NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman offer solutions to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis. 

Skyrocketing rents, shrinking incomes and severe cuts in state- and federal-government support for affordable housing have made it far harder for lower-income Bay Area Read More

Los Angeles County officials are trying to stem the potential loss of some 14,000 affordable rentals over the next five years.

Even as officials say affordable housing is a top priority, San Diego County shed more subsidized rental housing over the past two decades than Read More

President Trump’s election has thrown a wrench into low-income housing development across the country, especially in California.

Sacramento County may seem to have cheaper housing, but an early state Department of Housing and Community Development report shows that it’s just as burdensome as Read More

CHPC’s Dan Rinzler provides data and context to support the idea that building affordable homes near transit is an effective GhG reduction strategy…

California lawmakers recently announced four bills aimed at addressing the state’s affordable housing crisis, including one that seeks to increase the state LIHTC program Read More

Matt Schwartz featured in Desert Sun article describing AB-71 (Chiu). The bill proposes the elimination of the state mortgage interest tax deduction for second Read More

How can California increase the number of homes that people can afford? By giving more money to cities that build sufficient affordable housing … 

San Francisco, CA ‒ On August 3rd, California’s leading low-income

Each year, Southern California adds the equivalent of a new Pasadena, a new Fullerton, or a new city of Orange to its population…

CHPC’s Matt Schwartz weighs in on Governor Brown’s plan to tie funding for affordable homes to a streamlined approval process for developers. 

Higher rents and cuts in affordable housing funding are exacerbating the housing crisis.

A new study released today finds that Sacramento County workers need to earn more than twice today’s minimum wage of $10 in order to Read More

Renting a newly built apartment in San Diego County for $424 a month is possible, but you literally need to win a lottery. At Read More

California leads the nation in having the most severely rent-burdened households, as well as having the largest shortage of affordable rental homes. (The U.S. Read More

A widening gap between declining incomes and rising rents is fueling two powerful movements in the Golden State: one to raise the wage floor Read More

Fighting an uphill battle like most California cities to provide affordable housing, Menlo Park sees some light ahead …

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed two bills that would have provided more than $1 billion for affordable housing projects, citing a need for … 

The lack of affordable housing in the Inland Empire is placing more families at risk of falling into poverty. … 

Kern and Stanislaus counties each have multiple hurdles to overcome if the needs of low-income renters are to be met … 

This summer, the California Supreme Court sided with the city of San Jose in a case that is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court… 

Behind more than 16,000 doors in the Coachella Valley, people live in subsidized housing. Inside those homes are senior citizens … 

The demand for affordable housing can be counted by the tents lining Los Angeles streets and the number of people who live inside them. Read More

Los Angeles is stuck in a housing crisis with little hope for an easy escape. The standard definition of “affordable” is  … 

More than six months past New Year’s Eve, the champagne corks are still popping. … 

If any doubt remained, a new study shows that the lack of affordable housing is a full-blown crisis, particularly for the poorest among us. Read More

The state’s cap-and-trade program this year will provide $122 million in funding for affordable housing, including more than 800 new units in …

As Silicon Valley’s lack of affordable housing has escalated from bad to full-blown crisis over the last few years, people at the bottom …

Despite upbeat news of an economy on an upswing, thousands of families in Kern County and other parts of the Valley remain stuck … 

It is well known that substandard housing conditions and homelessness lead to bad health. …

For Gov. Jerry Brown, fighting climate change is more than a central tenet of his political agenda. It’s also a key source of funding. Read More

The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County jumped 12 percent in the past two years, to more than 44,000 … 

A large coalition of activist groups pushed successfully for affordable housing goals, local hiring, and environmental mitigations. … 

California’s high housing costs threaten the state’s economy as workers increasingly struggle to afford a roof over their heads, … 

REDWOOD CITY — The affordable housing market has become so dire in San Mateo County that the Board of Supervisors is ready to … 

Until the mid-2000s, the South Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles had exactly one high-rise tower: the looming, vaguely Stalinist Transamerica Building. … 

Yesterday the Strategic Growth Council adopted guidelines for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program and scheduled workshops for early February to …

You need to earn at least $33 an hour — $68,640 a year — to be able to afford the average apartment in Los Angeles Read More

Stiff competition for an insufficient supply of houses prevented Max and Taryn McCann from buying a home in downtown Fullerton last year. … 

“No rent for rats,” participants chanted at last month’s meeting of the North Bay Organizing Project. …

In Los Angeles it’s not out of the norm to hear someone complain about how they would rather live without a roommate if … 

Mayor Ed Lee‘s housing working group is close to a deal on several policy changes that backers hope will boost the number of … 

Heather Higley’s face darkened with sadness as she moved out of her low-rent apartment in an upscale complex in Simi Valley on a recent Read More

Mayor Ed Lee‘s housing working group is close to a deal on several policy changes that backers hope will boost the number of … 

The 160 units at Santa Monica, California’s Belmar Apartments received 4,600 applications ahead of the project’s July opening…

This was the state that embodied the middle-class American dream: Move west, acquire a small slice of property, perhaps with a palm tree … 

SAN MATEO — Araselis Marte and her two daughters have lived in their small two-bedroom apartment on Grant Street for nine years. But now Read More

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has called for the creation or rehabbing of 30,000 housing units in the next six years …

San Francisco may be a leader in California when it comes to building below-market-rate housing, but it is not measuring up …

JOSÉ MARROQUÍN lives with his mother, wife and four children in a tiny apartment in a rough part of town. It costs …

Orange County workers’ household incomes slipped over a dozen years, when adjusted for inflation, while rents shot up … 

Amid rising rents and declines in funding, San Francisco has an affordable housing shortfall of more than 40,800 units … 

The transportation sector is responsible for the largest greenhouse gas emissions in our state, nearly 40 percent. But unlike other sectors … 

When you’re looking for a place to live, one number rules your world: You should spend no more than 30 percent of your income Read More

Summer’s traditionally when moving vans clog the streets as people try to get settled in new homes and apartments before the school year starts… 

Many U.S. cities have glaring economic divides that present geographically, but in Sacramento, this inequality is characterized by two downtowns. … 

California will devote billions of dollars in new cap-and-trade revenue to fund projects intended to further curb climate impacts. … 

For years California’s housing market has been one of the most expensive in the country, and the economic downturn made houses even less affordable Read More

A new report by two nonprofit groups indicates Sacramento County’s affordable housing supply has a considerable gap, and tools to close it are harder Read More

Los Angeles County has the largest shortfall of homes affordable to low-income families in California,” begins a new report by the California Housing Partnership Read More

Los Angeles County’s stock of affordable housing for low- and extremely low-income families is short by nearly 500,000 homes, the highest shortfall of any Read More

Los Angeles County’s stock of affordable housing for low- and extremely low-income families is short by nearly 500,000 homes, the highest shortfall of any Read More

California’s housing market has long been among the most expensive in the country, and the economic downturn has only made the situation worse. That’s Read More

Los Angeles County is facing the largest shortfall of affordable housing in California – 490,340 homes – according to a new report from the Read More

California’s Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley and home to two of the three most valuable companies in the world, has a Read More

Advocates for low-income Californians called Wednesday for more homes with below-market rents, releasing a report that says Los Angeles County faces the greatest shortage Read More

The California Housing Partnership Corporation has released a new report that ranks Orange County among the most difficult markets for low-income renters due to Read More

A bill to provide for a renters’ rebate for low-income California tenants passed a key committee earlier today. Co-sponsored by Tenants Together, the bill Read More

The California Transportation Choices Summit, held in Sacramento this week, was an opportunity for sustainable transportation and public health advocates to spend the day Read More

Most Californians can’t afford their rent. The state’s affordability crisis has worsened since the recession, as soaring home prices and rents outpace job and Read More

Apartment buildings are home to more than 17 million households nationwide, yet they remain a significant and mostly untapped opportunity for energy efficiency gains. Read More

Dozens of people shared only three showers in the building that Patricia McDowell called home for the last 2 1/2 years. Roaches skittered across Read More

SAN JOSE — Sharon McKain learned in February that she had three months to move out. Her landlord was no longer renting to Section Read More

A new study from the California Housing Partnership Corp. attributes rising cost of rent and decreasing government aid for a lack of affordable housing Read More

FEBRUARY 11, 2014 | SACRAMENTO, CA – Today the California Housing Partnership Corporation released a report that shows California’s private housing market is not Read More

Renters across the nation, and in particular in California, are locked in a pernicious squeeze of rising rents and stagnant incomes that has diverted Read More

A combination of rising rents and falling government aid for affordable housing has dealt a blow to California’s lower-income residents, according to a new Read More

Sacramento – Leaders of the Sustainable Communities for All Coalition offered praise for the Governor’s efforts to invest $850 million of cap-and-trade auction proceeds Read More

JOSHUA TREE — Until Friday, Jim McCubbin didn’t know how he would fare living in the back of his pickup truck with a camper Read More

Is there a good reason for affordable housing practitioners to start paying attention to utility company-sponsored green retrofit programs? Ask an industry insider and Read More