California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Impact Report: Rounds 1 – 8

The California Housing Partnership (the Partnership) has released a new policy brief co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners documenting the substantial community and economic benefits made possible by the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. According to the report, the AHSC program has already brought about 20,361 new affordable homes and reduced 5.7 million metric Read More


Affordable Homes At-Risk | 2025 Report

California’s affordable housing crisis will only worsen if nothing more is done to protect the thousands of subsidized affordable rental homes at risk of market rate conversion. According to the Affordable Homes At Risk | 2025 Report released April 9 by the California Housing Partnership:   6,800 subsidized affordable rental homes Read More


Unsubsidized Affordable Homes At-Risk | 2025 Report

Using a proprietary methodology, the California Housing Partnership identified unsubsidized naturally-occurring affordable housing (NOAH) properties that due to their age, location and other market factors, offer rents affordable to low-income households. Notable findings in this 2025 report include:    Rents charged for 189,000+ homes  concentrated in Southern California, the Bay Read More


California Affordable Housing Needs Report 2025

The California Housing Partnership annually assesses the needs of California’s low-income renters for the purpose of informing state and local policy leaders. Key findings from this year’s California Affordable Housing Needs Report: Although California has more than doubled production of new affordable homes in the past five years, the State is Read More


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California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Impact Report: Rounds 1 – 7

The California Housing Partnership (the Partnership) has released a new policy brief co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners documenting the substantial community and economic benefits made possible by the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. According to the report, the AHSC program has already brought about 17,878 new affordable homes and reduced 5.2 million metric Read More


AHSC 2022 Report Rounds 1-6

California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program: Six Years of Investments | Impact Report: Rounds 1 – 6

The California Housing Partnership (the Partnership) has released a new policy brief co-authored with Enterprise Community Partners documenting the substantial community and economic benefits made possible by the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. According to the report, the AHSC program has already brought about 15,324 new affordable homes and reduced 4.4 million metric Read More


Low-Income Weatherization Program Multifamily: Impact Report 2025

Updated in 2025 and published in collaboration with the Association for Energy Affordability, this Impact Report presents the latest findings on the climate and community benefits delivered by the Cap-and-Trade-funded Low-Income Weatherization Program (LIWP) Multifamily since its launch in 2016. 


How Are CA’s Funding Programs Progressing on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing?

Between 2019 and 2021, the State of California adopted new policies to encourage production of family-serving affordable housing in “high-opportunity” neighborhoods with characteristics linked to upward mobility, college attendance, and other positive long-term outcomes for children. Historically, only a small share of family-serving affordable housing had been developed in these Read More


Analysis of Potential Economic Impacts from Proposition 5

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 the two-thirds voter approval requirement to 55 percent. Economic & Planning Systems (EPS) quantified the net economic gains arising from a hypothetical Read More


Low-Income Weatherization Program Multifamily: Impact Report 2024

Updated in 2024 and published in collaboration with the Association for Energy Affordability, this Impact Report presents the latest findings on the climate and community benefits delivered by the Cap-and-Trade-funded Low-Income Weatherization Program (LIWP) Multifamily since its launch in 2016.