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 tons of GHG emissions across California. The program invested $4 Read More
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 may no longer be affordable as soon as next year Read More
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 Area, and Sacramento and Fresno counties are no longer affordable. Read More
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 only funding 15% of what it needs to meet its Read More
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 tons of GHG emissions across California. The program invested $3.2 Read More
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 tons of GHG emissions across California. The program invested $2.5 Read More
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.
This report highlights work the organization has accomplished alongside its partners over the last 35 years with particular focus on progress made in the last five.
LIWP works to leverage incentive programs and deliver deeper savings for residents and property owner at St. Mary’s Gardens Apartments
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 neighborhoods. These changes to the State’s affordable housing funding programs Read More
