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 neighborhoods. These changes to the State’s affordable housing funding programs 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 $100 million GO bond measure approved under the provisions of Read More


Unsubsidized Affordable Homes At-Risk | 2024 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 2024 report include:    Already Lost 163,000+ homes are no longer affordable, largely concentrated in Southern California, the Bay Area, and Sacramento and Fresno counties Read More


Affordable Homes At-Risk | 2024 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 | 2024 Report released April 5 by the California Housing Partnership:   19,249 subsidized affordable rental homes have already been lost through conversion to market rate housing and Read More


California Affordable Housing Needs Report 2024

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 12% of what it needs to meet its Read More


Los Angeles County Annual Affordable Housing Outcomes Report 2023

This LA County report is divided into 6 sections: 1) Affordable Housing Need, 2) Affordable Rental Housing Inventory and Risk Assessment, 3) County-Administered Affordable Rental Housing Resources, 4) Neighborhood Context for Creating and Preserving Affordable Homes, 5) Affordable Housing Development Cost Analysis and 6) Recommendations.