New website offers tools to solve housing crisis and #BringCAHome
With so many news headlines about skyrocketing rents, the housing crisis has become a well-known hazard to life in California, like earthquakes or wildfires. But when you consider that 1 in 3 families are barely making their rent each month and our economy is suffering under the burden of the super-inflated rental markets, the severe housing shortfall is a crisis California leaders can no longer afford to ignore.
Assembly Committee Moves to Fix Backwards Housing Policy with AB 71 Vote
Sacramento, CA – The California Housing Consortium applauds the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee’s approval today of AB 71 (Chiu). The bill advanced through the committee after a vote of 5-2. The Bring California Home Act is crucial for California to invest in alleviating a housing affordability crisis that drives jobs out of state and […]
OP-ED: California’s Affordable Housing Crisis Must Be Addressed
California leaders have pledged to protect our state’s prized values of inclusion, equity and opportunity as the nation ushers in a new political era. There is nothing that embodies these principles more than ensuring that all Californians have a safe place to live.
Rapid response to Jerry Brown’s budget plan tries to sway final deal
Ray Pearl, executive director of the California Housing Consortium, which advocates for affordable homes: “California leaders have made a commitment to defend our state’s ideals of inclusion and opportunity, yet the budget released today allows an unprecedented housing crisis to continue taking a human and economic toll that undermines these values. “Despite the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development acknowledging that too little housing investment impedes economic growth, today’s budget offers no new investment to jump-start affordable home construction and improve our worst-in-the-nation poverty ranking.”
Video: CHC Policy Director Marina Wiant’s comments on CA poverty rate aired across the State
CHC Policy Director Marina Wiant’s comments explore the newest set of data from the Census Bureau’s supplementary poverty measure – which takes into account housing costs. When housing costs are accounted for, California’s poverty rate surges from 15 to 20% – the highest in the nation. Her comments were aired across the state from Los Angeles to Sacramento & Monterey to Fresno. Here is a snippet of her remarks shown on NBC 24 (Fresno)
VIDEO: CHC’s Policy Director Marina Wiant on KCRA
Check out CHC’s Policy Director Marina Wiant on KCRA discussing the $1.3 billion housing proposal made by more than a dozen members of the Democratic Assembly Caucus on Monday April 25, 2016.