Industry Insight for April 2024
This month’s edition of Industry Insight includes:
-A Note from our Executive Director Ray Pearl
-2024 Policy Forum
-ICYMI
-AH News of the Month
-Federal Update from David Gasson
-Member Spotlight
Industry Insight – March 2024
This month’s edition of Industry Insight includes:
-A Note from our Executive Director Ray Pearl
-2024 Policy Forum
-ICYMI
-AH News of the Month
-2024 Merritt Scholars Program
-Federal Update from David Gasson
Industry Insight – September 2020
This month’s edition of Industry Insight includes:
-A Note from our Executive Director Ray Pearl
-In Case You Missed it
-In Memoriam
-Affordable Housing in the News
-CHC Supporter Spotlight
Note from the Executive Director – May 2020
There is no doubt that we are all in this together. At all levels of government, elected officials have quickly responded to the threat posed by COVID-19. In spite of that unprecedented and collaborative response, new research from the Terner Center shows the dramatic impact the crisis is having on California: 2.3 million renter households […]
Note from the Executive Director – April 2020
The last few weeks have been unlike any others in our lifetimes and we are all struggling to find our new normal both at work and at home. CHC and our members are finding new ways to work through the daily challenges posed by COVID-19. Through all of these recent changes, we remain committed to […]
Note from the Executive Director – February 2020
“It’s time for California to say yes to housing. We cannot wait,” Governor Newsom said in his State of the State address last week devoted almost exclusively to California’s twin challenges of affordable housing and homelessness. With more than 150,000 people now living on the streets—and millions more unable to afford a place to live—the […]
Note from the Executive Director – January 2020
An unprecedented crisis calls for an unprecedented response. With Sacramento back in full swing this month—including a new budget proposal from the Governor, new financing decisions by CDLAC, and a wave of new legislation emerging from the Capitol—this has been our message for state leaders still wrestling with California’s response to the ongoing affordable housing […]
Note from the Executive Director – December 2019
It’s December in Sacramento, the start of the holidays—and the unofficial beginning of budget season, when the administration puts the finishing touches on its January budget proposal. CHC has joined with our partners in a letter outlining the steps that must be taken to ensure next year’s budget continues to close the state’s shortfall of […]
Note from the Executive Director – October 2019
With the legislative session behind us, we are starting to prepare for the year ahead of us—this includes a series of CHC policy committee meetings around the state and a new opportunity to collaborate closely with the Treasurer on upcoming reforms to the state tax credit system. Before we get there, we’re mindful of one […]
Note from the Executive Director – End of Session 2019
The Legislature wrapped up the first year of the session early Saturday morning, and I’m pleased to report several major CHC-sponsored bills have now made their way to the governor’s desk—including bills that will dramatically boost the number of affordable homes that can be built each year, significantly reduce the cost of affordable development, and […]