OP-ED: State legislature must pass AB 71 to address affordable housing crisis
UCLA alumni, CHC Executive Director Ray Pearl with CHC Policy Director Marina Wiant co-authored an op-ed that ran in today’s Daily Bruin. It calls on the state’s legislators to match the ingenuity of UCLA students by doing their part and investing in affordable housing.
Governor’s Revised Budget Proposal Ignores State’s Housing Crisis
Sacramento, CA – The California Housing Consortium released the following statement from Executive Director Ray Pearl on Governor Jerry Brown’s revised budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2017-2018: “California has made a bold commitment to protect the health and well-being of our residents from federal action that undermines these priorities, so it is deeply disappointing to […]
CA Housing Organizations Send Letter to Leadership on Components of Package to Ensure an Adequate Supply of Affordable Housing
If there is any “good news” in California’s housing crisis, it is that a problem largely created by state policies also can be solved through state action. With precious few weeks left to adopt a state budget and the legislative year quickly coming to a close, millions of California families who are struggling to pay their rent and more than 130,000 people who are homeless are counting on you to act boldly to drastically increase the supply of affordable homes.
CHC Joins Speaker Rendon & Asm. David Chiu to Highlight Assembly’s Need to Confront CA Housing Crisis
Asm. David Chiu (D-San Francisco) to build legislative momentum for a package of bills to alleviate the housing crisis that is driving Californians into poverty and sending jobs out of state. A recent California Department of Housing and Community Development report points out that insufficient state investment in affordable homes impedes California’s economic growth.
Federal Housing Policy Outlook – 2017 & Beyond: Event Recap
Since the ’16 election in November, many have been considering what a Trump Administration might mean for housing policy and practice in the next four years. Last Tuesday, California Housing Consortium and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation welcomed over 100 people to Oakland to explore this question in a panel discussion titled, Federal Policy […]
Note from the Executive Director – April 2017
Almost every day, someone asks me if it is possible for Sacramento leaders to get anything done on California’s housing crisis? Is the problem just too big? Earlier this month, Governor Brown and legislative leaders began to answer those questions when they came together on a multi-billion-dollar transportation investment plan that required a two-thirds vote. […]
CHC co-sponsored AB 1505 (Bloom) passes through first committee
CHC co-sponsored AB 1505 (Bloom), which authorizes jurisdictions to adopt inclusionary zoning ordinances, passed its first hurdle after it was approved, Wednesday 4/5, by the Assembly Committee on Local Government with a vote of 6-3 along partisan lines. The bill now moves on to the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development.
Note from the Executive Director – March 2017
This month, President Trump released a “budget blueprint” that calls for more than $6 billion in cuts to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs – a massive rollback of federal investment in home affordability. If it feels like we’ve been here before, consider that 20 years ago, the affordable housing community and the people and […]
Federal Update from David Gasson – March 2017
As CHC members who recently visited Washington, DC can tell you, the atmosphere on Capitol Hill is frenetic. What was supposed to be an orderly process to address the key campaign promises made by President Trump and congressional Republicans has not so subtly come off the rails. With the turmoil surrounding repealing and replacing the […]
Key Measure (SB2) Clears Second Hurdle in Senate
Sacramento, CA – Today’s approval today of SB 2 by the Senate Governance and Finance Committee signifies an important step to beginning to address California’s devastating housing shortage. The Senate Transportation and Housing committee approved the measure last month. “SB 2 is an important measure to begin to right the ship in California after years […]