Weekly Update for December 1, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: State Update: Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced a wave of leadership changes in the Assembly just before Thanksgiving, elevating affordable housing champions to several key positions: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), author of ACA 1, was named Majority Leader, Asm. Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), the former housing committee chair, was tapped to lead the Appropriations […]
Weekly Update for November 17, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: ICYMI – Top news stories: Editorial: L.A.’s ‘mansion tax’ is a lifeline to ease homelessness, but it remains in limboLos Angeles TimesIf any city needs a financial lifeline to help homeless people get permanent housing and prevent people from losing their housing, it is Los Angeles—where 36% of renter households pay […]
Federal Update for November 2023 from David Gasson
What a difference a month makes. Since my last update, Speaker McCarthy advanced a standalone continuing resolution (CR) through November 17th, which led to a motion to vacate the chair, which resulted in McCarthy becoming the former Speaker. Three tumultuous weeks later the House finally elected relative newcomer Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Speaker of the […]
Industry Insight — November 2023
This month’s edition of Industry Insight includes:
-A Note from our Executive Director Ray Pearl
-ICYMI
-AH News of the Month
-Federal Update from David Gasson
-Member Spotlight
Weekly Update for October 27, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: State Update: HCD accused the City of San Francisco of maintaining “egregious” barriers to housing production that are adding at least 10 months to the city’s construction timelines over the next slowest jurisdiction, according to a scathing, first-of-its-kind report released by the state housing department this week. “It is egregious, […]
Weekly Update for October 20, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: State Update: “Could 2023 be the sleeper year for solving California’s housing crisis?” That was how a Los Angeles Times editorial this week summed up this year’s legislative session on affordable housing, noting the passage of all of CHC’s sponsored bills along with dozens of other policy changes that “are expected […]
Weekly Update for October 13, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: State Update: Governor Newsom signed a package of 50-plus housing bills this week, including all of the CHC-sponsored legislation on his desk: SB 423 (Wiener) extending SB 35 streamlining for another decade; SB 439 (Skinner) allowing courts to throw out frivolous lawsuits brought against affordable housing projects; and AB 1449 (Alvarez) extending new CEQA exemptions to 100% […]
Federal Update for October 2023 from David Gasson
As I write this update, the final days of the 2023 fiscal year are passing and there is no sign of a federal budget on the horizon. As I predicted at the beginning of the year, both before and after the marathon voting for Speaker of the House in January, the disfunction that defines the […]
Industry Insight — October 2023
This month’s edition of Industry Insight includes:
-A Note from our Executive Director Ray Pearl
-Legislative Roundup
-ICYMI
-AH News of the Month
-Federal Update from David Gasson
-Member Spotlight
Weekly Update for September 22, 2023
This week in affordable housing news…: State Update: The Legislature quietly approved a wave of affordable housing legislation this year—including several bills sponsored by CHC—that could represent a “sea change” in California’s response to the housing crisis, according to a story in CalMatters. “You may not have seen the headlines (there weren’t any). You may have missed […]