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