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Mercury: New, $1 billion program will bring rooftop solar to California renters
Read moreOver the next decade, roughly 150,000 low-income renters in California will see their apartment buildings outfitted with solar panels —…
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News Review: Good-governance gag order: Housing authority, Region Builders at loggerheads over ‘conflict of interest’ rule
Read moreThe local agency responsible for bringing more affordable housing to Sacramento is under fire from Region Builders, one of the most…
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LA Daily News: LA’s $100 million affordable-housing ‘linkage fee’ could pass City Council
Read moreA Los Angeles City Councilman who helped craft a proposed affordable housing linkage fee expressed confidence that the measure would…
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CityLab: Fire Damage to California’s Homes Isn’t as Random as It Seems
Read moreIn the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year, it can often seem that the way houses burn, or don’t,…
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MyNews LA: New homes cost more in LA with fees to help the homeless?
Read moreWill Los Angeles force developers to pay extra for new structures to raise millions to help the homeless? That’s what…
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SacBee: GOP tax bill would kill a California tool to build housing
Read moreWhile California’s housing crisis has been well documented, what isn’t as widely understood are the financing tools we use to…
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NPR: Homeless Population Rises, Driven By West Coast Affordable-Housing Crisis
Read moreHomelessness in the United States went up slightly this year for the first time since 2010. During a one-night count…
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New York Times: California Today: Neighborhoods That Grow Up, Not Out
Read moreIf California is going to solve its affordable housing problem, cities have to build up in single-family home neighborhoods. That…
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Affordable Housing Finance: LIHTCs Can Aid Recovery Efforts
Read moreIt’s been a rough year. In just the past few months, we witnessed a series of hurricanes blow apart Florida,…
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Salon: An affordable housing movement is rising from the wreckage of the foreclosure crisis
Read moreIn late September, activists staged actions in 45 cities to draw attention to predatory rent practices and vast cuts to…