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SF Examiner: Eye on the State: Leaders must find political will to fund housing, fight displacement
Read moreState leaders have finally woken up to the affordable housing crisis raging throughout California. A slew of housing bills were…
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US News: California Lawmakers Consider Spending Billions to Fix Housing
Read moreAffordable housing advocates are closely watching a package of bills currently under consideration by California lawmakers that would invest billions…
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LA Times: Why the Legislature probably can’t fix California’s affordable housing problem
Read moreState lawmakers can pass all kinds of bills aimed at building more affordable housing. But they can’t repeal the fundamental…
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Affordable Housing Finance: Mercy Housing Closes First Deal With California Certificated Credits
Read moreMercy Housing California has closed a deal to use “certificated” state housing credits on its latest affordable housing development. The…
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SacBee: One key to affordable housing crisis? Pay construction workers a living wage.
Read moreNo amount of project streamlining can solve California’s housing affordability problem by itself. To lower prices, California needs to build a…
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LAist: Op-Ed: California Must Pass Housing Legislation To Give Our Generation A Chance
Read moreLos Angeles County has one of the tightest housing markets in the country, and by some measures, the most inequitable. Economic…
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Vox: The real driver of regional inequality in America
Read moreAmerica in the Gilded Age was a starkly unequal place, not just in terms of inequality between people but inequality…
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LA Times: Billions in new spending for housing, water, parks and more could be on the 2018 ballot
Read moreCalifornians could vote on billions of dollars in new spending for low-income housing developments and water and parks improvements next…
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CityLab: Severe Housing Needs May Return to Foreclosure-Crisis Levels
Read moreA new report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this month shows that the number of…
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Reason: Affordable Housing Regulations Crushing New Home Construction in L.A.
Read moreWhen Los Angeles voters were considering Proposition JJJ—an initiative last year to mandate affordable housing requirements for new developments—critics from Habitat…