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LA Daily News: In passing bill, California Legislature ignores housing problems
Read moreLegislators showed they’re not concerned about California’s well-documented housing crisis by passing a bill last week that extends wealthy Marin…
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National Alliance to End Homelessness: House Releases Draft HUD Spending Bill: What’s in it, and What it Means.
Read moreThis week the House Appropriations Committee released its draft spending bill for Fiscal Year 2018. As the appropriations process continues, details…
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SFGate: S.F. supervisors OK affordable housing laws
Read moreThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved two pieces of legislation intended to keep lower- and middle-class residents…
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Politico: Why Washington Can’t Fix the New Housing Crisis
Read moreDonald Trump campaigned on restoring the “American dream,” a 1931 metaphor for economic success that has become political shorthand for homeownership. But…
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LA Times: California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis. Here’s why they’ve failed
Read moreAfter an hour of debate, Herb Perez had had enough. Perez, a councilman in the Bay Area suburb of Foster…
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Message from the CEO
Read moreAs you know, BIA-LAV has been working with the community and public officials to let them know that LA’s proposed…
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Curbed: LA is the nation’s most unaffordable housing market—and prices will keep rising
Read moreHome prices in Los Angeles have never been higher, and rents are increasingly unaffordable for many residents. Sadly, a new…
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Huffington Post: The Hourly Income You Need To Afford Rent Around The U.S.
Read moreFull-time workers who make minimum wage can’t afford a two-bedroom rental home in any state in the U.S. without spending…
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LA Times: Amid housing crisis, Garcetti’s ‘linkage fee’ proposal remains in limbo
Read moreFollowing the lead of other California cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti two years ago proposed charging a fee on construction and…
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CityLab: Rent Is Affordable to Low-Wage Workers in Exactly 12 U.S. Counties
Read moreFor millions of Americans, housing costs are perversely mismatched to hourly wages. In 2017, the average U.S. worker would need…