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1Audit Finds That Los Angeles’s Top Homeless Outreach Agency Has Deep Operational Failures

Audit Finds That Los Angeles’s Top Homeless Outreach Agency Has Deep Operational Failures

Oct 15, 2019

According to an audit released in August, the homeless outreach agency tasked with moving people from the streets into housing, shelters or treatment for mental illness and substance abuse has severely failed to meet the goals of its contract with the city of Los Angeles. The audit states that the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority […]

2Salvation Army’s San Jose Affordable Homes Development gets Boost from Google Donations

Salvation Army’s San Jose Affordable Homes Development gets Boost from Google Donations

Oct 10, 2019

In August, it was announced that Google was giving the Salvation Army $1.5 million to support its efforts to develop hundreds of affordable homes in San Jose. This is actually the first donation from the $50 million that Google.org committed in June to help nonprofits that are trying to tackle homelessness and displacement in the […]

3Freight Containers will be Re-Purposed for Homeless Shelter in Orange County City

Freight Containers will be Re-Purposed for Homeless Shelter in Orange County City

Jun 11, 2019

homeless. The city of Buena Park has decided to re-purpose freight containers to use them as homeless shelters, rather than turning warehouses into shelters like other cities are doing. The city hired Crate Modular, a company that specializes in container conversions, to build a facility for about 150 people and Griffin Structures to manage the […]

4Proposed State Legislative Bill Would Boost Apartment Complexes Near Transit

Proposed State Legislative Bill Would Boost Apartment Complexes Near Transit

Jan 8, 2019

State Senator Scott Wiener revived a major effort to boost homebuilding near transit last month. Senator Wiener believes Senate Bill 50 (SB 50) is necessary to address the state’s housing affordability and climate change challenges that have increased since a similar bill he proposed earlier this year failed.  Under SB 50, developers would be allowed […]

5Californians are leaving coastal cities and moving inland

Californians are leaving coastal cities and moving inland

Mar 8, 2018

A surprising thing has been revealed by researchers regarding a trend in California migration. It turns out that the populations of inland counties are growing faster than that of urban coastal counties such as San Joaquin and Sacramento. Around 2014, Phuong Nguyen, who is a research specialist at the California Department of Finance, began noticing […]

6California Treasurer John Chiang has Helped Steer Millions in Tax Credits to his Developer Donors

California Treasurer John Chiang has Helped Steer Millions in Tax Credits to his Developer Donors

Oct 9, 2017

According to The Sacramento Bee, California Treasurer John Chiang has helped award tens of millions in tax credits and bonds over the last decade to a handful of affordable housing developers who contributed to his political campaigns. In August, The Sacramento Bee reviewed the projects done by housing developers and found that Chiang has accepted […]

7Even Mobile Homes are Getting too Expensive in Silicon Valley

Even Mobile Homes are Getting too Expensive in Silicon Valley

May 24, 2017

As Silicon Valley continues to thrive economically, its residents are starting to feel the pain of the rising amount of rent that they have to pay in order to remain in the area. Even mobile homes are starting to get too expensive for the residents and many of them happen to be older residents. One […]

8Many People in California Cannot Afford a Median-Priced Home

Many People in California Cannot Afford a Median-Priced Home

May 18, 2017

According to a report by the California Association of Realtors (CAR), which is based in Los Angeles, only 32 percent of California households could afford to buy a median-priced home in the first quarter of this year. The report has the median-price of a home at $496,620 and this is the 16th consecutive quarter that […]

9More People are Starting to move out of California

More People are Starting to move out of California

May 11, 2017

The trend of people moving out of California appears to have intensified over the last couple of years. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, domestic migrants are leaving California more quickly than they enter it. The good news is that the overall rate of people leaving is less than what it was in the early […]

10UCLA: California Housing Will Get Less Affordable

UCLA: California Housing Will Get Less Affordable

Sep 29, 2015

UCLA Anderson Forecast Senior Economist Jerry Nickelsburg wrote in his forecast that government agencies need to reconsider their policies surrounding affordable housing if they hope to make a dent in the problem. “The economics are clear,” he wrote. “When affordable housing is provided, say by requiring developers to have a fixed percentage of their new […]

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