When Toni Atkins, President Pro Tem of the California State Senate, sat down to talk with PPIC president Mark Baldassare last week, she brought along a list of pressing issues. Asked to name the top two issues facing the state, she led off with housing: “The growing crisis around the lack of housing supply for all levels of Californians is one of our most critical issues.” Next came climate change and its effects across California. And then she added a third issue: water sustainability. In reality, she said, “there is...
New data shows Santa Rosa received more applications to build “granny units” last year than it had in the entire preceding decade, evidence that the city’s efforts to spur housing just about any way it can is starting to yield results.
Newly elected state Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris said Monday she is trying to negotiate an end to a potentially costly legal battle in California’s housing lawsuit against Huntington Beach and said the city should get more time to comply with state requirements.
San Francisco is often unfairly parodied as a haven for NIMBYs– a place where everyone claims to want more affordable housing, just not in their own community. But, as I always tell visitors, the issue is more nuanced and the outcomes often more positive. There are more YIMBYs than NIMBYs...
Habitat For Humanity built a bedroom in front of the State Capitol Wednesday as they prepared to speak with legislators about affordable housing in the state.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that the state is taking first-of-its-kind legal action against a city for standing in the way of affordable housing production and refusing to meet regional housing needs — local actions that harm California families’ ability to find affordable places to live and drive up housing costs for everyone...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Jan. 23, 2019)—Habitat for Humanity California and local Habitat organizations representing cities and counties throughout the state met Wednesday in the capital city to rally support for affordable housing, adding their voices in strong support of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s housing agenda. Download the Full Release Download our letter to the Governor...
When families don’t have stable housing, their risk of struggling with poor health outcomes and material hardships, such as food insecurity, increases, according to a new study from Children’s HealthWatch. Researchers surveyed over 22,000 families and found that one third of low-income renters were housing unstable, which was associated with negative impacts on their health.
