Read the full article … “A South Berkeley credit union is saying goodbye to its longtime home near Ashby BART to make way for a 100% affordable housing project that includes units for tenants who were formerly homeless.” … Read…
Nearly Half Of LA County’s Homeless Population Recently Worked, Study Finds
Read the full article … “The report found that 74% of people experiencing homelessness previously worked in California. Nearly 47% were found to have worked within four years of becoming homeless. 19% worked in the calendar quarter they became homeless.”…
California faces exoduses as housing crisis grows
Read the full article … “California’s housing crisis, according to a recent Public Policy Institute of California Poll, is the state’s most important issue to voters, and it’s also changing the nation’s political landscape.” … Read the full article
New legislation would slash impact fees for some California housing
Read the full article here … “Gov. Gavin Newsom has vowed to come up with a plan to boost homebuilding this year. “The status quo is simply unacceptable — we aren’t building enough housing,” he said during his State of…
Gov. Newsom to make 286 state properties available for homeless solutions
Read the full article … “Newsom called it “a disgrace, that the richest state in the richest nation … is falling so far behind to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people.” … Read the…
Gov. Gavin Newsom makes a big political wager
Read the full article … “Turning to the larger housing shortage, Newsom told legislators, “When we don’t build housing for people at all income levels, as a consequence we worsen the homeless crisis.” … Read the full article
Teachers notice rise in homelessness among kids
Read the full article … “Nationwide, public schools identified 1.5 million children experiencing homelessness in the 2017-2018 school year, an increase of 11% from the previous school year, according to a report released in January by the National Center for…
California YIMBY group files complaint against AIDS Healthcare Foundation over housing bill spending
Read the full article … “California YIMBY announced Friday it had filed a formal complaint with the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission alleging the foundation, run by the controversial and longtime activist Michael Weinstein, ignored requirements that it report spending…”…
How to Make a Housing Crisis
Read the full article … “The YIMBY movement and all the problems they were encountering—that complexity is the issue. That’s the story.” … Read the full article
LA’s high housing costs pose ‘grave concern’ to economy
Read the full article here … “Having more people in your community is only a positive thing—more places to do things, more people to meet, restaurants to go to and such,” he says. “I also think there’s a sort of…