California YIMBY Aims to Make it Legal to Build More Homes
While tens of thousands of Californians live in subsidized affordable housing, there is not nearly enough to satisfy demand.
While tens of thousands of Californians live in subsidized affordable housing, there is not nearly enough to satisfy demand.
The Community Housing Working Group hosted a briefing on April 23 at Cafeteria 15L in Sacramento. Discussions focused on how the housing crisis in California affects Black and Brown communities and explored ways to provide low-income families and individuals with affordable housing.
Yvonne Wheeler, the first Black woman president of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, will be honored by Bakewell Media and the L.A. Sentinel at the “Power, Leadership and Influence of the Black Woman” event on Saturday, April 1.3
On Saturday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the state is suing five of the world’s largest oil companies and their subsidiaries
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an updated declaration of a state of emergency on homelessness on Monday, July 10, to further expedite affordable housing and bring unhoused Angelenos inside.
On April 25, the City of Inglewood welcomed Beach Terrace, a brand new 42-unit affordable housing building on Beach Ave in Inglewood. Thomas Safran and Associates, lead developer in affordable housing hosted an open house for community members to view the new building.
Saki Middleton, president of John Stanley, a real estate development, and investment management company, named the business in honor of his father, who sadly passed away while Middleton was in still in college.
Casa de Rosas, the expansive, new housing community led by Ward Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), held its third open house for Los Angeles veterans seeking long-term affordable housing on Thursday, July 21 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Located at 2600 Hoover Street, the 36-unit property is tucked between the Adams-Normandie and Historic South Central neighborhoods, just down the street from USC and Exposition Park.
The City of Pasadena and BRIDGE Housing celebrated the groundbreaking of Heritage Square South at N. Fair Oaks Avenue near Orange Grove Boulevard on July 6.
The latest polls show Congresswoman Karen Bass as the leading candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, yet some people still wonder who is supporting her. Based on the audience at her July 5 press conference, her backers are a large and powerful diverse coalition.
While the severe lack of affordable and accessible housing has hurt Californians across the board, communities of color have been the most impacted. Black and Latino households are rent burdened at much higher rates than white households, and own their homes at more than 20% lower rates than Whites. In many cases, the systemic racial inequities that have contributed to these trends– including historic housing and banking discrimination, and pay inequality–have also prevented diverse business owners from being able to secure construction, design, engineering and other contracts to build affordable housing. Even as California deploys an unprecedented amount of money into housing development to
Despite unprecedented federal housing assistance during the pandemic, a report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) finds stark racial and income divides in its analysis of the nation’s rental market. Nearly a quarter of Black renters were behind on rent in the third quarter of 2021, as well as 19% of Hispanic renters. By contrast, the share of white renters in arrears was half that: 9%.
Millions of California homeowners face foreclosure, eviction, and never being able to afford to buy their own home.
Ground was officially broken today on an affordable- housing apartment complex in Long Beach’s Cambodia Town neighborhood.
Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins and newly appointed Metro Chair Supervisor Hilda Solis outline the vision of Metro in the annual State of the Agency Address. Solis and Wiggins will be the first combination of women, as chair and CEO to concurrently serve at Metro in its 28-year history.