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April 25, 2024
Two of the three projects are being developed on church-owned land and could be taking advantage of new state legislation that streamlines affordable development on such properties.
May 9, 2024
A new report from the affordable housing financing group Enterprise Community Partners and the Bay Area Housing Financing Authority, known as BAHFA, found that there are 443 projects totaling 40,896 units that are somewhere in the process of being approved or financed.
May 15, 2024
Governor Newsom has released his May Revise to the 2024-25 state budget proposal, which shows a growing state deficit and some cuts to affordable housing programs.
June 25, 2024
This November, Bay Area voters could decide on an unprecedented bond measure to raise up to $20 billion for as many as 90,000 desperately needed affordable homes across the nine-county region.
June 25, 2024
The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, a regional government agency tasked with addressing the Bay Area’s housing crisis, will vote whether or not to put the proposed measure on the November ballot at a meeting June 26.
June 27, 2024
Bay Area voters will be asked to decide on a $20 billion affordable housing bond in November after the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) voted unanimously Wednesday to place it on the ballot.
July 11, 2024
Eight years ago, Santa Clara County had less than 300 affordable apartments that served homeless individuals with disabilities. Thousands of homes have been built since then due to an affordable housing bond measure.
August 26, 2024
The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) recently made the difficult decision to remove RM4 from the November 2024 ballot. Our coalition recommended this decision based on a series of serious and unfortunately-timed challenges lodged by a small group of anti-housing and anti-government extremists. These opponents exploited the court systems and electoral timeline in an attempt to block progress on our state and regional affordable housing agenda. These actions resulted in a painful delay to our progress – but delays…
September 4, 2024
After several years of blockbuster housing bills passing through the California Legislature, this past session was lackluster by comparison, some housing advocates said. But activists are still holding out hope that a statewide proposition — set to appear in November — could turn things around. Proposition 5 (PDF) would make it easier for local governments to pass bonds to fund affordable housing and public infrastructure projects by lowering the voter threshold from a two-thirds supermajority to 55%. “Prop 5 is a critical step to empowering local communities to…
September 30, 2024
Proposition 5 on the November ballot asks voters to lower that threshold to 55%, which would make it easier to fund and build many much-needed infrastructure projects around the Bay Area and the state.
September 30, 2024
After several years of blockbuster housing bills passing through the California Legislature, this past session was lackluster by comparison, some housing advocates said.
October 10, 2024
Before Gavin Newsom became governor of California, he campaigned on a promise to make surplus state-owned land available for affordable housing. Shortly after he entered office, he made good on that promise, issuing an executive order that directed state agencies to assess more than 44,000 parcels to determine their suitability for development. “We have to use every tool in our toolbox to deliver more affordable housing for low-income and middle-class Californians,” he said in 2019 when he announced the first…