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January 12, 2021
Late last week, Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget for California’s 2021-22 fiscal year. This proposal is the starting point for the work that the Legislature and Governor’s office now undertake together. Their revised budget will be released in May, and voted on by June 15. What’s in the Governor’s Proposal? The Governor’s proposal makes clear that the Newsom administration remains committed to housing and homelessness as one of the most critical issues facing Californians. Key elements included in…
January 14, 2021
Assembly Bill 71 was amended on January 12 to replace its intent language with dozens of pages of substantive amendments, including several major tax increase proposals. This article only examines the tax provisions of AB 71. The bill is jointly authored by Assembly Members Luz Rivas, Richard Bloom, David Chiu, and Buffy Wicks. AB 71 will require a 2/3 vote for passage in both houses of the Legislature. According to the bill’s author, “AB 71 will generate $2.4 billion annually by closing corporate tax loopholes…
January 22, 2021
A top priority in the first 100 days of the Biden administration will be a housing plan. If Congress approves the current proposal, one in every five Californians could receive rental assistance from the federal government. “This is a day for housing justice, this is a day for health justice, this is a day for racial justice, this is a day for economic justice,” Amie Fishman, Executive Director for The Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California said. Read more via…
February 3, 2021
It has been nearly a year since the city began working on a much-needed psychiatric respite center for the city’s homeless and mentally ill — but the sprawling, yellow building in the Mission slated for the project is still vacant. The city announced the new Hummingbird Place respite center last February and hailed it as a small but important step toward helping the city’s most vulnerable. But the hurdles faced in opening the 30-bed site underscore just how long it takes San…
March 10, 2021
Last night, Governor Gavin Newsom delivered his State of the State address, highlighting the state’s recent progress in addressing the ongoing needs of state residents as we continue to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we reflect on the Governor’s address, a key takeaway for NPH is that housing is one of the most critical tools to protect our communities from COVID-19 and is the foundation out of which our region and state can grow and succeed. As California continues…
March 18, 2021
(San Francisco Bay Area) A new report released today from the National Low Income Housing Coalition discusses the severe shortage of homes affordable to low-income households across the nation, highlighting a systemic national shortage of rental housing for extremely low-income households. The report also points to the racial disparities that exist among extremely low-income renters, a remnant of centuries of anti-black discrimination and other inequities that our Back and Brown neighbors continue to contend with today. “Housing is the foundation…
March 22, 2021
Affordable housing has been a crisis in California, but a new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition on Thursday found that the problem is nationwide with a shortage of 6.8 million rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income renters, whose household incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30 percent of their area median income. The report highlights an across-the-nation, systemic shortage of rental housing for extremely low-income households. The report also points to the…
March 25, 2021
To stay on top of all of our legislative updates, sign up for The Policy Pipeline newsletter today! Coming down the pipeline in this month’s edition: On the Federal Level: The American Rescue Plan Passes On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan relief package, which contains $1.9 trillion in economic stimulus. The core housing components include: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cripple our state, drive unemployment, and push renters closer to the brink of homelessness,…
April 13, 2021
Don Falk, the longtime leader of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. (TNDC), has announced that he will be retiring from the organization. “The change is good for TNDC, and the change is good for me,” says Falk, who has been instrumental as the small grassroots organization has grown into a national leader in providing supportive housing. During his tenure, TNDC has grown from owning fewer than 500 homes to more than 4,000 units, housing nearly 6,000 people, with another 1,000 units in…
April 29, 2021
After excluding the Bay Area’s largest cities from a key pot of affordable housing funding — prompting a major backlash from local officials — the state is changing its rules. The mayors of Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco had sounded the alarm after no projects in their cities received funding from a little-known committee that plays a key role in housing finance in California. On Wednesday, the committee agreed to change how it allocates future financing. But local experts worry it’s…
April 30, 2021
To stay on top of all of our legislative updates, sign up for The Policy Pipeline newsletter today! Coming down the pipeline in this month’s edition: Legislation for Homelessness and Housing Moves Ahead! We are thrilled to share that two of NPH’s policy priorities have recently advanced: As always, NPH needs your help moving these critical housing policies forward in California. Endorse our priority legislation now! Your endorsement of NPH’s priority bills helps us make the case for more affordable…
May 6, 2021
May 6, 2021 (San Francisco Bay Area) – In anticipation of the release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revision to the 2021-22 state budget proposal, and as affordable housing advocates and supporters across the Bay Area kickoff Affordable Housing Month, a new set of reports from California Housing Partnership provides a glimpse into the reality of people living and working severely housing cost-burdened in the Bay Area. The new data show that a significant majority of the Bay Area’s extremely…