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March 11, 2024
Marin residents want more affordable housing. The county’s 2023 community survey confirmed that housing is our top issue. While longtime community resistance to housing in Marin is well-known, it is slowly changing.
April 10, 2024
Nearly a year ago, State Farm stopped issuing new insurance policies for homes and businesses in California, accelerating a tsunami of major insurance company departures. At the time, the most obvious impacts of these withdrawals were on single-family homeowners. But the repercussions have extended much further. Without progress toward stabilizing the insurance industry in California, housing for lower-income renters is in urgent jeopardy as well. The consequences for nonprofits and other smaller landlords that provide affordable housing in the form…
April 10, 2024
Amie Fishman has dedicated her entire career toward affordable housing. She has led NPH since 2015, spearheading its expansion into innovative electoral strategies, public campaigns and industry-strengthening initiatives.
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.
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.
February 19, 2025
Two California lawmakers have brought back a proposal to place a $10 billion bond for affordable housing programs on the June 2026 ballot, after the measure failed to make it on the ballot last November. The cash injection would make a dramatic difference for low-income households living in the Golden State, which is currently one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation. East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and State Senator Christopher Cabaldon, who represent Yolo, Solano, Napa and parts of…
May 20, 2025
On May 14, Governor Newsom released his May Revise to the 2025-26 state budget, announcing a $12B deficit and offering a dire updated proposal with no funding for the major state housing programs.
June 5, 2025
A controversial bill that would allow more apartments near public transit stations throughout California narrowly squeaked through the state Senate on Tuesday. The bill, SB 79, needed 21 “yes” votes to pass, and it had none to spare, with senators voting 21–13 to advance it to the Assembly. Authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, SB 79 would enable the construction of buildings between four and nine stories tall near certain high-frequency bus stations, train and ferry stops. Wiener said the goals of…