Housing NOW!

Housing NOW! has been a member of Linktree for 1 year and joined in October 2024. Resources housingnowca has populated their site with include: • Unsupported Housing: When Stability Isn’t Enough — Shelterforce Shelterforce • California Lawmakers Propose $11.25 Billion Bond to Confront Housing Crisis - Davis Vanguard • Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing — Shelterforce Shelterforce • A gentrification battle in Boyle Heights over a proposed tax to clean streets - Los Angeles Times • What happened to Newsom pledge on investors buying CA homes? | Sacramento Bee • Opinion | CA's top-ranked economy also among most unequal in US • LA homeless agency has been underspending tens of millions of dollars allocated to it | LAist • Will the AI boom in SF cause another housing crisis in Oakland? • Client Challenge • Has Adding More Homes Than People Eased California’s Housing Crisis? - Public Policy Institute of California • Thousands are leaving Los Angeles year after year. This is why we still have a housing crunch - Los Angeles Times • New point in time count shows homelessness declined in California- CalMatters • This supervisor wants landlords to stop charging tenants ‘hidden rent’ • Read california renter law update • Why homelessness is so bad in the Bay Area • AI Boom Sends San Francisco Housing Prices Soaring, With Rents Rivaling NYC - Bloomberg • LA City Council committee sidelines ballot measure to cut ‘mansion tax’ rate | LAist • How Much Can Rent Legally Increase in California in 2026? What Renters Need to Know • California Gubernatorial Candidates Try to Distinguish Themselves on Housing Policies | KQED • Read California wildfire housing impact • Airport to housing? • Eagle Rock's Read Books launched revolt against Los Angeles landlords - Los Angeles Times • Why California housing costs remain high despite new homes | Sacramento Bee • California Dream Fades as High Housing Costs Prompt Exodus | Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com® • New LA eviction rule • Los Angeles releases searchable list of worst rental properties | KTLA • Here’s How the Candidates for Governor Would Make California More Affordable | KQED • Did Newsom’s $3.8 billion hotels-to-housing program pay off? | LAist • MSN • California governor candidates' views housing and homelessness - Los Angeles Times • California Bill Ending Tax Break for Corporate Landlords Fails to Advance | KQED • America's twin scarcities: 4-million-unit shortage in housing and childcare is breaking families | Fortune • Affordability rises for California homebuyers but gaps remain for Blacks, Hispanics – Orange County Register • Staggering number of Los Angeles renters consider drastic action over city’s insane housing costs • Congress is finally tackling the housing crisis. What will it mean for California? • A plan to cut a state tax is going to voters. Why LA’s ‘mansion tax’ is at the center of it • California governor candidates race to claim pro-housing mantle • This Bay Area affordable housing project is finally rising. The real test is what comes next • Opinion | California fights homelessness in the dark • Cities scramble to comply with or fight major state housing law - CalMatters • Q&A: How research aims to improve bad housing data • Renters use 'rent now, pay later' services to manage monthly payments, but fees raise concerns - Los Angeles Times • LA County declares housing insecurity a public health crisis | LAist • With limited dollars, this East Bay city asks how it can make the biggest impact on affordable housing – The Mercury News • Vacant commercial spaces hold the answer to affordable housing • California governor candidates on housing affordability. • Tell HUD: Keep Families Together and Housed! - Action Network • How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires • A long-stalled Venice affordable housing project could be moving forward - Los Angeles Times • How to get up to $19,000 in income support through city program • LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding. • Webinar 6/17: Trump Wants to Weaken Trans & Queer Housing Rights • More homes are entering SF’s pipeline. Are they getting built? • City officials consider ‘mansion tax’ changes, but critics say proposed fixes don't go far enough | LAist • Karen Bass seeks council approval of $360-million allocation for affordable housing - Los Angeles Times • New tool tracks affordable housing inventory in San Diego County – NBC 7 San Diego • CityWatch LA - The Citywide Devastation of the Ellis Act in Los Angeles • Under L.A. mayor's $300-million homeless program, 40% have returned to the street - Los Angeles Times • Tell HUD: Protect the Equal Access Rule! | A4TE • Univision Town Hall: Inmigración, ICE, vivienda y más: así respondieron los candidatos a gobernador de California • IMPACT REPORT 2025 • In St. Louis, Artist Housing Opens Up Homeownership Opportunities • From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes • Queer Housing Summit | Instagram | Linktree • Central Valley homeowners are watching property values sink with the land • Californians find cheap housing, less traffic, happiness in Tulsa - Los Angeles Times • Alameda County has the Bay Area’s third-highest eviction rate • Ramping up RV enforcement only makes it harder to house California's homeless | Opinion • California affordable housing programs are on the chopping block after Supreme Court ruling • So many reasons to stay put: What’s behind California’s frozen housing market? • L.A. is under the gun to add housing units. The hard part? Where and how many • Will we ever get enough housing? The future holds promise • The Homelessness Crisis Is a Crisis of Democracy • In their own words: Unhoused people on Skid Row talk about current conditions • LA housing vouchers will soon cover less rent. City officials blame Trump funding cuts • LA's population of unhoused older adults is growing while services are being cut • A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report • Latino tenants sued their landlord. A lawyer told them they would be 'picked up by ICE' • 1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit • Donate to Benito Flores' burial expenses • Stat: In CA you need to earn $50/hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment • Stat: Palmdale and Inglewood rent increases • Stat: Rent increases in Menlo Park, Richmond and San Jose • Stat: More than half of CA renters are rent-burdened • Stat: Average monthly rent in CA is $2800 • Stat: 44% of CA households are renters • A timeline of homelessness in Los Angeles • Holdouts in Marin County resist California rules speeding up multifamily housing | Opinion • Yo CA LGBTQ Advocates!: Housing Justice is LGBTQ Justice • Rent Prices Keep Rising Amid Inflation, Low Inventory - NerdWallet • California closes $12-billion deficit by cutting back immigrants' access to healthcare • Unhoused people want basic city services. Why aren’t they getting any? • Lower the Rent Campaign Coalition Meeting • Openings Arise for State and Local Housing Activists amid Federal Retrenchment - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly • They were repeatedly ticketed because of their homelessness. What did it change? • LA County leaders vote to extend housing price-gouging protections for another month • Hundreds pack City Hall to protest S.F. budget cuts • Two Problems, One Affordable Green Solution : Up First from NPR • Altadena ICE raid highlights fears that roundups will stymie rebuilding efforts • Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy? • Federal DEI, 'wokeness' restrictions put California homeless providers in a bind • Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? • Homelessness is top of mind for many Californians. Why does the proposed budget eliminate funding for it? • Training - How Budget Justice Can Solve California’s Housing Crisis • Some Studies Challenge Long-Held Views on Rent Control - Davis Vanguard • How gentrification is killing the bus: California’s rising rents are pushing out commuters • In areas near January's fires, rent is climbing faster than in rest of county • Elderly and disabled Californians with $2,000 in assets could lose Medi-Cal • Santa Clara’s new way to stop homelessness: Keep people in their homes • California Social Housing: A path toward achieving affordable housing, permanently - Asset Funders Network • City of LA lagging in state mandate for creating more housing units by 2029 • That $1B Pledge to Build Housing That Facebook Made Six Years Ago? It's Basically Dead • LA continues to fall far short of reaching state-mandated housing goals, city report shows • As Trump Reshapes Housing Policy, Renters Face Rollback of Rights • 'Millions out on the street virtually overnight': How Trump's budget proposal could affect California • This rich beachfront city is trying to launch an anti-housing insurgency in California • In a state with a dire affordable housing shortage, does the Coachella Valley offer hope? • City Council approves Mayor Johnson's "green social housing" plan to boost affordable housing • Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown • Op-Ed | Trump's Housing Cuts Will Hurt Working Poor and Homeless in California - Davis Vanguard • New numbers show California's affordability crisis is getting worse • What to do if your loved one is homeless and lost in California • Five months later, California's 'urgent' affordability push moves at a snail's pace • Affordable Housing in America Through Three People’s Eyes • A New Plan to Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis • To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here’s what I learned • We Need To Completely Rethink Affordable Housing. Here’s How To Start. • Angelenos in unstable housing more likely to shelter wildfire evacuees, according to survey • Bay Area lawmaker seeks to strengthen rent cap, tenant protections • Hundreds in OC are at risk of homelessness as HUD ends funding for emergency housing voucher program • New Legislation Would ‘Combat’ California’s ‘Housing Emergency’ - Davis Vanguard • As developers swoop in post LA fires, one nonprofit offers an alternative to Altadena sellers • Affordable Rent Act Petition • Can Other Cities Replicate Seattle’s Win on Green Social Housing? • California is spending billions on mental health housing. Will it reach those most in need? • SF's housing crisis poised to worsen because of Trump cuts • Where'd all the LA fire volunteers go? • 5 takeaways from LA’s troubling new homelessness spending audit • Advocates warn of worker exploitation in LA fire rebuilding effort • Pacific Palisades fire recovery is clouded by an imminent housing battle • A homeless woman struggles to say goodbye to the home she raised her kids in • Newsom wants to blame others for California's housing and homelessness failures | Opinion • 'Look, there’s nowhere else to go': Inside California’s crackdown on homeless camps • When I lived in a California homeless shelter, my hope turned into despair • California's fund to build student housing runs dry — leaving community colleges in the lurch • LA's housing crisis is trapping domestic violence survivors • Editorial: Keeping at-risk residents from losing their housing will be a key to solving homelessness • Scoop: Speaker Rivas makes money moves • Chicago introduces ordinance for green social housing development • Reality TV shows add to social housing stigma, report says • Have the Democrats Given Up on the Homelessness Crisis? • How the Eaton Fire motivated Altadena renters to organize for change • Recent wildfires raise stakes for LA’s annual Homeless Count • Tenants left in limbo after asking landlords and city officials to fix smoke damage • Mobile homes are some of California's last affordable housing. Can they rebuild after LA fires? • Housing burden | National Equity Atlas • Affordable housing is in short supply across the US. Atlanta may have found a way forward • Black Altadenans seek hope and resilience in the wake of the LA wildfires • CA Immigrant Data Portal • Half of renters pay more than 30% of their income on shelter amid worsening affordable housing shortage. Here’s how California compares. • Many renters are struggling after fleeing LA County wildfires - High Country News • Mobile homes by the beach: In Pacific Palisades, a middle-class dream is destroyed • Assemblymembers must adjust thinking of affordability in order to help Californians | Opinion • The Tongva's land burned in Eaton fire. But leaders say traditional practices mitigated damage • What to know about temporary housing, rents, price gouging during firestorm • The destruction of Altadena reverberates across Black Los Angeles • Newsom releases new budget proposal • The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake • Selling Sunset's Jason says landlords price gouging over LA fires • Yes, Price Gouging During LA Fires Is Illegal — and Here's How You Can Report It | KQED • Bonta alerts California renters to new caps on rent hikes • Social Housing coming to Los Angeles as part of Measure ULA funded programs • New homelessness data: How does California compare to the rest of the country? • Is Fresno unaffordable? Rising housing costs put strain on renters, homeowners • Building Our Future- Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing • Landlords beware: Rent-shamers are calling out overpriced listings online • Commentary: Even in L.A. County's solidly middle-class towns, home prices are soaring out of reach • L.A. City Council approves 'mansion tax' spending plan and program guidelines • Affordable housing preserved for East San Jose families - San José Spotlight • Dozens of Imperial Beach renters face eviction. Will the city pass new tenant protections? • Busing people out of homelessness: How California’s relocation programs really work • Opinion: On homelessness, liberal California and the ultraconservative Supreme Court largely agree • Landlords are using AI to raise rents — and California cities are leading the pushback • Green spaces and social housing: Paris’s ‘bioclimatic’ plan to transform the city by 2035 • One issue Trump and Newsom agree on? Homeless encampments • Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments • California’s unhoused people protest US supreme court order: ‘Not going to push us out of view’ • California Housing Projects Face ‘Financing Drought’ After Proposition 5’s Defeat | KQED • Most People Who Move Do It To Save on Housing • She fights for affordable housing in the Inland Empire. Now she's fighting to keep a roof over her head • Newsom Challenges Trump on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits • These L.A. tenants want to own their buildings. L.A. is collecting millions to help • L.A. County homeless tax passes, voters deadlocked on enlarging Board of Supes • Voters Turn Down Proposition 5, but Some Local Bond Measures May Pass Anyway | KQED • Proposition 33, the rent control statewide ballot measure, is rejected by California voters • Billionaire Blowback On Housing: How concentrated wealth disrupts housing markets and worsens the housing affordability crisis • Eastern Sierra housing crunch: With all this open land, why are so many workers living in vans? • A look at the state of affordable housing in the U.S. • The Future of Rent Control Is on the Ballot in California • She moved in search of affordable housing and ended up with more political power. Now what? • What Chinatown Tenants Can Teach Us About Saving “Affordable Housing" ~ L.A. TACO • 56% of California renters slammed by housing costs vs. 35% of homeowners • Housing nonprofit alleges widespread discrimination against Section 8 tenants in California • Endorsement: No on Proposition 34. Revenge measures have no place on California's ballot • To renovate an apartment — and not jack up the rent: These property owners have found a way • As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses • Gavin Newsom has not solved California's housing crisis. Three lessons for Kamala Harris • Marchers in downtown LA demand more affordable housing, lower caps on rental units • Thousands marched in downtown L.A. protesting rising rent, lack of affordable housing • DTLA protesters demand action to address California’s soaring cost of living • Marcha de inquilinos en protesta por la subida del alquiler y la accesibilidad de vivienda • "Raise the Wages" rally hits streets of Downtown LA • Housing Now! California