Recent Newsletters
Governor and Partners Announce Transformation of Mental Health Services Act
On June 20th, Governor Newsom, in partnership with Senator Talamantes Eggman (Stockton) and Assemblymember Irwin (Thousand Oaks), announced plans to modernize the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and bring a measure before the voters [...]
Congresswoman Waters Proposes Billions for Affordable Housing
On June 21st, Representative Maxine Waters reintroduced a package of bills that would inject billions into affordable housing and homelessness programs. Similar bills had been introduced in 2021. The bills face a difficult challenge given [...]
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Completes Comprehensive Homelessness Study
The University of California, San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) just released Toward a New Understanding — The California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness - a comprehensive study on the causes of [...]
New Report Highlights Growth of Community Land Trusts and Shared Equity Housing
Grounded Solutions and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, in partnership with the University of Toronto, completed the first comprehensive national study of Community Land Trusts (CLT) and Shared Equity (SE) organizations in more [...]
Terner Center Releases Report on Permanent Supportive Housing
Last week, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation released a report — Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies — that shows the importance of sustained operating [...]
New Report from U.C. Davis Cites Conflict Between CEQA and the Housing Accountability Act
A new report that looks at conflicts between two laws that have an outsized impact on housing development - When Super Statutes Collide: CEQA, the Housing Accountability Act, and Tectonic Change in Land Use [...]