April 2024 Newsletter
March Ballot Results May Portend Trouble in November
The mixed results for Proposition 1, the Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure, which would dramatically restructure how individuals who are unsheltered and living with mental illness can [...]
Supreme Court Term Features Two Housing and Homelessness Cases
The 2023-2024 Supreme Court term will feature two key cases highlighting tensions in the public discourse regarding housing and homelessness, particularly in California. The first, Sheetz v. County of [...]
State Legislative Update: New Senate Pro Tempore and Notable Bills
February 16th marked the deadline for new bills to be introduced for this year’s legislative session; 2,124 new bills were introduced, many of which attempted to tackle controversial issues [...]
New Bills and Second-Year Bills Still in Play
With the deadline for new bills to be introduced approaching on February 16, the legislature has been busy introducing numerous bills. We expect momentum to increase as we approach [...]
What We’re Reading
Reports
2024 Legislative Preview: Housing and Homelessness Legislation Amid New Leadership and Budgetary Challenges | Terner Center | March 2024
Biden Administration Releases FY25 Budget | NCSHA | March 2024
Fact Sheet: Using Modular Building To Increase Affordable Housing Stock | Center for American Progress | March 2024
Lessons From California’s Homekey Program: Adding Affordable Housing by Buying Market-Rate Apartment Buildings | UCLA Lewis Center | February 2024
Articles
The Feds Want to Study Giving Cash to Renters. Will Californians be Included? | CalMatters | March 22, 2024
Biden Suggests a Bigger Federal Role to Reduce Housing Costs | New York Times | March 21, 2024 (possibly paywalled)
The End of Skid Row’s Cheap Hotels? L.A. Leaders Want to Replace Last-Resort Homeless Housing | LA Times | March 19, 2024 (possibly paywalled)
For the First Time in 15 Years, Federal Housing Administration Increases Loan Limits to Expand Financing for Manufactured Homes | HUD | March 18, 2024
Fresh Batch of YIMBY Housing Bills Clash with Coastal Protections (Again) | CalMatters | March 18, 2024
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing | New York Times | March 17, 2024 (possibly paywalled)
Why Private Developers Are Rejecting Government Money for Affordable Housing | Wall Street Journal | March 16, 2024 (possibly paywalled)
Cities Face Cutbacks as Commercial Real Estate Prices Tumble | New York Times | March 14, 2024 (possibly paywalled)
After Leading a Back to the City Movement, Many Millennials Moved to the Suburbs | Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies | March 14, 2024
In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs | New York Times | March 12, 2024 (possibly paywalled)