LOW-INCOME HOUSING ON CHURCH LAND Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California can now turn their parking lots and other properties into affordable housing. The new law, which helps these institutions bypass most local permitting and environmental review rules, was among several i...
“The law has been completely ineffective at addressing the issue of housing affordability,” said Paavo Monkkonen, an associate professor of urban planning at UCLA. “If anything, it’s a waste of people’s time.” Prison beds and student dormitories count as low-income housing?
In California, a new law helps low-income borrowers build credit
Housing Element Law provides more stringent requirements for low-income housing that should have been accommodated during the previous cycle, but has instead been rolled over to a new planning cycle. Specifically, when identifying certain sites to accommodate low-income units, jurisdictions must...
Cities and counties are required by law to approve a certain number of low income housing units as part of their development plans. If they don't meet those goals, they will face hefty fines. California also plans to give out $6.5 billion this year for housing development....
Leslie1, Itzel Estrada2, Margaret K. Libby2, Sheri A. Lippman1 and Marguerita A. Lightfoot3 Abstract Background Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing dis- parities among low-income Black young ...
Jennifer Hernandez, a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm, disagrees with that assessment. “CEQA is tremendous, but it has been used as a tool to stop any project at any time.” Suggesting that CEQA reformers and low-income housing activists should be on the same side, Hernandez cit...
More than 2.24 million low-income adults in California cannot always afford to put food on the table and, as a result, almost one out of three of these adults, 658,000, experiences episodes of hunger. This is a sad reality in a state that has the largest agricultural economy in the Uni...
Since 1969, California’s Housing Element Law has required that municipalities address housing equity and housing production. In California, housing equity means that a municipality has planned for the future production of low-income housing that is priced from 0 to 120% of the U.S. Department ...
It was a law which lacked teeth--rather than holding municipalities responsible for ensuring housing development, it only measured the compliance of each city’s Housing Element to state housing allocations (Ramsey-Musolf para. 2-4). In 1980, the legislature passed several amendments to address th...