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From: Department of Housing & Community Development [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Department of Housing & Community Development
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Subject: HCD Web News - February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016
TODAY'S NEWS
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
ABC News 10: Affordable Housing Complex Opens in South Bay
By Joe Little [2-26-16] // (Video and text) San Diego County's need for affordable housing was apparent Friday when the Lofts on Landis celebrated its grand opening in Chula Vista. The units rent for as low as $507 a month and are available for families that make a maximum of $56,400 a year.
San Francisco Bay View: The Struggle for Renter Protections in Richmond Moves Forward
By Lynda Carson [2-28-16] // On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Fair and Affordable Richmond Coalition, a group uniting renters, homeowners, organizations, local elected officials, local community activists and labor, filed a proposed ballot measure to protect Richmond's tenants against unjust evictions and unfair rent increases.
SFGate: San Francisco Home Prices: Affordable to Only Eight Percent of Households?
By Anna Marie Erwert [2-29-16] // Despite the first drop in home values since 2011- posted at the close of 2015- San Francisco real estate still prices are still at record highs. This means that affordability is record low. How low? Does only eight percent of households earning enough to afford current home prices sound low enough? The only time it's been lower, incidentally, is right before the crash of 2007.
Multi-housing News: Enterprise Launches National Housing Policy Platform
By Samantha Goldberg [2-9-16] // Another organization is stepping up to combat the affordable housing issue in the United States, this time with a formal policy platform. Enterprise Community Partners Inc., a national nonprofit focused on creating opportunity for low- and moderate-income individuals through affordable housing, has just launched "An Investment in Opportunity," which lays out federal, state and local policy recommendations that the organization hopes will transform U.S. housing policy.
Housing Wire: The Poverty Housing Industry Is a Problem
By Rutledge Simmons [2-26-16] // (Opinion) As a Supreme Court ruling on housing policy loomed and unflattering depictions of the affordable housing industry circulated, I prepared for a relevant American Bar Association panel on housing policy. We explored incentives for creating affordable housing in "high opportunity areas" rather than concentrating such projects in distressed, low-income, minority neighborhoods.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
The Daily Californian: City Breaks Ground on $16 Million Affordable Senior Housing Apartment
By Roann Pao [2-29-16] // Several city officials and community-based developers broke ground Tuesday on a $16 million affordable senior housing facility in South Berkeley's Adeline Corridor, making it one of few located in the area. Located at 3132 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Harper Crossing - managed by Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, or SAHA - will provide 42 units for low-income seniors.
LAND USE / PLANNING / REGULATION
San Jose Mercury News: U.S. Supreme Court Leaves San Jose Housing Law in Place
By Howard Mintz [2-29-16] // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a legal challenge to a San Jose affordable housing law, leaving intact the city's effort to address the exploding cost of housing in Silicon Valley.
Sacramento Business Journal: Latest Reinvention of the Railyard Aims to Strike a Balance
By Ben van der Meer [2-19-16] // (Subscribe) A lot has changed since the first plans were submitted to the city to redevelop the railyard. Technology and fashion trends mean companies need less office space for the same number of workers. The homebuilding surge of the last boom shows no sign of returning. The result is a more balanced vision for the railyard.
HOUSING MARKETS / REAL ESTATE
Wall Street Journal: U.S. Pending Home Sales Tumbled 2.5% in January
By Anna Louie Sussman [2-29-16] // (Subscribe) The number of existing homes tentatively sold across the U.S. fell in January, as swiftly rising prices and lower inventory muted buyer demand after the strongest year in nearly a decade.
MORTGAGE & FORECLOSURE ISSUES
Wonkblog: Why Losing a Home Means Losing Everything
By Emily Badger [2-29-16] // How the housing market exploits the poor - and keeps them in poverty.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Next City: Philadelphia's Public Spaces Could Get a $500 Million Makeover
By Kelsey E. Thomas [2-29-16] // Philadelphia's parks and other public spaces could be getting a huge upgrade in coming years. ... "When we have a football league in South Philadelphia where we have suburban people come into our communities and look at what our kids have to play with, and then our kids go out to the suburbs and play in pristinely manicured fields, it makes us feel like second-class citizens, and we're not," he said. "I think this investment will give people in every community a sense of equity and fairness, that we care about them and we value them as citizens."
HOMELESSNESS
ABC10: Sacramento Leaders Visit Seattle Tent Cities in Search of Solution to Homelessness
By Suzanne Phan [2-26-16] // (Video and text) The homeless issue is so critical in Sacramento, city officials have turned to leaders in other cities to find answers. A special delegation from Sacramento just returned from their day trip to Seattle where they visited three homeless camps.
Sacramento Bee: Seattle Tent Cities: Solution for Homelessness or Unproven Distraction?
By Ryan Lillis [2-27-16] // Seattle: In this city of striking geographic beauty and extreme wealth, tents and tarps battered by the tough winter months are becoming part of the view. Homeless encampments line Interstate 5 as it enters downtown, clearly visible to commuters and tourists heading in from the airport.
Sacramento Business Journal: Why Sacramento Leaders Are Fighting a Homeless-rights Bill
By Allen Young [2-24-16] // (Subscribe.) The city of Sacramento and a downtown merchants group are fighting state legislation that would prohibit police officers from arresting or ticketing people for sleeping outdoors.
The Union: We Must Be Open to Real Solutions on Homelessness
By Pauli Halstead [2-26-16] // (Opinion) Nevada City/Grass Valley: The general public may be unaware of current State Law requiring jurisdictions to adjust zoning to accommodate emergency shelters.
ECONOMY / EMPLOYMENT
Next City: Workforce Development Is Growing Way Past City Lines
By Oscar Perry Abello [2-26-16] // When it comes to creating career paths and fostering broader upward mobility, now is an especially crucial and some would say exciting time, to look past city lines and into metro regions. A recent Brookings paper pointed out that inequality is a regional phenomenon.
Clean Technica: New US Wind Farms Invested $128 Billion into US Economy over Last 10 Years
By Joshua S. Hill [2-26-16] // By simply building new wind farms, the US wind industry has contributed $128 billion into the US economy over the last 10 years.
San Francisco Chronicle: As Bay Area Economy Booms, the Rich Get Richer, Study Shows
By Joaquin Palomino [2-26-16] // While the Bay Area's economy is booming, much of the wealth being created lands in the hands of the region's richest residents, according to a recent report by the California Budget and Policy Center.
TRANSPORTATION / TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Sacramento Bee: Public Transit Needs More Investment
By Emily Rusch [2-28-16] // The central premise of the opinion piece, "Invest tax dollars in roads, not public transportation" (Viewpoints, Feb. 14), is that Californians have given up on public transit and we need to invest more in roads instead. The truth is that public transit provides a critical service, demand for which is near record highs - though investments have largely been drowned out by over-investment in roads.
OCRegister: Emphasis on Smart Kind of Transit Will Boost O.C. Ridership
By Baruch Feigenbaum [2-28-16] // (Opinion) The most effective transit network for Orange County would be a bus-based network that takes advantage of toll roads and express lanes to give customers fast trips that are cheaper than they can get in cars.
New York Daily News: Harlem Activists Fight Citibike Program Expansion, Slam It as 'Gateway to Gentrification'
By Chauncey Alcorn [2-26-16] // Harlem leaders want Citibike to keep its cycle of gentrification out of their neighborhood.
REDEVELOPMENT / INFILL / REVITALIZATION
Baltimore Sun: Redeveloping Urban America without Gentrification
By Donte L. Hickman [2-28-16] // (Opinion; Video and text) As a minister, I have had the fortune of traveling across the length and breadth of this country speaking to congregations and audiences for the past 25 years. Recently, I have noticed a trend that I find a bit disconcerting. Major cities - including Washington, D.C.; Chicago and Philadelphia - that were in considerable economic decline 20 years ago are now experiencing a great deal of economic renewal and urban revitalization. While these trends are viewed positively by many, I find myself wondering at whose expense this development is occurring. Is the redevelopment of urban America displacing low income minorities who have been there for the past half century?
NATIONAL HOUSING NEWS
Next City: Small-Town America Is Facing Big-City Problems
By Bill Bradley [2-29-16] // From Portland, Maine, to Traverse City, Michigan, many smaller U.S. cities are struggling with densification, NIMBY politics and housing affordability.
DEMOGRAPHICS / QUALITY OF LIFE
Journal Sentinel: 'Evicted' Depicts Milwaukeeans Struggling to Find Affordable Housing
By Jim Higgins [2-26-16] // (Book Review) For nearly a decade, Matthew Desmond has studied the relationship between eviction and poverty in a single American city: Milwaukee. The MacArthur Foundation awarded him a "genius" grant last year for his research, including the Milwaukee Area Renters Study he designed and supervised, which yielded this sobering conclusion: "Among Milwaukee renters, over 1 in 5 black women report having been evicted in their adult life, compared to 1 in 12 Hispanic women and 1 in 15 white women." "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" (Crown) makes this research come alive.
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE CHANGE
Next City: New Orleans Is Testing Ground for Southern Solar Power
By Jen Kinney [2-25-16] // Entergy New Orleans broke ground this month on the city's first utility-scale solar project. The array of 4,000 solar panels will represent firsts for the New Orleans-headquartered energy company too: both the first utility-scale solar installation in their system, and an experiment in advanced battery storage technology. With the project, Entergy is testing the use of a battery that could pave the way to a more efficient solar-integrated energy utility.
Renew Economy: California Says Australia Has Nothing to Fear from More Renewables
By Giles Parkinson [2-25-16] // One of the senior members of the California Energy Commission, which is overseeing the state's ambitious 50 per cent renewable energy target, says Australia has nothing to fear from a grid with high renewable energy penetration. "We are at the beginning of the end of the coal era," said David Hochschild, one of 5 CEC commissioners. And, he adds, high levels of renewables will not "crash the economy", nor will they cause blackouts. In fact, in California, they had found the reverse.
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