Affordable Housing

As the state stares down a drastic shortage of housing units, lawmakers are looking for new ways to help developers build faster and reduce costs.

The project is estimated to cost about $5.8 million and is paid for by a series of grants.

A $700 million state program targets homelessness, but housing shortages, staffing challenges and funding gaps are making it harder to move people into permanent housing.

Tens of thousands of affordable units across California are stuck in financial purgatory, according to a new report. Will more money get them moving?

Building homes inside a factory has long been seen as a way to revolutionize the American housing industry, ushering in a new era of higher quality homes at lower price. That dream has never quite panned out. Can California finally make it happen?

Oregon says to keep up with demand, Ashland needs to build more than 3,500 new housing units in the next 20 years, but city officials say that’s not possible.

California conducts a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) every eight years, which determines how many housing units need to be built in each jurisdiction.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Santa Clara County and San Francisco are suing the Trump administration over a huge shift in homelessness policy.

Cynthia Scherr, host of The Ground Floor, visits with Jerryck Murrey, founder of Annum Housing.

Three new pro-development appointees at the powerful Coastal Commission are trying to remedy its poor reputation among housing activists and Democratic leaders.

The money from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality will convert vacant or low-occupancy nonresidential buildings into affordable housing. That could include industrial or commercial buildings as well as hotels or motels.

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.