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With housing prices out of reach for many, California is facing the need to find new ways to create housing affordable to middle-income households. A promising new model — joint powers authority (JPA) owned middle-income housing — uses tax incentives to close the gap between development costs and affordable rents. This brief by ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅand the Terner Center for Housing Innovation explains how the JPA model works, how it’s being used and how to ensure that it delivers meaningful public benefits.

On May 12, 2022, Oakland's draft General Plan Housing Element was published for public review, which outlines the strategies Oakland will execute over the next eight years in order to achieve the city’s housing goals. ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅsubmitted a letter with feedback on the Draft Housing Element.

ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅwrote a letter to California State Senate Housing Committee Chair Weiner recommending a support if amended position on Assembly Bill 1850 (Ward).

The 2022 Statewide Housing Plan estimates that California needs to build 2.5 million units of housing over the next eight years. Yet California averages less than 100,000 new units per year and has never produced more than 20,000 new affordable homes in any year. AB 2011 will do just that. It pairs the ability to build housing by right on underutilized commercial sites with strong labor standards that ensure all construction workers earn prevailing wages and receive health benefits. ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅand its partners support AB 2011.

ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅencourages ABAG and MTC to pursue a multi-pronged strategy for public transit, places a $10-20 billion regional housing measure in November of 2024 and supports the staff proposal to move forward with enabling legislation and other foundational work as part of the pathway towards a regional measure for public transit and sustainable transportation.

ºÚÁÏ´«ËÍÃÅand the Greenbelt Alliance commented on the proposed amendments to the Municipal Regional Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit.