Newsroom 2024 Archive
May 7, 2024
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Governor is sponsoring new legislation that will add measures to hold cities and counties accountable when they fail to adequately address homelessness. The legislation, AB 3093 (Ward), will ensure that local…
May 3, 2024
San Jose, CA —
The San Jose community recently celebrated the grand opening of Solaire Apartments, bringing new and much-needed supportive, transit-oriented, affordable housing for low-income and very low-income families, seniors, and individuals to Santa Clara…
April 30, 2024
HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez joined community leaders and residents in celebrating the grand opening of Mutual Housing on the Boulevard, a new affordable housing development in Sacramento. A project of Mutual Housing, this development provides…
April 26, 2024
Long Beach, CA —
The community of Long Beach, California, recently celebrated the grand opening of Wellspring, a new 88-unit affordable housing development with a community health and wellness center. The development was supported by $20 million in funding from…
April 24, 2024
Sacramento, CA —
California Governor Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) today announced a settlement with the city of Malibu that will enable the city to reach compliance…
April 19, 2024
Sacramento, CA —
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that the cities of Berkeley, Brea, Crescent City, Fairfield, Pinole, Rancho Cucamonga, Richmond, South Lake Tahoe, and West Hollywood and the County of Los Angeles have earned the coveted Prohousing…
April 18, 2024
Sacramento, CA —
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) today published California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). In this report, HCD recommends to legislators the changes to the…
April 17, 2024
Sacramento, CA —
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced the second round of awards from California’s innovative Multifamily Finance Super NOFA (MFSN), designed to spur much-needed housing development by reducing…
April 11, 2024
Having a home is about having security, protection, and hope for the future. That is the sentiment heard from Nicole, a resident of Los Arroyos, a new affordable housing community in Farmersville.
Nicole and her daughter Solene moved into…
April 5, 2024
Lashay had lived in the same apartment for ten years. But when the neighborhood became overrun with drugs, Lashay knew she needed to move for her 8-year-old son Michah’s safety. Unfortunately, shortly after moving, she and her son needed to move…