California

The State of California filed lawsuits against five cities on July 16 for failing to meet the deadline to submit a plan to address housing shortages in their municipalities as required by the Housing Element Law. The state asks that the five cities, Half Moon Bay, Costa Mesa, Calexico, Turlock, and Ridgecrest, be fined and […]

The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC) has opened an application for Restore Rebuild Projects seeking an allocation of low-income housing tax credits. To apply, complete the application at this link and submit it via email to [email protected] no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. CTCAC will provide confirmation of a pending […]

Dave Rand was appointed to the California Housing Finance Agency’s Board of Directors by Governor Gavin Newsom last week. Since 2022, Rand has been a founding partner of Rand, Paster and Nelson LLP, where he specializes in navigating land use laws and governmental regulatory matters to help preserve and create mixed-use and multifamily housing developments. […]

The Terner Center for Housing and Innovation at UC Berkeley released an article analyzing the new California Housing and Homelessness Agency (CHHA), launching July 1, 2026. CHHA’s goal is to centralize and streamline its fragmented affordable housing funding system, including creating a Housing Development and Finance Committee (HDFC) to oversee all multifamily subsidy programs and […]

McFadden joins CalHFA as it looks to expand its affordable housing finance offerings The California Housing Finance Agency announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Katherine McFadden to serve as CalHFA’s Director of Multifamily Programs. She takes over the important leadership position at a time when the Agency is looking to broaden its affordable […]

This memo includes the final proposed regulation changes, the initial statement of reasons, a brief summary of the comments received, staff’s responses to comments, including explanations to any proposed revisions to the initially proposed changes, and the final proposed changes for LIHTC programs. CTCAC staff also received comments on regulation changes outside the scope of this regular rulemaking and will consider those […]

See the memorandum and response to comments for the draft 2026 CTCAC/HCD Opportunity Area Map and Neighborhood Change Map published to the CTCAC website here. 

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation published their 2025 California Housing Supply and Land Use Legislative Round-Up. The article provides an overview of key California bills focused on land use reforms and high-impact housing supply passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. Many of the bills focused on  refinements and […]

The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee released its draft 2026 CTCAC/HCD Opportunity Area Map and Neighborhood Change Map and has published it to the CTCAC website here.

Tony Sertich is the new Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency after he was appointed to the position by Governor Gavin Newsom.   Sertich, who most recently served as the Assistant Deputy Director over the Division of State Financial Assistance at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, is no stranger to […]

The California Department of Housing and Community Development announced awards totaling just over $414.2 million and will make possible the development or rehabilitation of 2,099 homes in 16 California counties. Of those homes, 794 are reserved for extremely low-income Californians—defined as people earning up to 30 percent of Area Median Income (AMI); 866 are reserved […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) released a model ordinance for cities and counties to address homeless encampments.