Newsroom 2024 Archive
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…
March 28, 2024
The childhood feeling of receiving a long-awaited present permeated the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for Fresno’s new affordable housing community, The Arthur at Blackstone.
The Arthur at Blackstone is a combination of adaptive reuse and…
March 22, 2024
HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez joined community and housing leaders at the 2024 Housing California Conference. More than 2,000 attendees gathered for workshops, plenary sessions, learning labs, and roundtables to discuss the challenges and…
March 19, 2024
Windsor, CA —
José Fuentes and his family enjoy watching the sunset off the balcony of their new home. Their new apartment is in Redwood Views, a new 100% affordable housing development in Windsor, CA.
The Fuentes family has lived in Windsor for…