Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Affordable Housing

Not all transit oriented development needs to be as dense as the new housing at MacArthur BART station in Oakland, but it does need to include affordable units. These 90 units are a portion of the total project, built on a former parking lot at the station.

TransForm: California Needs More Housing, It Needs to Be Near Transit, and It Must Be Affordable

By Melanie Curry | Feb 19, 2020 | No Comments

Upzoning is necessary, but doing it without adequate anti-displacement and affordability requirements puts upward pressure on areas near transit, creating a whole cascade of unwanted effects.

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Public Comment Period on Dorset Village Extended After Questions Arise

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 16, 2020 | No Comments

The original comment period straddled Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa before closing on December 27.

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Car-Dependency Makes City Life Too Expensive

By Kea Wilson | Jan 16, 2020 | No Comments

If we truly want to reckon with our national poverty crisis, we have to make going car-lite or car-free a possibility for more people.

North Berkeley BART station is surrounded by 8.1 acres of publicly-owned land which could be put to better use as housing than car storage. The process of making that happen has begun.

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Housing at Transit: Berkeley Moves to Comply with New State Zoning Law

By Melanie Curry | Dec 12, 2019 | No Comments

Step one: creating a Memorandum of Understanding between BART and Berkeley so they can work together. The MOU will guide Berkeley's accelerated rezoning of these two parcels.

Rolland Curtis Gardens in Los Angeles received a $4m grant to build 70 units of affordable housing and active transportation programming. Photo from AHSC annual report

CA’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program Works

By Melanie Curry | Dec 10, 2019 | No Comments

New annual report outlines progress of program to increase affordable housing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Other benefits: getting agencies to work together, creating new active transportation infrastructure, preventing displacement

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City Council Unanimously Approves HHH Funding, Including Chatsworth Supportive Housing

By Joe Linton | Oct 16, 2019 | No Comments

Councilmember John Lee had pushed to postpone a Chatsworth housing project, but voted in favor today

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