by California Rental Housing Association | November 15, 2019 | Housing Crisis, Message from the President
Written by Sid Lakireddy, President of CalRHA More often than not, the media fails to tell our stories. So many of us represent the tenacity, hard work, and sacrifice that is takes to build businesses to provide for our families, which is, as you know, a very...
by California Rental Housing Association | October 30, 2017 | CalRHA, Housing, Housing Crisis, Housing Shortage
Written By Nathanael Johnson of Grist.org This was at least the eighth time that Scott Wiener sat through the same PowerPoint presentation, and he was beginning to wonder what the heck was going on. It was 2009, and Wiener was an environmentalist and LGBT-rights...
by California Rental Housing Association | July 18, 2017 | CalRHA, Housing, Housing Crisis
Written By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CONOR DOUGHERTY of The New York Times A full-fledged housing crisis has gripped California, marked by a severe lack of affordable homes and apartments for middle-class families. The median cost of a home here is now a staggering $500,000,...
by California Rental Housing Association | October 27, 2016 | Housing, Housing Crisis, New Construction, Uncategorized
By Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke, Shannon Peloquin, and Daniel Weisfield of McKinsey Global Institute, the McKinsey Global Institute provides a tool kit for fixing a chronic housing shortage in the world’s sixth biggest economy. Access to decent, affordable...
by California Rental Housing Association | October 27, 2016 | Housing, Housing Crisis, New Construction
By Timothy L. Coyle, Consultant Specializing in Housing Issues California elected officials proclaim a housing crisis is upon us. Like a plague of locusts, they say the problem was unforeseen and it deserves government’s attention. Frankly, an argument can be...
by California Rental Housing Association | October 3, 2016 | Housing, Housing Crisis, Rent Control
By Steve Buckstein Once again, Portland led the nation this July with its home prices rising 12.4 percent year-over-year versus the national average of just 5.0 percent. As of April, Portland remained the 12th most expensive rental market in the nation. These numbers...
