Affordable Housing Finance leaders look ahead to 2020

The Affordable Housing Finance editorial advisory board recently weighed in on major factors that are likely to influence the industry in 2020. They cited five key indicators to watch in the coming year …

Stan Keasling Community Center opens in Oildale

Self-Help Enterprises hosted a ribbon cutting for the Stan Keasling Community Center on Friday in Oildale. The center, named for Rural Community Assistance Corporation’s (RCAC) Chief Executive Officer Stan Keasling, will provide resources for North Park Apartment residents.

Affordable housing becomes national issue for presidential hopefuls

At least three presidential hopefuls—former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, along with Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)–have presented detailed proposals that would encourage or pressure communities to create more affordable housing.

Northern California rural communities losing affordable housing

California’s chronic housing shortage is not only an urban problem. As more residents flee the cities in search of affordable housing, rising housing prices and stagnant wages follow them.

California’s Kern County lags in affordable housing

California lawmakers say that Kern County, in the rural Central Valley, is failing to build enough housing. The lawmakers base their conclusion on a California Department of Housing and Community Development report, which cites that all of Kern’s 11 cities and the county itself, are failing to meet state housing construction requirements.