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Jan 25 4:47 pm
  • Affordable Housing

Old North Long Beach library could be replaced by 8 new affordable homes

Jason Ruiz

The old North Long Beach neighborhood library could be demolished and replaced with eight for-sale affordable homes if the city reaches an agreement with Habitat for Humanity Los Angeles.

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Jan 15 11:30 am
  • Downtown Long Beach

Officials to begin hearing process for housing project replacing City Place

Jason Ruiz

The “Mosaic” housing project could bring 900 new apartments to Downtown with 56 units being reserved for very-low income households.

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Oct 2 5:43 am
  • Affordable Housing

California will soon eliminate parking mandates near transit; here’s how that will impact Long Beach

Laura Anaya-Morga

The legislation will remove a significant hurdle in creating urban housing, and seeks to decrease the need for cars in traffic-dense cities like Long Beach.

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Sep 30 9:22 am
  • Affordable Housing

Developers could use tax-exempt bonds to build housing under proposed new program

Jason Ruiz

The City Council will consider a proposed “Middle-income” housing program that would allow developers to partner with a joint powers authority to issue bonds to finance the construction of new housing, or to acquire existing buildings, so long as the units are reserved for moderate-income households.

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Sep 24 7:00 am
  • Affordable Housing

California’s newest housing law will eliminate parking mandates near transit

Laura Anaya-Morga

The new law eliminates parking requirements for new developments located within a half-mile of a major transit stop.

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Aug 8 7:37 am
  • Affordable Housing

Could this COVID program help reduce the California housing crisis?

Manuela Tobias and Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters

An emergency housing voucher program offers improvements to the decades-old federal solution to the housing affordability crisis, but landlord reluctance remains a crucial hurdle.

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Jul 20 9:56 am
  • Affordable Housing

City Council asks for incentives for landlords who accept unhoused people with vouchers

Jason Ruiz

Health department officials say that over 400 homeless people have Section 8 housing vouchers that pay up to 70% of their monthly rents, and sometimes all of it.

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Jan 29 7:00 am
  • Affordable Housing

Student housing is tight. A California plan wants $5 billion for affordable beds

Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters

Student housing in California is already tight and the state has big plans to expand enrollment at the University of California and the Cal States. A $5 billion proposal would give campuses loans at no interest to expand their housing stock.

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Jan 28 7:00 am
  • long beach civic center

City may seek bond funding to secure affordable units at new Civic Center apartments

Jason Ruiz

The City Council could enter into a deal that would use $490 million in tax-exempt bonds to construct residential units that will complete the new Long Beach Civic Center.

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Jan 19 2022 1:58 pm
  • Affordable Housing

Long Beach to look at using bonds to increase housing for middle-income renters

Jason Ruiz

Long Beach and other cities have been trying to increase the region’s housing stock for middle-income earners, which often is not attractive to developers—but using bonds to purchase housing comes with pitfalls, consultants warn.

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