- BHHI Director Margot Kushel, MD was quoted in this Examiner piece on San Francisco’s homelessness strategy.
- Asm. Buffy Wicks will be the next chair of the Assembly Housing Committee.
- In case you missed it, here is the Terner Center’s snapshot of extremely low-income households in the Bay Area. (I previously blogged about the study, which was commissioned by All Home.)
- Gimme Shelter, the must-listen podcast on California’s housing crisis, interviews Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg regarding his right to housing proposal.
- From a Los Angeles Times poll: “While white voters most often cited lack of access to healthcare as the root cause of homelessness, Black, Latino and Asian American voters most often pointed to soaring housing costs and low wages.”
- The same poll finds Los Angeles voters generally back either a right to shelter or a right to housing.
- The White House is holding a forum on health and housing next week. (You can register here.)
- California is not adding enough housing to keep up with job growth.
- A great piece on Emeryville, one of the few Bay Area cities to embrace housing production.
- Lastly, a look at why New York has struggled to replicate the successes of California’s Project Homekey.