- The City of Oakland has announced the launch of its "shallow subsidy" pilot, which will provide 200 low-income households with cash rental subsidies for 18 months. BHHI will be conducting an evaluation to determine whether this program is effective at preventing homelessness.
- The Legislative Analyst's Office forecasts a $31 billion surplus in California's 2022-23 budget.
- BHHI director Margot Kushel, MD, was quoted in this CalMatters article on CalTrans encampment clearances.
- Researchers from BHHI, UC Berkeley, and the UC ANR Nutrition Policy Institute have released a two-page summary of key findings from their interviews with EITC-eligible parents of young children. Some of their findings made it into our brief on the California eviction moratorium and rental assistance program.
- On the campus housing crisis.
- California offered legal aid referrals to rent relief applicants – and then didn’t follow through after 44,000 people requested those referrals.
- From the New York Times Magazine, a longread on the utter chaos that is Austin’s housing market.
- More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021.
- A good piece from Brookings housing expert Jenny Schuetz on how state governments can encourage healthy housing markets.
- Sacramento’s mayor wants to create “a right to housing with a parallel obligation to accept it.”
- Urban Institute: "[T]he transfer of responsibility for affordable housing provision to the private sector without any increase in support for direct public funding for affordable housing ... has likely exacerbated the nation’s shortage of affordable housing."
- Lastly, I recommend this extremely informative webinar on homelessness hosted by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.