Each year, thousands of California’s low-income renters are displaced from apartments that were previously affordable to them due to expiring regulatory agreements on government-subsidized affordable homes or conversions of properties into market-rate rentals that price out lower income residents. This panel highlights the California Housing Partnership’s latest statewide and county-level analysis of data on at-risk affordable homes and those that have already been lost, discussing the risk, loss and preservation of traditional, deed-restricted as well as unsubsidized properties.
Nonprofit housing providers working in the trenches to preserve these homes will discuss the obstacles they are facing in this work, and local policy leads will describe the proposals currently under development in Sacramento.
PRESENTERS
Matt Schwartz, California Housing Partnership
Report Presenters:
Subsidized At-Risk Report Highlights: Danielle Mazzella, California Housing Partnership
Unsubsidized At-Risk Report Highlights: Matt Alvarez-Nissen, California Housing Partnership
Panel 1 - Defining the Problem
Moderator: Heather Bromfield, Enterprise Community Partners
Panelists:
● Ken Litzinger, Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo (HASLO)
● Aubra Levine, The Unity Council
Panel 2 - Defining Solutions and Opportunities
Moderator: Chione Lucina Muñoz Flegal, Housing California
Panelists:
● Mark Stivers, California Housing Partnership
● Andrew Dawson, California Housing Partnership
● Lila Gitesatani, National Housing Law Project
● Amiel Leaño Atanacio, Enterprise Community Partners