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The Little Hoover Commission has received Governor Gavin Newsom’s reorganization plan to create two new state agencies focused on housing & homelessness and business & consumer services. Our independent review process formally begins today. Plan details ⬇️ lhc.ca.gov/report/governo…

View the recording of “Rebuilding after Disaster,” an event hosted by California Policy Lab, the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and the Terner Center: ow.ly/HeWk50VxS5V

"Leveraging CalAIM in Permanent Supportive Housing" Webinar, 4/22, 10am PT: Learn about challenges #housing providers face in integrating CalAIM funding into properties, & models & partnerships leveraging CalAIM to improve outcomes for residents. Register: ow.ly/No3550VxRKS

Join us online April 22, 10am PT for "Leveraging CalAIM in Permanent Supportive Housing" to learn about successful models and partnerships of #housing providers leveraging CalAIM to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. Register: ow.ly/No3550VxRKS

Managing Director @BenTMetcalfwill discuss the opportunities for LA County’s new regional housing finance agency at the Los Angeles Business Council's Mayoral Housing, Transportation and Jobs Summit on April 25. Register: ow.ly/l22F50VxOTx

Join us: "Leveraging CalAIM in Permanent Supportive Housing" Webinar, Tues, 4/22, 10am PT: Learn about challenges housing providers face and successful models for leveraging CalAIM to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. Register: ow.ly/No3550VxRKS

Gov. Newsom's proposed housing agency is a chance to fix the complexity of affordable housing financing. The need to layer public funding sources adds time & costs: an estimated 4 months + $20,460 in per-unit development costs for each additional source. ow.ly/f5SA50VF18V

New analysis: To build affordable housing, developers often must layer Low-Income Housing Tax Credits with other funding. Projects with 3-5 added public funding sources take nearly 2 years, on average, between first funding application & LIHTC award. ow.ly/kOKE50VF1rc

APRIL 23 (continued): Panel 2: Research Ben Metcalf & Sarah Karlinsky (Terner Center) Arnie Sowell, Jr. & Brian Weinberger (NextGen Policy) Panel 3: Building & Development Mark Stivers (California Housing Partnership) Marina Espinoza (CHC)

Honored to have Terner Center Managing Director Ben Metcalf and Research Director Sarah Karlinsky testify at these important hearings.

Our new analysis highlights the need to fix CA’s complicated affordable housing financing system. Key finding: layering each additional public funding source adds an average of 4 months to the development timeline + $20,460 to total per-unit costs. ow.ly/i8S950VFRCE

Hear from experts about leveraging CalAIM in permanent supportive housing, including challenges providers face and models & partnerships successfully leveraging CalAIM to improve outcomes for residents. Webinar recording: ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/leveragin…

Yesterday Terner Center experts Ben Metcalf & Sarah Karlinsky testified at the CA Little Hoover hearing on Governor Newsom’s proposed state government reorganization, which would create a California Housing and Homelessness Agency: ow.ly/IIYE50VHhnT

A KQED article cites the Terner Center's legislative preview highlighting housing bills introduced this session: ow.ly/b2lh50VHsWE ow.ly/f4Op50VHsW2

A KQED piece today highlights a 2024 Terner Center report: "Most nonprofits that provide homeless services in California can’t help everyone who asks, in part because they struggle to recruit and retain staff." ow.ly/jpLW50VHsYK ow.ly/bGo250VHsYX

Today Managing Director Ben Metcalf unveiled findings of a new study commissioned by the LA Business Council Institute on new housing finance models to access capital markets for the LA County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency (starts around -5:45:42): ow.ly/m4Is50VI6LQ

.Ben Metcalf will interview Jerusalem Demsas, Atlantic writer whose book, "On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy," explores generational impacts of the US housing shortage. May 29, 6:00 - 8:00pm PT. In-person: bit.ly/letstalkhousin…; Zoom: lnkd.in/dA4R3TEV

Ever wondered what it takes to finance affordable housing developments? 🏘️💥 @ternerhousing released a study, "Reducing the Complexity in California's Affordable Housing Finance System," that shares important details on what solutions #EndHomelessnessOC: heyor.ca/q9NxuI

Watch testimony from Terner Center experts at the hearing on Governor Newsom’s proposed state government reorganization, which would create a California Housing and Homelessness Agency.

Two UC Berkeley graduate student teams have been selected as finalists for the national 2025 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design & Planning Competition—abruptly terminated by HUD in Feb & subsequently rebooted thanks to Ben Metcalf & others: ow.ly/WoUM50VLIFH