Los Angeles needs half a million more affordable housing units, By Karen Weise, May 29, 2014, Businessweek: “California’s housing market has long been among the most expensive in the country, and the economic downturn has only made the situation worse. That’s one of the findings in a new report (pdf) from the California Housing Partnership Corporation, a nonprofit group set up by the state, that determined that Los Angeles County needs at least 490,340 more affordable homes to ease the housing burden on the state’s poorest residents. The county-level results echo the group’s February report (pdf) that found Californians need almost 1 million additional affordable housing units statewide. The CHPC’s reports are, frankly, devastating. The problem they lay out is that the financial crisis turned owners into renters . . .”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty