Issues: Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing:
San Diego Union-Tribune

ARTICLES / COLUMNS
Needed: more housing choices
for all San Diegans
By Ken Sauder, Chair of the San Diego Housing Federation
Article, June 22, 2006
Buying a home may be the American dream, but it's pure fantasy for too many workers in San Diego who struggle to even find affordable rent.

Harvard report sees no losses from slowed sales
By Emmet Pierce
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Article, June 9, 2006
Southern California's housing boom is running out of steam, but the slowing pace of sales won't erode the huge gains in equity that many homeowners have realized in recent years, says a report by Harvard University.

The not-so-great outdoors:
More than 2,300 homeless agricultural workers, others said to be living in canyons of San Diego County
By Leslie Berestein
Article, June 4, 2006
More than 2,300 homeless agricultural workers, others said to be living in canyons of San Diego County

Fixing the inclusionary housing law
By Martin Akinfosile, Donald Cohen and Richard Lawrence
Article, May 30, 2006
The San Diego City Council has an opportunity to affirm its commitment to solving the affordable housing crisis for the city's working families.

Mid-income housing targeted
By Lori Weisberg
STAFF WRITER
Article, April 16, 2006
Housing in San Diego County increasingly targets households either at the lower rung of the income ladder or those at the high end, leaving middle-income workers feeling like they have nowhere to turn.

Students share illuminating studies of urban issues in the real world
By Roger M. Showley
STAFF WRITER
Article, April 9, 2006
Nico Calavita, a public administration professor at both San Diego State and the University of California San Diego, had a sobering message in his recent address to this year's crop of UCSD urban studies students:

Big market can thwart affordable housing
By Alan J. Heavens
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Article, April 2, 2006
PHILADELPHIA – Even when you're trying to make housing affordable, a booming real estate market can continually thwart your efforts.

Working families see little hope for homes
By Roger M. Showley
STAFF WRITER
Article, March 23, 2006
Despite more than five years of sometimes frenzied home buying, a broad range of American middle-class families have not improved their homeownership levels and Californians have fallen even further behind, two reports concluded yesterday.

High housing prices helped slow population growth last year
By Lori Weisberg
STAFF WRITER
Article, March 3, 2006
California's population growth last year continued to slow as more people exited the state than moved here, fueled in part by the steady rise in already high housing prices.

The free-market fix:
With more supply, housing crisis disappears
Article, January 22, 2006
The stunning jump in California housing prices in recent years may have enriched homeowners, but it has a huge downside. When starter homes cost $400,000, homeownership can seem an impossible dream. Many people, especially new college graduates looking to start careers, have had to leave the state or accept awful commutes.

Rising costs push apartments out of reach
By Stephen Ohlemacher
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Article, January 8, 2006
The stunning jump in California housing prices in recent years may have enriched homeowners, but it has a huge downside. When starter homes cost $400,000, homeownership can seem an impossible dream. Many people, especially new college graduates looking to start careers, have had to leave the state or accept awful commutes.