Affordable housing

Retiring baby boomers will intensify the affordable housing shortage unless public officials find a way to add significantly more low-cost homes to the market.

Proposition 10 would give local jurisdictions a freer hand to restrict rents, but critics say that would lead to property devaluations. Some see an effect regardless of whether the measure passes.

Freddie Mac made its first equity investment into a low-income housing tax credit fund in nearly a decade, through a partnership with Enterprise Community Investment.

If California voters approve Proposition 10 in November, the ramifications will be felt on the state's affordable housing, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday to streamline housing development around BART stations and ease the Bay Area's epic affordable housing problem at the expense of local officials' decision-making powers over land use.

The senator’s bill to reform the 40-year-old law and expand housing investments could gain clout as Democrats look to pick up congressional seats and she eyes a presidential run.

Lower corporate tax rates weakened the incentive for developers to use the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, which could prompt affordable housing construction to fall by as much as 40% by 2022, according to data aggregator Reis.

Advocates are seeking more federal funding for affordable housing. A federal investigation into the banks’ alleged manipulation of a popular tax-credit program can’t be helping their cause.

A former Federal Home Loan bank president argues that the system should limit its exposure to risky nonbanks.

The Bay Area's soaring housing costs are pushing poor people into neighborhoods where poverty and racial segregation are on the rise, a UC Berkeley study found.