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Volume 26, Issue 10 - October 31, 2017

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Jerry Brown signs new California affordable housing laws

Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed a robust package of housing legis-lation aimed at addressing California's unprecedented affordability crisis.

"These new laws will help cut red tape and encourage more afforda-ble housing, including shelter for the growing number of homeless in Cali-fornia," Brown said in a statement.

He signed the bills at the Hunter's View public housing project in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, with the Bay Bridge as a backdrop.

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A portrait of housing NIMBY-ism in California

Mercury News

As poll after poll finds that housing costs are driving Californians to pack up and move, a new survey paints a detailed portrait of the anti-growth mindset that has been widely blamed for the short supply of homes underlying the problem.

What the survey found surprised veteran pollster Mark Baldassare: Nearly two-thirds of adults in California - and 70 percent in the Bay Area - favor building in their cities to meet the need.

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California housing plan is a dud, but local rules are biggest problem

Orange County Register

Perhaps it's the sign of Capitol hubris, but lawmakers in the waning days of the legislative session touted their "housing package" as a big part of the solu-tion to California's ongoing housing "crisis." It's an actual crisis.

Prices and rents are so high that they lead to an exodus of our kids to low-er-cost states. It depresses job creation, as companies avoid locating in places where their employees cannot afford to live. Housing is the prime reason Califor-nia has the nation's highest poverty rate, at more than 20 percent, using the Census Bureau's cost-of-living-adjusted measure.

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Why Housing Is Unaffordable in California

Wall Street Journal

Democrats in Sacramento celebrated earlier this month when they passed a raft of bills intended to redress California's so-called housing crisis. Sorry to spoil the party, but their legislation will do little to address the real problem and could even make things worse for poor and middle-income residents.

Like so many of the state's problems, the crisis has political and regulatory origins. California's housing prices have always been high, but the gap has grown amid an increasing mismatch between supply and demand. Between 1950 and 1970, home prices were about 30% above the national average. By 1980 that had widened to 80%. In 2015 it was 150%.

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Realtors forecast modest gains in home prices, sales in 2018

Orange County Register

California's housing recovery is projected to continue for a sixth straight year in 2018, but gains will be more modest than in the past, according to the California Association of Realtors housing forecast released Thursday, Oct. 12.

The median price of an existing house will increase 4.2 percent to $561,000 next year, compared with a projected increase of 7 percent in 2017.

Sales will rise 1 percent to 426,200 transactions, somewhat weaker than the 1.3 percent gain projected for this year.

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Labor got higher wages in California's housing deal. Will affordable homes still be built?

Sacramento Bee

After a decades-long battle with California's building industry, developers who want to fast-track housing production - especially in cities that have not built enough housing to keep pace with rising demand - will be required to pay higher wages and benefits to construction workers beginning Jan. 1.

Five of 15 housing bills signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown this year in-clude so-called prevailing wage rules for employers and contractors to pay laborers higher wages and benefits for new construction projects.

The requirements, reached after more than a year of negotiations between powerful labor groups and state Democratic lawmakers, represent the biggest ex-pansion of union-backed pay mandates for construction workers since the late 1990s.

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Santa Rosa housing scarce before the fire - what now?

SF Gate

The fires that destroyed at least 2,000 homes and other structures in the North Bay could put more upward pressure on rents but also cause buyers to think twice before purchasing a home in the ravaged region.

In June, voters in Santa Rosa narrowly rejected a measure that would have implemented rent and eviction controls. As in many Bay Area cities, rents there have been rising because the supply of new homes has not kept up with demand, which in Sonoma County is being driven largely by the growing industries of tour-ism, wine, beer and cannabis.

The rental vacancy rate in Sonoma County last year averaged 2.3 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in California and 5.9 percent nationwide, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

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San Diego may soften park construction requirements to spur more housing

San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego would get fewer new parks but existing parks would get more amenities under proposed policy changes that aim to accelerate construction of affordable housing.

City Councilman Scott Sherman, who has been spearheading efforts this year to address the city's housing crisis, is proposing to soften parks construction obligations that housing developers face.

Projects proposed near Balboa Park, Mission Bay Park or one of the city's other re-gional parks would begin getting credit for their proximity to those parks, which hasn't been part of the city's formula for determining developer obligations.

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Affordable Housing Crisis

KQED News

Economists have used the term "full employment" to describe the Bay Area's job market, and the region has a reputation of having plenty of jobs. Take Santa Clara Coun-ty: The unemployment rate hovers around 3.9 percent.

But the county actually lost jobs in August - 3,000, according to the state Employ-ment Development Department. The San Francisco-San Mateo area saw a decline of 2,000 jobs during the same period.

Robert Kleinhenz, executive director of research for Beacon Economics, says the decline might give us a window into how the housing crisis is affecting job growth. "We think that it's a binding constraint on growth in the labor force," he explains, "and in turn growth in the overall economy."

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Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability

CATO Institute

Local zoning and land-use regulations have increased substantially over the dec-ades. These constraints on land development within cities and suburbs aim to achieve var-ious safety, environmental, and aesthetic goals. But the regulations have also tended to reduce the supply of housing, including multifamily and low-income housing. With reduced supply, many U.S. cities suffer from housing affordability problems.

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Forecast: California home prices will continue to rise in 2018

Los Angeles Times

Home prices in California will continue to increase next year, but at a slower pace, said a forecast released Thursday by the California Association of Realtors.

The median price of a home is expected to rise 4.2 percent in 2018 to $561,000, less than the expected 7.2 percent increase this year.

While the forecast from the Realtor group did not include specific San Diego Coun-ty estimates, researchers said the figures should be similar to the state total because Southern California represents the state's biggest housing market.

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State must fulfill voter mandate to fund school construction

East Bay Times

Research shows that school facilities have a significant, positive impact on school culture, academic performance, student attendance, and teacher retention and job satis-faction.

Students need facilities that, for example, have working air-conditioning, upgrad-ed security and electrical systems, and modern classroom infrastructure that supports technology.

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Don't neglect middle class in California's housing crisis

Sacramento Bee

As I look out the window of my California Housing Finance Agency office in down-town Sacramento at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, I see a lot of cars.

Filled with public employees, teachers, nurses and construction workers, the cars aren't going to nearby homes. They are lining up to jump on the freeway and drive to the distant homes their drivers can afford. These are middle-income, working families who can't find housing in the region's most important job center. And this isn't just a Sacra-mento problem, it's a California problem.

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With 5% of its housing destroyed by fire, Santa Rosa faces wrenching questions about its future

Los Angeles Times

The most destructive wildfire in California history has left Santa Rosa at a fateful crossroads.

The city lost 3,000 homes - fully 5% of its housing stock - in the fire. Thousands remain displaced, and many are not sure where they will end up or whether they can continue to afford living in wine country, where housing is expensive and in chronically short supply.

"Nobody has been through this before," Mayor Chris Coursey said Monday. "We had a housing problem three weeks ago; now we have housing problem minus 3,000 more houses."

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2017 Board of Directors

Brent McCaffrey, Chairman Matt Smith, Secretary/Treasurer

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DIRECTORS

Arakel Arisian

Arisian Group

Greg Bardini

Morton & Pitalo

John Bonadelle

Bonadelle Neighborhoods

John A. Bonadelle

Bonadelle Neighborhoods

Terry Broussard

Broussard Associates

Nick Bruno

Valley Development Company

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Lennar

Deborah Coe

Baker Manock & Jensen

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R. M. Covington Homes

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D R Horton

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Bob Dillon

Gary McDonald Homes

Ed Dunkel

Precision Civil Engineering

Dennis Gaab

Century Communities

Zach Gomes

KB Home

Stan Harbour

Harbour & Associates

Jeff Harris

Wilson Homes

James Jimison

Century Communities

Ash Knowlton

McCaffrey Homes

Gary McDonald

Gary McDonald Homes

Sarah Oliveira

Wathen Mansionette Homes

Mike Pickett

Don Pickett & Associates

Jeff Reid

McCormick, Barstow

Brad Roznovsky

The Roz Group

Carl Swanson

Housing Capital Company

Ron Wathen

QK

Leo Wilson

Wilson Homes

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Vice President - Membership - Donna Measell

Motivational Systems, Inc.

Treasurer - Linda Pickett

Don Pickett & Associates

Secretary - Charlene Crabtree

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Directors

Donna Giannetta

Gary Giannetta, Civil Engineer

Sheri Mitcheltree

Patti Wasemiller

Valley Pacific Builders

Laura Wilson

Wilson Homes

Calendar of Events

November

1 BIA Board of Directors—8:45 am—265 E. River Park Circle, Fresno

6 PWB Paint Night—6:00 pm—Sublime Time, 1419 M St., Fresno

8 BIA Annual Membership Meeting - 11:30 am—The Palms Restaurant, Fresno

14 PWB Membership/Executive Board—12:00 noon—2695 N. Fowler, Ste. 101, Fresno

18 BIA/Clovis Committee—9:00 am—Clovis Police/Fire Department HQ—Exec. Conf. Rm.

22 BIA/FMFCD Committee—9:00 am—5469 E. Olive, Fresno

23-24 BIA OFFICE CLOSED for Thanksgiving