Affordable Homeownership

October 1, 2025

Keeping Our Children in California: Hertzberg on the Middle-Class Homeownership Act

Former California Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg shares his call to championing the proposed Middle-Class Homeownership and Family Home Construction Act, a 2026 ballot initiative aimed at expanding housing opportunities for middle-income Californians. Calling it a “war for the middle class,” Hertzberg emphasizes its goal: enabling working families and their children to build wealth and remain in California.

December 16, 2025

Habitat Los Angeles’ Erin Rank on Disaster Recovery and Homeownership

In conversation, Erin Rank, President & CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, reflects on her 25+ years of leadership transforming Habitat LA from an all-volunteer, one-home-at-a-time nonprofit into one of the region’s most significant builders of affordable homeownership.

August 7, 2025

California Insurance Crisis Panel: The State of the Insurance Industry

TPR covers a timely and important panel discussion—“The State of the Insurance Industry”—convened by Capitol Weekly and the UC Student and Policy Center. The panel explored how California’s insurance landscape is evolving in response to escalating climate-related risks, with a particular focus on the impact of recent wildfires in the Los Angeles region.

October 23, 2019

US Rep. Earl Blumenauer Argues for a Reset & Reevaluation of Federal Housing Programs

US Rep. Blumenauer offers his Congressional perspective on our nation’s housing crisis, the scale and complexity of which he argues demands affirmative federal action.

September 15, 2019

US Rep. Earl Blumenauer's Plan for Reversing Federal Housing Failures and Unlocking Opportunity

Congressman Earl Blumenauer calls for a new federal approach to ease the nationwide affordable housing crisis.

August 25, 2019

Charles Loveman: Unlocking The Market for Affordable Homeownership with Private Capital

Charles Loveman explains the historical role that subsidized demand played in spurring housing production and the value of low to moderate-income affordable homeownership development.

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