The Fresno City Council council approved funding for 24 tiny homes and an extension of the eviction protection program last week. But the council rejected five other housing proposals from Mayor Jerry Dyer, saying that more information was needed on Thursday. The rejected proposals: a voluntary rent stabilization program,...
What are the Top Concerns for Fresno Residents? Survey Says!
After two years in the top spot, worries about the COVID pandemic have been overtaken by other pressing concerns among city of Fresno residents. That's according to an annual survey from the Fresno County Civic Engagement Table. Housing has now replaced COVID-19 as the top worry among many local residents,...
A Nonprofit Company Favored by Tenants Eyes Buying Troubled Trails End
Residents of Trails End Mobile Home Park opposed to the sale of the park to a Stockton-based company with a history of steep rent hikes have found an operator more to their liking. And, at last week's Fresno City Council meeting, park resident Patricia Shawn and others spoke favorably...
Fresno Judge Delays Decision on Future of Trails End Mobile Home Park
Residents of troubled Trails End Mobile Home Park arrived at the B. F. Sisk Courthouse in downtown Fresno early Friday morning to hear news about the park's future. They packed the small courtroom hoping that the judge would decide not to sell the park to Stockton-based Harmony Communities. The...
Who is the Company Seeking to Buy Troubled Fresno Mobile Home Park?
With only one day left, residents of Trails End will soon find out whether their mobile park will get a new owner – a transaction many of them vigorously oppose. Harmony Communities, a Stockton-based firm that buys mobile home parks and manufactures tiny homes and trailers, wants to buy...
Madera Celebrates Bringing More Affordable Housing to Downtown
As the need for affordable housing sky-rockets in California, some communities are examining all types of potential spaces to house families. In the city of Madera's case, officials zeroed in on two abandoned parking lots in the heart of downtown to build an affordable housing complex. After beginning construction...
Can City Hall Make Housing More Affordable and Ease Homelessness?
The Fresno City Council will be briefed on 15 housing policies that could go to the city council this month, with the goal of making Fresno housing more affordable, and easing homelessness. Among these 15 policies, rent control, fair chance housing, and establishing a community land trust have been...
Fresno Rents Drop. Is This a Trend or a Blip?
Fresno's soaring rental prices seem to be leveling off after months and months of sharp increases. Will they continue to go down? That might depend on the impact of the Omicron variant and how the government responds to it. Fresno Sees Small Dip In Rents In 2021, in large...
Opinion: Housing Reform Bill Would Right Some of Redlining’s Wrongs
Misperceptions about proposed land use reforms in Senate Bill 9 — which would make it legal to build duplexes in California — paint an entirely inaccurate picture of developers rushing into middle- and working-class communities of color to tear down homes and build expensive apartments in their place. To the...
California’s Affordable Housing Efforts Meet Wall of Union Resistance
California lawmakers introduced several bills this year that would rezone empty strip malls and big-box stores across the state to allow for new housing development without undergoing lengthy and costly local approvals. Two are sailing through the Legislature. The other died early on. A key difference? The successful bills had...