California Community Builders

Thank you to everyone that came out and made our first annual Dream Builders awards dinner & celebration a success! The CCB team will be sharing photos and thank-yous over the next few days. Today, we want to say thank you to all of our amazing speakers - especially Rockette Richardson Ewell, Herman Gallegos, and John Gamboa - and guests that were able to join us in Berkeley! Our closest guest rode his bike from a few blocks away while we had two guests fly in from Miami and Washington, DC, respectively. Regardless of how far they traveled, we appreciate and are grateful to all of our friends and family for joining and making it a very special evening! This event wouldn't have been possible without our amazing sponsors, so we would also like to give a big thank you to our presenting sponsor U.S. Bank, and very generous event sponsors JPMorganChase, Comerica Bank, Home Starter, California Emerging Technology Fund, HR&A Advisors, Oportun,First Citizens Bank, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, W Strategies LLC, UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS), REGENERATE CALIFORNIA INNOVATION, and Ventura County Community Development Corporation. For all pictures, videos, and Dream Builder details visit the event page at https://lnkd.in/gXvXvXY4!

Thank you to everyone that came out and made our first annual Dream Builders awards dinner & celebration a success! The CCB team will be sharing photos and thank-yous over the next few days. Today, we want to say congratulations one more time to California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, our California Dream Builder awardee, Laura V. Arce, our Community Dream Builder awardee, and Muhammad T. Alameldin, our Future Dream Builder awardee! This event wouldn't have been possible without our amazing sponsors, so we would also like to give a big thank you to our presenting sponsor U.S. Bank, and very generous event sponsors JPMorganChase, Comerica Bank, Home Starter, California Emerging Technology Fund, HR&A Advisors, Oportun,First Citizens Bank, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, W Strategies LLC, UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS), REGENERATE CALIFORNIA INNOVATION, and Ventura County Community Development Corporation. For all pictures, videos, and Dream Builder details visit the event page at https://lnkd.in/gXvXvXY4!

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Thank you to everyone that came out and made our first annual Dream Builders awards dinner & celebration a success! The CCB team will be sharing photos and thank yous over the next few days and, to kick it off, here's a clip from the videos that Attorney General Rob Bonta and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra graciously made to welcome attendees! https://lnkd.in/gRsPG3Hx For the full video and pictures of the evening visit the Dream Builders webpage! https://lnkd.in/gXvXvXY4

Homeownership is one of the best tools for fixing race and ethnic wealth gaps in the United States, but according to new research, Black and Latino home seekers have a harder time accessing mortgages and are more likely to receive high-cost loans.  Read the policy brief from authors Kathryn Greenler, Jose Loya and Adam Briones to learn how this impacts racial inequality across California: https://lnkd.in/gQpCt--Y

🔊 NEW PAPER Announcement! Today, I published an article in Buildings & Cities with 7 co-authors from RMI, Berkeley Lab, and Terner Center for Housing Innovation: "US urban land-use reform: a strategy for energy sufficiency." Key points: ✦ Climate action requires limiting total energy and materials use while supporting human wellbeing ("sufficiency"). Ending exclusionary zoning policies -- which ban more efficient ways of living as well as driving the housing crisis -- is a key pathway to sufficiency in the US. ✦ Land use patterns differ across states, but every state has some neighborhoods in which people can drive much less than average while meeting their daily needs. In 47 states, these neighborhoods are still lightly built out, with less than 33% of housing bigger than a fourplex. So we can add housing in car-light neighborhoods even without building high-rises. ✦ In an ambitious scenario in which all 50 states solve the housing shortage while building in car-light neighborhoods, ~70 million tons of annual carbon pollution could be avoided in a decade. This is ~65% of the savings from extending CA's EV policies nationwide. Read the open-access article at https://lnkd.in/g9FdeRMi. And stay tuned for a Terner Center blog contextualizing for CA. 🙇🏽♂️Jackie Lombardi Raghav Muralidharan Jacob Korn Jeetika Malik Tyler Pullen Max Wei Tianzhen Hong

Great article from Coby L. (via Noah Smith's equally great substack) on why its so hard to achieve something most advocates and politicians agree on: more small developers building small projects. It's a very interesting, thorough overview of the structural impediments small builders face! https://lnkd.in/dxTdjJus "The cities of our dreams were not built by institutions, but by industrious, proud, maverick developers who came in all shapes and sizes. Neighborhoods felt neighborhoodly because the mom and pops who built and owned the buildings lived close by. They had a vested interest in making them as good and welcoming as possible." 

CCB and UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS) are pleased to invite you to an exciting housing & homeownership convening on October 9th in Sacramento: Home Ownership Means Equity! RVSP today: https://lnkd.in/gjzVa2Xv Join us at the Capitol Event Center for a day filled with insightful panels, networking opportunities, and expert speakers including: Elizabeth de Leon Bhargava, Esq. of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Esmeralda López, J.D. of UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS), Muhammad T. Alameldin of Terner Center for Housing Innovation, Debbie Arakel of Habitat for Humanity California, Michelle Boyd of Terner Labs, Adam Briones of California Community Builders, Jordan Panana Carbajal of California YIMBY, Xiomara Cisneros of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sosan Madanat, Esq. of W Strategies LLC, and Michael Yarne of Black Oak Group!

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation is holding a great & needed webinar October 8th on construction defect reform - a significant impediment to building entry level homeownership. RSVP today! https://lnkd.in/g28HzxTE

"Many former Bay Area residents left the state entirely, moving to cheaper metros in Texas, Idaho and other Western states. Others moved further inland in search of affordable housing and more space, often to California’s hot Central Valley or to the fire-prone foothills of the Sierra Nevada." https://lnkd.in/dK-6iM2j