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Join Housing Long Beach for an all day training and leadership development session. Afternoon workshops will grow your skills to impact change in Long Beach...
By CSULB Senior Seminar Reporter Rabiya Hussain
Every morning before Evangelina Ramirez leaves for work, she cleans the house in a meticulous manner so that everything is where it belongs...
Andrew “Society” Bigelow • Silicon Valley De-Bug
Andrew “Society” Bigelow reflects on his experience walking on the 30 mile “March to Heal the Valley.”..
The nationwide economic crisis may or may not be becoming a distant memory, but a housing crisis still exists within the city of Long Beach...
From the Atlantic Cities by EMILY BADGER
The housing crisis sounded all kinds of alarms for policymakers and the public about what happens when families can’t afford their homes, or when they lose the stability that a secure home provides...
Produced by Michelle Zenarosa
Affordable housing is a constant struggle for many who live in Long Beach...
Rat infestations, high rents and overcrowding—these are just some of the housing issues that some residents in Long Beach face, according to Housing Long Beach (HLB), a local non-profit...
Housing Long Beach is a community organization working to improve, preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing for the well-being of Long Beach residents through community organizing, policy work and systems change...
Read more at the Long Beach Press-Telegram
By Kerry Gallagher, executive director of Housing Long Beach
Budgets reflect our values, in both positive and negative ways...
According to a report from the community advocate Housing Long Beach, “Nearly half of Long Beach renters spent more than 35% of their income on rent—forcing almost 130,000 residents to choose between rent, food, and medical expenses each month.”..
By Samantha Mehlinger – Staff Writer, Long Beach Business Journal
Housing Long Beach (HLB) is advocating priorities to be included in the city’s updated Housing Element draft, which is being reviewed by the city’s planning commission and released to the public June 20...
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Thousands of families here are being financially stretched to their breaking point due to rental costs that are out of sync with what the average resident can afford, according to recently released city data — and the job outlook over the next seven years doesn’t suggest that will change anytime soon...
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