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Washington, DC - March 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Financial Services Committee and a top congressional advocate for affordable housing, reintroduced H.R. 1209, The Section 8 Voucher Reform Act (SEVRA), late last week. The bill would reform the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, which provides rental housing assistance to 2 million low-income American families

SACRAMENTO, CA - March 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Housing production in California continued to decline in February as builders pulled fewer permits for new homes when compared to January and when compared to February of 2010, the California Building Industry Association announced today

LAS VEGAS, CA - March 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Dozens of volunteer contractors renovated the home of a Las Vegas family whose 16-year old daughter is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that is increasingly forcing her to be wheelchair bound. The renovation project, organized by the philanthropic organization AGC Charities, Inc., was the group's second annual Operation Opening Doors effort.

Washington, DC - March 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The House of Representatives voted today to end the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), which Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) created and which President George W. Bush signed into law three years ago under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA). Last week, House Republicans also voted to end the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Short Refinance Program and the Emergency Homeowners Relief Program (EHRP), the latter of which Congresswoman Waters worked to include in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

WASHINGTON D.C. - March 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) --Today Congresswoman Laura Richardson (CA-37) introduced an amendment to H.R. 861, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Termination Act, which would avoid the abrupt end of the NSP, a program that has helped rescue communities devastated by the national financial crisis.

IRVINE, CA - March 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture and Planning, is pleased to announce that it is providing architectural design services for a new 103,255-square-foot mixed-use retail and student housing building to be developed by Hanover Pacific, LLC at the University of La Verne (ULV) in La Verne, Calif. Located on the site of a former campus parking lot, the new building will add 378 beds and approximately 8,300 square feet of ground floor retail for a new university bookstore. A ground breaking ceremony will be held on the site at the end of March to celebrate the commencement of construction.

San Francisco, CA - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has expanded its Affordable Housing practice on the West Coast with the arrival of new partner Tuan Pham. Mr. Pham joins Nixon Peabody’s San Francisco office from Goodwin Procter where he also served as the hiring partner for the San Francisco office and a co-chair of the West Coast Diversity Committee.

LAGUNA HILLS, CA - March 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Muller Company, a full service real estate company specializing in management, investment and development of commercial real estate in the western United States, announced today that the firm has recently started construction on the $3 million renovation of its "mid-century modern" landmark building, the Taj Mahal Medical Center building, formerly known as the Taj Mahal, located at 23521 Paseo de Valencia in Laguna Hills, Calif.

Washington, DC - March 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) --Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Financial Services Committee, took Committee Republicans to task today for voting to defund two programs that help struggling homeowners.

Los Angeles, CA - March 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Foursquare Foundation announced today its ground breaking for the construction of a new $10 million richly-appointed Foursquare Senior Living residential community in one of Los Angeles’ most historic neighborhoods, Echo Park. Designed by the architectural firm KTGY Group, Inc., this new eco-friendly, pedestrian- and transit-oriented, 1.24-acre urban in-fill redevelopment project replaces some older housing units with 75 affordable senior apartment homes. Situated directly across from Echo Park, one of the city’s most iconic settings, Parkview Living, A Foursquare Senior Living community, will help mitigate the soaring demand for quality affordable housing to active seniors 62 years of age and over. Parkview Living, A Foursquare Senior Living community will be located across the street from the 88-year-old Angelus Temple, which is home to the Foursquare Church.

SACRAMENTO, CA - March 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- California homebuilders pulled permits for fewer new homes in January when compared to the same month a year earlier, the California Building Industry Association announced today.

San Marcos, CA - March 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Work has completed on the new, $37 million, Multidisciplinary Building constructed by C.W. Driver on the campus of Palomar College in San Marcos, Calif. The 111,000 SF, three-story structure in the San Diego County town took 25 months to complete. C.W. Driver, a premier builder of higher education facilities in the Western U.S. since 1919, managed the project from preconstruction through commissioning for the Palomar Community College District

Washington, DC - February 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) reintroduced her legislation from the 111th Congress today that would make key investments in affordable public housing. H.R. 762, the Public Housing Reinvestment and Tenant Protection Act of 2011, contains provisions to revitalize housing units and neighborhoods; address one-for-one replacement issues; empower housing authorities to make reforms; and to create jobs, with support from Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), her colleagues on the Financial Services Committee. She issued the following statement

SACRAMENTO, CA - February 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- California housing affordability increased slightly in the fourth quarter of 2010 with all but one of the state’s 28 metropolitan areas included in the report showing increases in affordability, the California Building Industry Association announced today

February 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilmember Herb Wesson attended today the unveiling of the first building - the Vineyard Recreation Center - to be retrofitted by workers trained through the Green Retrofit Workforce Program. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the first-in-the nation, workforce development retrofit program targets workers from low-income communities and trains them with the skills they need to obtain good-paying, green jobs.“The Green Retrofit Workforce Program is a national model for how to build a specialized, highly-trained workforce that can retrofit municipal buildings to drastically reduce our City’s carbon footprint,” Mayor Villaraigosa said. “After all, electricity use within buildings accounts for almost one-third of our greenhouse gas emissions -- emitting almost 17 million tons of greenhouse gas a year into the air we breathe.”

February 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Housing Authority President and CEO Rudolf C. Montiel joined Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Congresswomen Maxine Watters, Laura Richardson, the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) , Affordable Housing CDC, Inc. (AHCDC), Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, local leaders to celebrate the grand opening of Dolores McCoy Villa Apartments.McCoy Villa apartments is a new low-income housing development in Watts. The 64 supportive housing units for large homeless families are fully furnished and offer a range of supportive services, including case management, budget counseling, employment training/placement, academic counseling, access to health care/substance abuse services, and assistance focused on families and independent living skills

February 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On January 26 the Los Angeles Worksource Investment Board (WIB) recognized the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles with its prestigious Four Star Performance Award. This is the third consecutive year that HACLA receives the award. The award recognizes the outstanding Workforce Investment Act performance for program year 2009-2010.

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- First-time buyer housing affordability matched or set new record-high levels in all regions of the state during the fourth quarter of 2010, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today. Led by historic-low interest rates and a slight decline in home prices, housing affordability surpassed or maintained current levels in both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year comparisons statewide.

San Mateo, CA - February 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The state of the local housing market is a highly scrutinized subject matter as the housing market is a barometer of the financial health of San Mateo County. To bring answers, clarity and a bit of a crystal ball to see what is in store for the housing market in 2011, the San Mateo County Association of REALTORS® is hosting California Association of REALTORS® Chief Economist, Leslie Appleton-Young, along with Mike Simonsen, CEO, Altos Research to provide a housing forecast at the “Future of the Housing Market and Real Estate Technology” conference on Thursday, February 17th at the San Mateo Elks Lodge from 9:30 am-4:00 pm

East Bay, CA - February 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Green City Lofts Owners Association Selects MERIT for Property Management Services MERIT will provide property management services for the 64-unit mid-rise community in Emeryville, CA