California Affordable Housing Handbook Author:Alex Sanchez, Leslye Corsiglia, Iglesias The Affordable Housing Handbook was written by California redevelopment professionals and published by the California Redevelopment Association to offer practical suggestions on increasing the supply of affordable housing in California and other parts of the United States. The authors and publishers hope this book will prove valuable to practit... more »ioners and will stimulate dialogue regarding effective ways to produce affordable housing. We believe that increasing the supply of affordable housing is critical to all of our communities because affordable housing: maintains a community's competitiveness and is critical to a vibrant economy, provides family stability and prevents homelessness, enables families to afford critical expenditures-proper food, clothing and medical care, returns consumer dollars to the economy-family budgets are less burdened by housing costs. The Introduction chapter presents the following: Description of redevelopment in California; Tax increment financing-growing source of affordable housing funds; Definition of U.S. and California's housing affordability standards; Summary of the current housing affordability gap; Synopsis of California's affordable housing needs.« less