email Sign Up   Three excerpts from today include HOUSING DEVELOPMENT  Affordable Housing Finance: Leading Developers Dig into the Mixed-Use Strategies  By Donna Kimura [2-5-21] // Four experienced developers share their approaches to these complex developments.    HOMELESSNESS   KCRA: Audit: California should track homeless spending, set policy  By Janie Har [2-11-21] // California has spent $13 billion in the last three years to tackle a massive homelessness problem likely to worsen with the pandemic, yet its approach is so fragmented and incomplete as to hinder efforts at getting people into stable housing, the state auditor said in a report released Thursday  FAIR HOUSING / EVICTION NBC: Biden administration extends housing protections to LGBTQ people By Jo Yurcaba [2-11-21] // Same-sex couples and transgender individuals disproportionately experience housing discrimination and will now have access to recourse under federal law.