An opportunity for regional affordable housing solutions is on the horizon! The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported on the Bay Area Housing Finance Agency’s (BAHFA) proposed regional bond measure, a measure that would authorize the issuance of either $10 billion or $20 billion in bonds to fund grants and loans that would preserve or create affordable housing in all nine Bay Area counties over a 10-year period.

👉 Show Your Support Head over to the campaign website to learn more about the regional bond, join the coalition, and endorse the campaign!

The 44th NPH Affordable Housing Conference is taking place Friday, October 6 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis! Together we’ll dive deep into smart solutions, effective strategy, and the ways we can come together to harness the power of our movement toward housing and racial justice.

Make an Impact: Sponsor the Conference! Your sponsorship, at any level, supports our ability to keep offering impactful programming like the NPH Conference, designed to strengthen and deepen our industry and help us all get on the same page toward winning strategy for the good of our Bay Area neighborhoods and communities!

Thank you to our early sponsors for supporting NPH’s critical work and making this event possible!

Don’t miss these upcoming learning and sharing opportunities:

• Join the Emerging Leaders Peer Network (ELPN) virtually for The Challenges of Leasing Up Higher Income Units and How Projects Have Overcome Them, happening Wednesday, August 2 from 12PM-1PM PT. With the advent of income averaging for Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects and new funding sources like CalHFA’s Mixed Income Program, more affordable housing projects are including units with income restrictions set above the previous standard of 60% of Area Median Income. These higher-income units present unique challenges to leasing up properties and maintaining targeted occupancy rates. Join us as leasing, development, and marketing staff discuss how these challenges have manifested, how they’ve planned for them, and what they’ve done to get units leased.
   
• Join us on Thursday, August 10 from 11:00AM-12:30PM PT for State Budget Round-Up — Final State Budget Agreement and Assessment for Future Fiscal Years as we examine the statewide ramifications of the budget and how we expect it to impact Bay Area affordable housing efforts and homelessness priorities.

7/27, EBHO: Regional Bond Info Session In 2024, East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) and their regional partners will be campaigning for a regional affordable housing bond measure across the entire nine-county Bay Area. Join EBHO to learn more about the exciting campaign to raise $10-20 billion for affordable housing!

8/15, Terner Center: California's Sliding Homeownership Ladder Homeownership has become increasingly out of reach for many Californians, and new data from the Terner Center indicates that the state lags far behind others in homeownership rates. Join them for a webinar as they dig into their recent work on the topic and identify potential solutions for reversing these trends.