Begins with Home invites you to Stories of Home, a premiere and celebration of seven new short videos from our Housing Justice Storytelling Initiative, on Tuesday, September 17 from 6-8 PM PT at the CZI Community Space in Redwood City.

Seven organizations working across the housing justice field participated in this initiative's pilot, led by All Home with support from NPH. Join us for the official premiere of these new stories and get inspired to use storytelling in the movement for housing justice. The event is free, but registration is required!

Earlier this summer, NPH’s 6th Bay Area Housing Internship Program (BAHIP) cohort completed their program! Throughout the program year, our interns gained the skills and hands-on experience needed to jumpstart a career in affordable housing real estate development and project management. View their graduation photos and graduate work portfolios!

Passing the Torch Cohort 7 recently started their year-long journey at their respective host agencies. These new BAHIPers look ahead to a year of activities, trainings, networking, and events led by NPH and our partners and other professionals, that cover real estate development, housing policy and advocacy, and soft skills training, such as communications, workplace culture, and more.

The Emerging Leaders Peer Network (ELPN) is actively recruiting for Steering Committee members! With the help of dedicated and collaborative individuals serving on our Steering Committee, ELPN has brought accessible and diverse programming to early and mid-career affordable housing practitioners and advocates since 2014. Could you be one of their next Steering Committee members?

ELPN Steering Committee Positions for 2025-26:

• Professional Development Co-chair (2 open positions)
• Social Events Co-chair (1 open position)
• Policy & Advocacy Co-chair (1 open position; preferred candidate is someone in non-profit development)

Note: ELPN is committed to advancing racial equity and inclusion in our trainings and events within our community, as well as in the affordable housing industry at large. We request all Steering Committee members to integrate an equity lens when designing our program and outcomes.

Most Bay Area households are impacted in some way by the region’s ongoing affordability crisis, but a new brief from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation explores how public funding has the power to address the crisis by increasing the supply of affordable housing, preserving existing affordable housing stock, and keeping renters stably housed.

The Terner Center brief highlights that at the heart of the crisis is a lack of housing supply and housing subsidy and how critical it is that the state and localities expand funding dedicated to affordable housing production. Use this new report to help make the case for affordable housing solutions in your community!

9/5, The Partnership: Planning and Financing All-Electric New Construction: Join The California Housing Partnership and the Association for Energy Affordability (AEA) for their four-part training series covering the essentials on electrifying new and existing affordable multifamily rental housing. This session will include an in-depth exploration of planning and financing all-electric new construction for affordable housing.

9/26, EBHO: Virtual Lunch & Learn – Disability and Housing Justice: Join East Bay Housing Organizations for an upcoming session on how people with disabilities can, or cannot, live in affordable housing. They will touch on the solutions to physical, financial, and policy barriers to getting this population housed.