We encourage members to join NPH for our Legislative Issues Committee Meeting (via conference call) on Thursday, June 4 to strategize opportunities ahead to continue making progress for affordable housing in California. Click here to register.

May is for Momentum! May is Affordable Housing Month and, this year, housing advocates and allies are finding new, creative ways to join together while maintaining physical distancing — to engage with our communities, foster conversation and understanding, and create progress for safe, stable, affordable homes.

Show your solidarity with affordable housing solutions by updating your Facebook profile photo for Affordable Housing Month! Changing your photo is easy: follow this link and update your photo. The filter automatically disappears at the end of the month. Show your network that we are in this together!

As a part of Affordable Housing Month, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo shares how housing is one of the most critical tools to protect our communities from the pandemic and fundamental to California’s health and success ahead. Click here to watch this first video of the NPH Affordable Housing Month video series! 

Do your part and help show that we’re in this together during Affordable Housing Month: Learn, get involved, & take action! Check out the Affordable Housing Month website for more events, a social media toolkit, and other resources to engage directly.  

Join NPH on May 28 for our upcoming virtual Brown Bag training, “Rethinking Construction: Exploring New Trends to Reduce Costs and Create Industry Solutions.” Built on trust, technology, and collaboration, construction integration offers opportunities and solutions to a high cost and outdated industry. Convened by Kenneth Jones from Landis Development, panelists will focus on the challenges, opportunities, and realities of industry changes and trends. 

On May 14, our local and state leaders will be sharing their vision for a stable, affordable, and equitable Bay Area future and news about the exciting new affordable housing regional coordination and entity that can bring that vision to light! Join the virtual conversation to learn what to expect ahead and opportunities with The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA). Tomiquia Moss of All Home will provide opening remarks and moderate the panel discussing this regional housing agency. BAHFA was created in 2019 by AB 1487 (Chiu), NPH sponsored legislation, to provide the 9-county Bay Area with the robust regional housing infrastructure and capacity needed to advance the “3 P’s” of production, protection, and preservation.

Please help us welcome Daniel Woods-Milligan, our new Fund Development & Membership Associate. Daniel is thrilled to be a part of the NPH team, where he will help coordinate fundraising activities and membership engagement. Before joining NPH, Daniel worked in community reentry for the formerly incarcerated, where he managed fund development and took a special interest in addressing barriers to safe and secure housing faced by young people with a history of incarceration. Daniel earned a BA in International Studies from the University of Iowa and a Masters of International Affairs from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.  He is an AmeriCorps and community college alumnus and the proud holder of a GED. 

May: EBHO Affordable Homes for All Virtual Gallery. Drawings, paintings, short videos, poems, chalk art – you create! Post it to the virtual art gallery by sharing your creation to Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #AffordableHousingMonth and tag East Bay Housing Organizations (@eastbayhousingorganizations). You can also send your creation to [email protected] to be posted via EBHO’s social media. 

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5/15: HLC Virtual Policy Breakfast. Join the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County to learn more about how our city, county, and state leaders are addressing the pandemic as it relates to housing, and their goals and efforts in a post COVID-19 world. 

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5/17: EBHO: Our First Church Partnership with Berkeley Food and Housing. Our First Church has been working with partners, including Berkeley Food and Housing Project and Youth Spirit Artworks, to match unhoused individuals with homes. Join EBHO and Our First Church Partnership to hear the inspiring stories and experiences of these residents and to join the conversation on how these efforts can be replicated on a wider scale.

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5/18: Housing Trust SV: Small Homes, Big Impact – Building and Financing an ADU, Part 1. Join Sonya Singha, Mortgage Loan Officer, Construction & ADU for part 1 of a 4 part series for Housing Trust’s Small Homes, Big Impact. The topic for this meeting is "Can I build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on my site and How do I pay for it?"

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5/19: Palo Alto Forward Presents Much Ado about ADUs: Part 2. Come and join Palo Alto Forward’s 4th annual ADU Workshop where a panel of renowned experts will be at hand to share their ADU stories and experience. Palo Alto Forward will walk you through financing and prefab options and share successes and pitfalls to avoid.

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5/19: Housing Trust SV: Empower Homebuyers SCC. Join Housing Trust’s Director of Homebuyer Programs Adria Quinones-Masur for an informative overview of Empower Homebuyers SCC and additional information regarding other housing assistance programs.

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5/19: Preserving Opportunity: Lessons from Local Efforts to Preserve Affordable Housing. Organized by Generation Housing, this webinar will discuss the importance of preserving naturally occurring affordable housing and how new partnerships between Burbank Housing, the City of Santa Rosa, and the City of Healdsburg are leading in these efforts to ensure affordability for local families. 

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5/20: Housing Trust SV: Affordable Housing Finance 101. Housing Trust’s Chief Lending Officer Fathia Macauley will give an inside look at how Housing Trust, public entities, private lenders and equity investors are working to create more affordable housing in our region. You’ll learn the basics of affordable housing finance, how homes go from pre-acquisition to move-in day, and how the industry is meeting the challenges caused by COVID-19 and the new economic climate.

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5/20: SV@Home Webinar: Affordable Housing on Faith-Based Surplus Lands. This webinar will provide an overview of how faith-based organizations develop underutilized real estate assets into affordable homes and other facilities and services such as community-based health clinics, HeadStart programs, child day care and more.

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5/21: SV@Home Webinar: At the Intersection: the 2020 Census and Affordable Housing. As of April 1, 2020, more than 70 million households across the country have completed the Census yet countless more have yet to do so. This webinar will explore the importance of the Census as it helps determine federal funding allocation local jurisdictions will receive for a variety of resources and services that benefit vulnerable communities.

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5/21: Housing Trust SV: Affordable Housing Finance 201: Making Cents of Tax Credits. Join Craig Mizushima, Housing Trust’s Chief Compliance & Risk Officer, for a workshop that will provide clarity and understanding for developers, nonprofit community development staff, planners, government officials and CRA bankers about the differences in the ability of LIHTC (Low Income Housing Tax Credits), NMTC (New Markets Tax Credits), and HTC (Historic Tax Credits) to generate funds for development.

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5/21: SV@Home Webinar: At the Intersection: the 2020 Census and Affordable Housing. Join experts who currently get funding for affordable housing projects, as well as advocates devising new ways, for a lively roundtable discussion with audience Q&A and small group discussions online. Whether you’re in the housing industry or a community advocate for affordable housing, we hope you’ll learn something you can use to help bring more affordable housing to Silicon Valley.

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5/22: HLC: Emergency Housing in COVID-19. Join Tomiquia Moss, founder of All Home,  and Mike Callagy, San Mateo County Manager, as they discuss the need for extremely-low income housing, and innovative strategies to increase resources for all vulnerable populations during COVID-19. 

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5/27: Generation Housing: Accessorize Your Home: How Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) Can Boost our Local Housing Supply and What Local Governments are Doing to Support Growth. ADUs are becoming increasingly popular as an important staple of our local housing diversity, but questions remain about how homeowners can benefit and how cities can enable greater growth in this section of the housing market. Generation Housing is joined by Renée Schomp, Director of The Napa Sonoma ADU Center, and David Guhin, Assistant City Manager for the City of Santa Rosa, to discuss resources and local policy.

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5/28: Generation Housing: In Conversation with Conor Dougherty, Author of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. This book talk and question & answer event with Conor Dougherty, New York Times economics reporter, will discuss the historical and current forces that have made housing so unaffordable in the Bay Area, and what communities can do about it.

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5/28: TransForm: Supercharge your Affordable Housing Advocacy with GreenTRIP Connect. This one-hour webinar will demonstrate how to model a proposed housing project, add deeper affordability, and explain the transportation benefits to decision makers, neighbors and developers.

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COALITION CORNER - 5/14: Livable Sunnyvale's Bulding Equitable and Resilisent Communities Meeting. During this lively discussion, Livable Sunnyvale will tackle questions like "what do housing and environmental justice have to do with public health?," and "how do we work towards a community that is resilient ecologically, socially, and economically?"

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