| | | | | | Wednesday, May 27 Round Up: May Revise budget, NPH priority policies, Affordable Housing Month, & more. | | | | Legislative Updates & NPH Policy Priorities | | | | | | Governor Newsom releases revised state budget, Senate announces Housing Production Package. The Governor’s May Revise budget anticipates a steep and unprecedented reduction of revenue for the state of California, and has had critical implications on how lawmakers are approaching bills this session. The good news is that lawmakers at every level continue to recognize and prioritize the critical role of affordable housing in getting and keeping our communities healthy. The Governor demonstrated his continued commitment to affordable housing in his budget through: - Preservation of the $500 million expansion of the Low Income Housing Tax Credits
- $750 million federal pass-through funding to permanently acquire and convert hotel rooms to affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness through Project RoomKey
The Senate announced a housing production package that will prioritize solutions that make it easier to build smaller homes, including duplexes and fourplexes, as well as develop multi-family housing on commercially zoned land. Yet, as CalMatters reports, “Conspicuously absent from Senate Democrats’ housing package is any proposal that would devote new state dollars to building low-income housing or allow cities to beef up infrastructure to accommodate it.” The package is also missing affordable housing-specific legislation, such as NPH co-sponsored SB 899, which would empower churches and hospitals to more easily build affordable housing on their land. Housing is one of the most critical tools to protect our communities from COVID-19 AND the foundation for our region and state’s health and success ahead. NPH is committed to working with Pro Tem Atkins and legislative leadership to make the Senate housing package more representative of our state’s affordable housing needs. Fortunately, two NPH-sponsored bills are already gaining momentum. SB 899 (church lands bill) and AB 2058 (affordable housing preservation bill) unanimously passed out of their committees and now head to their respective Appropriations Committees. But we need your help demonstrating to lawmakers that affordable housing must be part of any housing package in order to respond and recover in our current public health and economic environment. | | | | AB 2058 support letters due Friday, May 29.
SB 899 support letters due Friday, June 12. | | 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. | | | | | | | | The United States Congress recently voted to approve the HEROES Act which included critical housing solutions that NPH members, partners, and supporters mobilized behind. Thank you to the 100+ organizations who signed onto our joint letter to Speaker Pelosi and the California Delegation, and the hundreds of supporters who added their signatures and stories to our petition. Your advocacy did not go unnoticed! Speaker Pelosi will be joining housing and homelessness advocates on Tuesday, June 2, for an NLIHC webinar to discuss the housing elements of the HEROES Act. | | | | The bill includes $100 billion for rental relief, $75 billion for mortgage relief, $11.5 billion in funding for the Emergency Service Grants, and an additional $10 billion for housing choice vouchers. Some of our critical asks, however, such as $10 billion for breakeven rental assistance for affordable housing and our tax credit priorities, were not included in this bill. NPH will continue to work with the Bay Area’s Congressional delegation to ensure that future stimulus bills reflect our members’ priorities. Get in touch with [email protected] on how you can get involved as the HEROES Act heads to the Senate and for future stimulus bill advocacy. | | | | | | Home means... As a part of Affordable Housing Month, NPH staff recently took time to share one item that represented what "home" meant for each of us. Take a look at what home means to our team then tell us what home means to you! #InThisTogether | | | | It's the final week of Affordable Housing Month. There's still time to show your solidarity and share your support for policies that ensure all our neighbors -- Black and White, Latinx and Asian, Native and newcomer -- have access to safe and stable housing. Check out the Affordable Housing Month website for events, a social media toolkit, and other resources to engage directly. | | | | | | | | Join NPH on Friday, June 12 for our upcoming virtual Brown Bag training, “Implementing New 3P’s Policy Tools.” Come discuss and demystify recent and new affordable housing policy and production tools, and breakdown how local jurisdictions and developers can apply these new tools to produce and preserve affordable housing and protect tenants and learn what's being discussed in the 2020 legislation session. | | | | | | | | | | NPH is excited to congratulate our 2019-2020 Bay Area Housing Internship Program (BAHIP) graduates! We want to thank the entire NPH community for your interest and support of BAHIP, especially while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. We’d like to invite you to share your advice with our newly grdauted cohort. Tweet your best advice with the hashtag #BAHIP — maybe it’s advice you received when you were first starting out, a word of wisdom from a mentor, or lessons you learned along the way. Let our graduates know that our community is excited to support their growth and leadership! | | | | | | | | MEMBER EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Member Perk! Have an event you'd like featured on the website? Please complete this form. | | | | | | | May is Affordable Housing Month! Affordable Housing Month concludes this weekend, and NPH is proud to work with our regional partners and members around the Bay Area to celebrate Affordable Housing Month and lead conversations, virtual events, and opportunities to engage. | | | | | | 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. Learn more | | | 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. Get tickets | | | | 5/27: The Kelsey: Inclusion Hour with California Senator Jim Beall. This Q&A with Senator Beall will speak to the challenges and benefits of seeing these two distinct topics as one, to achieve success in housing affordability, accessibility and inclusion. Register | | | 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. Register | | | | 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. Register here | | | 6/2: NLIHC: National Call on Coronavirus, Housing & Homelessness. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will join NLIHC's next national call on Coronavirus, Housing and Homelessness to talk about the HEROES Act, its essential housing and homelessness components, and the urgency of having the bill enacted. Register here | | | | | | Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
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