| | | Wednesday, January 6 Round Up: Important actions on RHNA, federal COVID relief, celebrate the activation of BAHFA, and update your email settings! |
| In this pivotal moment for our country and our democracy, we stand strong and unified for affordable housing and racial justice, and for equitable covid response and recovery. We urge you to recommit to working with NPH in 2021 to achieve our collective goals. |
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| | New RHNA Updates for 2021 | | |
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| Two actions you can take to advance racial equity and inclusion as the region plans for housing with the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Methodology: On Thursday, January 21 the ABAG Executive Board is slated to vote on a RHNA Methodology. We need your help showing support for an additional equity adjustment that would ensure that exclusionary jurisdictions receive their fair share of affordable housing. Action 1: Please submit a letter to the Executive Board and Regional Planning Committee in support of Option 8A with the equity adjustment. |
| | Action 2: We also need you to attend the ABAG Executive Board meeting on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 4:30PM and provide public comments in support of the methodology. Instructions on how to participate remotely can be found here. To get more involved, please contact NPH Regional Policy Manager Rodney Nickens at [email protected] to find our more. |
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| | Relfecting on the Success of BAHFA | | |
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| One of the great success stories of 2020 has been the creation and activation of the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, or BAHFA. This new, regional body will have the power to fundraise from the state, local, and federal sources and from the private sector to produce more affordable housing across the Bay Area. Through hard work, engagement, and collaboration with partners throughout the region, we have created an agency to facilitate a regional affordable housing infrastructure. With BAHFA activated, the Bay Area will now look to 2021 to set up the governance, staffing, and functional infrastructure to receive funds to address the housing crisis, funds that are needed like never before. We want to take a moment to thank MTC and ABAG for their hard work and leadership to get us to this point. |
| | Please email NPH Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement JR Starrett at [email protected] for more information on how to get involved. |
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| | Opt-In for State Preservation Notice Law |
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| | The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is launching a new online portal to implement the State Preservation Notice Law and its recent expansion. HCD is inviting owners, developers, and tenant organizations that have previously certified as qualified entities, and others that would like to become certified, to an informational webinar in early 2021 to walk through the new certification process. HCD is compiling a comprehensive distribution list of all potentially interested housing entities statewide. If you would like to receive more information, please fill out this form by today, January 6. | | |
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| | Resident Voter Education Advocacy Feedback |
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| During an unprecedented year, resident services staff & beyond stepped up to the plate and engaged and advocated for their communities! Over 27 member organizations and over 65 staff participated in voter education, voter registration, and advocacy training to support their residents to thrive. We even distributed over 75,000 pieces of voter engagement collateral! Let’s do the same in 2021. Share with us what kind of resident services advocacy opportunities you would like to see for 2021. We plan to provide more training, collateral and engagement opportunities for your resident services staff. Be a part of the conversation by providing feedback via our brief survey on voter education advocacy!
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| | Federal COVID Relief and Government Spending Bills |
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| | In the last days of 2020, the federal COVID relief and government spending bills were finally signed into law. While this falls far short of what our communities need, we want to lift up four significant achievements and acknowledge the tireless advocacy of our members and partners that made this possible: - $25 billion for emergency rental assistance
- an extension of the CDC eviction moratorium through January 31, 2021
- a permanent, minimum 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit rate increasing significant financing resources for tens of thousands of affordable homes
- Disaster Housing Credit for qualified states including California
In 2021, NPH will continue our work with all of you to ensure that people are housed, people can stay in their homes, and that we build affordable homes as essential infrastructure for our communities and for an equitable recovery. For more information from our national partners, please see: | | |
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| | | Thank you for the continued participation and support of NPH, our events and programs, and the affordable housing movement. We are so proud of what we were able to accomplish last year and are doubly excited for the events and programs we'll have in 2021! We'd like you to save the date for our 25th Annual Affordable Housing Leadership Awards event on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Be sure to check out our Events and Programs page to stay on top of all of our upcoming programs and trainings. | | |
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| | MEMBER EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Member Perk! Have an event you'd like featured on the website? Please complete this form. |
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| 1/8: EBHO - Faith Rooted Organizing Training Day 1. Join East Bay Housing Organization to re-ground ourselves in our commitments to faith-rooted, holistic movement work to create the world we long for. Register |
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[COALITION CORNER] 1/14: Terner Center - Innovations for Housing Affordability. This 90 minute symposium features the top 10 finalists from the 2020 Ivory Prize. They represent non-profit, private, and government organizations from across the United States with new approaches to build, regulate, or finance housing. The panels are designed to inspire entrepreneurs, housing professionals, and students to think creatively and to spark new connections, ideas, and solutions to the country’s housing affordability crisis. Register |
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