RFA Opportunity
RFA Opportunity
The California Tribal Housing Accelerator Academy seeks to create a cohort of tribes to foster peer-to-peer learning. Apply to join this cohort.
Low- and moderate-income Californians —especially those from communities of color—are at serious risk of displacement due to the growing gap between wages and housing across the region.
We pair program and policy with financial tools to advance affordable housing solutions that are designed to keep families with low incomes in their homes and in resource-rich communities across northern California for generations to come. We center racial equity across all of our work to dismantle the legacy of systematic racism in housing, close the growing racial wealth gap, and celebrate the rich diversity of our California communities.
Some of our key programs include:
- Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA): protects current residents from displacement, preserving affordable housing and producing new affordable housing. We co-lead BAHFA and the development and implementation of pilot programs designed to support residents now, while positioning the region to secure catalytic resources that will sustain the work into the future.
- Preserving Affordable Homes: elevates preservation as a proven anti-displacement and affordable housing solution by providing technical assistance to public agencies, housing developers and community-based organizations. We develop policies, foster cross-sectoral collaboratives and trainings, and advocate for increased funding, financing tools, and innovation at the local, regional, and state level.
- Climate-Sustainable and Equitable Communities: builds partnership and unlocks resources to create thriving, affordable, climate-smart communities while improving the health and financial well-being of low-income communities across California. Programs include the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program, which has brought more than $3.2 billion to advance ambitious equitable housing and transportation investments.
- Central Valley Housing Initiatives: facilitates local and regional cross-sector collaboratives to advance housing solutions across the Central Valley’s eight counties, a region that has faced historic disinvestment and unique housing challenges compared to cities on the coast. Rooted in community-voice and data, our goal is to mitigate displacement risk and produce and preserve affordable housing through programmatic and policy interventions
- State and Regional Policy: builds coalitions and advocates for policies that center the needs of those disproportionately impacted by the housing crisis. Efforts include partner sustainability, reaching regional housing production goals, a next-generation regional transit-oriented communities’ policy, a statewide agenda for preservation, and state and regional ballot measures for affordable housing funding.
