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Affordable Housing Resources
These links are compiled for your reference. If you know of any we should add, please email info@nonprofithousing.org.

HOUSING LINKS HIGHLIGHT:

Tax Credits Explained!
Enterprise Social Investment Corporation has put together this guide to give you everything you need to know about tax credits: www.enterprisecommunity.com/industryTaxCredit/index.html

Multifamily Green Building Guidelines
Alameda County Waste Management Authority (ACWMA) has developed green building guidelines for multifamily housing, with assistance from housing developers, architects, and project managers. The guidelines provide information about:

*appropriate measures to use in specific developments
*when to incorporate measures into the project schedule
*relative costs and benefits of specific measures
*where to get additional technical information or materials

Now you can purchase the 220-page bound edition online. NPH members receive a discount. Click here to buy now.

$12.50 per book - NPH members (Advocates, Professionals or Partners)
$22.50 per book - non-NPH members

For more information about the guidelines, contact the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, Karen Kho or Ann Ludwig at (510) 614-1699. You can also find more information at http://www.multifamilygreen.org.

ACWMA has also created a Materials Database that lists locally available products and services that correspond with the Multifamily Green Building Guidelines, as well as single-family residential guidelines. The database is currently available at http://www.build-green.org/guide.

Affordable Housing by Counties
http://www.hcd.ca.gov/ca/affrdble-housng.html

Association for Bay Area Governments
Contains information on housing and transportation needs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.abag.ca.gov/

Affordable Housing Design Advisor
Brings together experience and ideas from successful affordable housing projects all over the country, and the people who developed, designed and built them.
http://www.designadvisor.org

Bay Area Census web site
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/

Bazelon Center
A Washington, DC-based disability rights organization. A useful resource for fair housing issues.
http://www.bazelon.org/housing.html

California Department of Housing and Community Development
Information on funding sources and opportunities.
http://housing.hcd.ca.gov/hrc/bkmrk.htm

California Housing Partnership Corporation
http://www.chpc.net
CHPC provides financial consulting on tax credits, tax exempt bonds, and other affordable housing programs; preservation of at-risk affordable housing; training and technical assistance in affordable housing finance.

California Reinvestment Committee
The website for CRA activists!
http://www.calreinvest.org

California Senate Home Page
http://www.sen.ca.gov/

Center for Community Change
Contains updates and alerts on federal legislation on affordable housing and community development.
http://www.communitychange.org/

Code of Federal Regulations
Contains HOME program regulations.
http://www.hud.gov/cpd/home/homereg.html

EAH, Inc.
EAH is one of the largest and most respected nonprofit housing development corporations in the State of California. EAH has developed over 4,300 units and manages more than 5,400 units throughout California and in Hawaii.
http://www.eahhousing.org

Ecodura Furniture
Economical, durable and ecological furniture for low income housing facilities.
http://www.ecodura.com

Eden Housing
Eden Housing, Inc. revitalizes communities through an array of affordable housing development and management activities as well as social services that meet the needs of lower income people.
http://www.edenhousing.org

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Rebates and Financial Assistance
You may be eligible to take part in PG&E's energy efficiency rebate offerings and receive financial assistance on your PG&E bill. For more information, call PG&E's Smarter Energy Line at (800) 933-9555 or
click here.

Enterprise Foundation
A national nonprofit housing and community development organization. Contains useful journals and has an online Best Practices Database.
http://www.enterprisefoundation.org

Housing Assistance Council
A national nonprofit corporation that provides financing, technical assistance, program and policy analysis about rural affordable housing.
http://www.ruralhome.org

Housing California
A statewide affordable housing and homeless advocacy group. Contains updates and alerts on state legislation having to do with affordable housing, community development, welfare reform.
http://www.housingca.org

Housing Helpline: for housing referrals and emergencies - toll free (800) 273-6222.

HUDCLIPS
HUD's client information and policy systems site
http://www.hudclips.org/cgi/index.cgi

HUD User
HUD's office of policy development and research
http://www.huduser.org/

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
A national intermediary that channels resources to urban and rural communities.
http://www.liscnet.org

Marin Housing Council - Affordable Housing Tour
A visual tour of award-winning examples of affordable housing in the community.
http://housingcouncil.marin.org

Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition (MPHC)
Since 1970, MPHC has designed and built, or acquired and rehabilitated, over 5100 units of high quality affordable rental housing in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions.
http://www.midpen-housing.org

National Center for Homelessness and Poverty
http://www.nlchp.org

National Housing Institute
A national nonprofit that examines what does and does not work in community building. Contains information on national housing issues, research and reports, and the magazine Shelterforce.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues.html.

National Housing Trust
A national nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of existing affordable housing, particularly multifamily housing that is assisted, owned, or controlled by a federal agency. Offers consulting services to local housing agencies, nonprofits, community development corporations, and low income residents.
http://www.nhtinc.org

National Low Income Housing Coalition
A national membership association that is committed to organizing and advocate to ensure decent, affordable housing for everyone. Provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs. Contains research and reports and the weekly publication, Memo to Members, which provides federal legislative updates.
http://www.nlihc.org

Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center
Information and resources on fair housing issues.
http://www.pacdbtac.org/services.htm

Raising the Roof: California Housing Development Projections and Constraints.
Produced by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, this update takes a county-by-county look at California's projected housing needs through the year 2020, the constraints to meeting those needs, and the possible consequences of not meeting them. For all the stats, click here.

San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing
San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing is the lead city housing finance agency responsible for city funding of and program/project oversight of low-income multi-family, single-family and special use developments. Projects include rental and first time homeownership developments.
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/moh/index.htm

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)
TNDC has provided safe, service-enriched affordable housing in downtown San Francisco since 1981. Learn more about how their award-winning work contributes to solving the Bay Area's housing and homelessness crisis.
http://www.tndc.org

US Department of Housing and Community Development (HUD)
The federal agency responsible for national policy and programs that address the country's housing needs. Information on public housing, HUD budgets and programs, and rental and home buying assistance.
http://www.hud.gov




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