Click on the Working Group below to view the description, meeting times, and the group’s recent materials:

Legislative Issues Committee

Property Stewardship Working Group

Local Government Working Group

Resident Services Roundtable

Ad Hoc Working Groups

Housing Advocacy Network

Legislative Issues Committee

The NPH Legislative Issues Committee was formed in 1983 to discuss issues related to housing policy, funding, and programs on the regional, state, and federal levels. The group reviews program changes, regulation updates, and state and federal bill proposals as they arise, and makes preliminary recommendations to guide and inform NPH’s position on each issue. The group is convened on a monthly basis on the first Thursday of the month typically from 9:30am to 11:30am. At times, the committee meets for a longer period of time to accommodate longer agenda items such as reviewing bills and establishing legislative priorities.

Click here to download the 2011 Bill List.

Click here to download the NPH memo on redevelopment agencies and the proposed state budget

Click here to download NPH comments on draft reforms of the federal program for senior housing, known as Section 202, proposed by HUD.

Click here to download NPH's Formal Comment on the August 2010 Community Reinvestment Act Regulation Hearings

Click here to download National Housing Conference's Report, Government-Sponsored Enterprises and Multifamily Housing Finance: Refocusing on Core Functions

Click here to download National Housing Conference Policy Statement: Government Support for the Financing of Multifamily Rental Housing

Click here to download Building California's Future: An Economic and Fiscal Analysis of Housing Construction in the Golden State

Property Stewardship Working Group

The group is intended for Property or Asset Managers, as well as others who may be interested in these issues. We encourage both Property and Asset Managers to bring ideas for group topics, as well as ideas for how NPH can be most helpful. Dan Sawislak of Resources For Community Development is chair and housing consultant Cathy Craig assists with planning. This working group meets the fourth Thursday of every month from 2:00-4:00pm.

Property Stewardship Resources:

Below are the results of a survey report of property management in supportive housing commissioned by Enterprise, Corporation for Supportive Housing, and REDF (formerly The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund):
Powerpoint
Executive Summary
Full Report
Summary of Best Practices

ARRA Information
Overview of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Letter Advocating Ways to Maximize Use of Weatherization for Multifamily Housing
CA Energy Commission Powerpoint on Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants and State Energy Program
Allocation of EECBG in California Communities
HUD Green Retrofit Program Outline

Local Government Working Group

The Local Government Working Group was initiated in 2004 to provide NPH’s local government members with a forum for sharing ideas and best practices in local government housing policy. The Local Government Working Group provides a unique networking and professional development opportunity for housing staff in planning departments, redevelopment agencies, community development departments, housing authorities and other agencies that manage housing programs. The group is open to all NPH members with a particular emphasis on local government agency staff. The group meets quarterly.

NSP II HUD Webinar

Neighborhood Stabilization Program links:

HCD Stakeholder Presentation on the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

HCD NSP Action Plan

Useful links to foreclosure data:

Realtytrac: application to see foreclosure filings in CA

Dataplace: can get data and map a wide range of datapoints, including the percent of high interest loans

HUDs Neighborhood Stabilization Plan Data

 

Resident Services Roundtable

The group meets the third Friday of every month from 12:00-2:00pm.

The Resident Services Roundtable is a peer network and policy group focused on issues of resident services.

Roundtable Library
Listed here are reports and studies that might be helpful to resident service coordinators to encourage support for their programs or to gather program best practices.

Permanent Supportive Housing: An Operating Cost Analysis
Corporation for Supportive Housing and Enterprise Community Partners conducted this operating cost study.

"Research Shows the Cost Benefits of Resident Services on the Performance of Property Operations", Community Housing Partners-2009
Shows lower vacancy loss, bad debt, and legal fees with inclusion of resident services in this Pennslyvania example.

"Research Demonstrates Positive Impact of Family Resident Services On Property Financial Performance In Selected Mercy Housing Family Properties Over Two Years", Enterprise Community Partners-2007
As in the study above shows lower vacancy loss, bad debt, and legal fees in properties with resident services in the Mercy Housing Portfolio.

Information Specific to Out of School Programs:

Harvard Family Research Project Database on Out of School Time Program Research and Evaluation

American Youth Policy Forum Briefs on Afterschool/Out-of-School Time Policy

San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families Out of School Time Standards

Afterschool Alliance: Information on Out of School Time Programming

Boston After School and Beyond: Boston based After School Program Research

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: Publications relted to Family and Community Involvement

National Institue on Out-of-School Time: A wealth of resources on this topic

WINGS: Developing social and emotional intelligence through fresh and fun after school programs

Ad Hoc Working Groups

In cases where certain legislative, regulatory or policy issues require more in-depth attention than the legislative issues committee can provide, ad hoc committees are formed to work with staff in a more focused manner.

Current Committees include:

· TCAC Working Group

Draft Regulations and other informative materials are available from the TCAC Website.

Click here to download NPH Comment Letter to TCAC on proposed 2011 Regulations.

Housing Advocacy Network

The Housing Advocacy Network (formerly The Nine-County Advocacy Network) started in 1996 when NPH received a multi-year grant from the federal Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) to work on community acceptance strategies for affordable housing. In order to build and increase local capacity for community advocacy and education, NPH redistributed the grant to county-level housing advocacy coalitions. Representatives from these local housing advocacy organizations formed the Community Acceptance Strategies Consortium (CASC). At the end of the grant period, CASC decided to continue as a regionally entity and became the Nine-County Advocacy Network. The Housing Advocacy Network works on local, regional and state housing campaigns and issues. The Network provides an opportunity for local groups to work together to meet regional housing goals. Campaigns and projects of the Housing Advocacy Network include:

· Siting of Homeless Housing and Services: Best Practices for Community Acceptance (1999)

· Fair Share Housing Element Campaign (2000)

· Inclusionary Housing Initiative (2004)

· Proposition 46 (2002), Proposition 1C (2006) and Permanent Source Campaigns (present)

· Affordable Housing Week (annual)

· Zone for Homes (current)

Current Housing Advocacy Network members:

Mike Rawson & Craig Castellanet California Affordable Housing Law Project Gloria Bruce & Amie Fishman East Bay Housing Organizations Tessa Rouverol Callejo FAITHS Initiative Michele Jordan Genisis, Region Interfaith Community Organization Stephanie Reyes Greenbelt Alliance Paula Cook Housing Advocacy Group Chris Mohr & Joshua Hugg Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County Dave Coury & Mike Daley Marin Environmental Housing Coalition Kathleen Dreessen Napa Valley Community Housing

Evelyn Stivers & Robert Hickey Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California Richard Marcantonio & Samuel T. Tepperman-Gelfant Public Advocates Tony Sustak Richmond Progressive Alliance Peter Cohen San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations Cheryl Serna Santa Clara County Collaborative on Affordable Homeless Issues Shiloh Ballard Silicon Valley Leadership Group Vu-Bang Nguyen, AICP Urban Habitat & Race Poverty and the Environment

For more information contact Evelyn Stivers at evelyn at nonprofithousing.org