About CHC :: Key Successes

State Level

  • In 2011 budget battle, fought to reform not eliminate redevelopment agencies while preserving affordable housing dollars
  • Has a leadership role in the efforts to secure a California permanent source of funding for affordable housing
  • Involved in implementation of SB 375, landmark transportation and global warming legislation signed by the Governor in 2008, and tracking its impacts on affordable housing
  • Co-directed the successful Prop 1C $2.85 billion Housing Bond Campaign in 2006 which sustains existing housing programs for homeless and very low-income households and first-time homebuyers, as well as unprecedented housing programs
  • In 2007, CHC played a leading role in the enabling legislation required to program over $1 billion of the PROP 1C funding for infill- and transit-oriented development, parks and housing-related infrastructure, and innovative initiatives ranging from local housing trust fund matching funds to green building programs
  • Leadership role in creating prudent guidelines for qualifying non-profit general partners in order to prevent abuses of the affordable housing property tax exemption (i.e., Welfare Tax Exemption, guidelines under Rule 140 of the CA Board of Equalization)
  • Leadership position in addressing the unintended consequences of 2003′s prevailing wage requirements on the development of affordable housing
  • Leadership role in building the coalition of support for establishing a California State Housing Trust Fund (i.e., a ‘permanent source’) for affordable housing in California as an alternative to periodic general obligation bonds
  • Created 40-member Board of Governors to complement the 15-member Board of Directors, bringing even more diversity and leadership to the organization through their advice and participation in task forces, member roundtables, and CHC’s Annual Policy Forum
  • Played a major role in the successful passage of Proposition 46 in 2002, a $2.1 billion general obligation bond that established the Multi-Family Housing Program for catalyzing the development of affordable rental housing, Cal-HOME/BEGIN/Self-Help programs for first-time home buyer housing opportunities
  • Established ongoing relationships with the key decision-makers:
    - State Legislature
    - Governor’s Office
    - State Treasurer’s Office
    - Department of Housing and Community Development
    - California Housing Finance Agency

Federal Level

  • Advised and lobbied members of Congress to support several initiatives that: Modernize and restore the Mortgage Revenue Bond and Tax Credit programs to ensure they can be used to the fullest and most advantageous extent possible; Increased and made permanent Low Income Housing Tax Credits; Increased the Private Activity Bond Cap; Increased and fully funded the Preservation/Section 8 Renewal Program
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