Affordable Housing 101
A tutorial to understand how affordable housing policies work and how affordable housing gets built.
Take Action
Send a personal letter to your legislator asking for their support of the following legislation:
Housing Intersecting with the Issues
Fact-sheets about how other issues intersect with affordable housing.
Looking for Affordable Housing?
Click the links below to help in your search for affordable housing throughout California.
- Looking for Housing? — California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH)
- Find Housing — Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
- Find Housing — San Diego Housing Federation (SDHF)
- Find Housing — Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH)
- Affordable Housing Map & Benefits Calculator
Links to Affordable Housing Organizations
Learn more from the most prominent affordable housing organizations around the region, State, and Country.
CHC’s national affiliate. NHC hosts “Paycheck to Paycheck” an online, interactive database which presents wage information for more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents for nearly 200 metropolitan areas. Visit NHC’s Open House blog to participate in a national conversation about how to best meet the need for decent, affordable housing.
Working on preserving existing federally assisted homes and housing resources, expanding the supply of low income housing, and establishing housing stability as the primary purpose of federal low income housing policy.
A national, grassroots campaign led by a broad, cross-industry coalition of over 850 national, state, and local organizations working on protecting and preserving the Low Income Housing Tax Credit as a means of providing a wide variety of affordable rental housing options to low-income working families.
The AHTCC is a trade organization of housing professionals who advocate for affordable rental housing financed using the Housing Credit.
A member-driven business collaborative of 100 of the leading housing and community development nonprofits in the country based on members sharing best practices through peer exchange from which new ideas emerge for innovation in the housing and community development sectors.