Yesterday in response to Governor Brown's budget proposal, HCD Acting Director Cathy Creswell released this memo detailing her department's guidance on future Prop 46 and 1C NOFAs. For the time being, all open and unawarded NOFAs are cancelled and no new NOFAs will be offered until the pause is lifted (the pause is currently proposed to end on June 30, 2012). 

Please join the California Housing Consortium in Sacramento for our annual Lobby Days on March 8-9.

The event will begin on Tuesday, March 8 at 1:30 pm and conclude Wednesday, March 9 at 4:00 pm.

March 8:

Participants will gather for a discussion of current issues and lobbying strategy, followed by a group dinner.

March 9:

Participants will have the opportunity to speak with key legislators and staff working in small lobbying groups with fellow CHC members.

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After many years of planning, The John Stewart Company recently broke ground on the horizontal/infrastructure component of the first phase of the ambitious Hunters View public housing revitalization effort in San Francisco.  Involving the complete reconfiguration of 22 acres and replacement of a severely distressed 267-unit public housing complex in Bayview-Hunters Point, Hunters View is JSCo's largest project to date and will eventually include two new parks, extensive new community facilities and almost 800 units of mixed-income rental and for-sale housing.  The first phase consists of 107 affordable rental units in three buildings and a public park.

Hunters View is the first project in the City of San Francisco's "HOPE SF" program, a local effort to rebuild several dilapidated public housing developments.  
 

Involving a veritable "who's who" of CHC members and supporters, the project is being funded by the Redevelopment Agency and the City and County of San Francisco, the Federal Home Loan Bank, HUD, the San Francisco Housing Authority and the California Department of Housing and Community Development.  Citibank is the lender and tax credit equity will be supplied by Bank of America and Enterprise Community Partners.  Designed by Daniel Solomon Design Partners and Paulett Taggart Architects, the project will be built by Cahill Contractors and Nibbi Brothers Construction, with accounting services provided by the Reznick Group.
 

Hunters View is a LEED Neighborhood Development pilot project and individual buildings will be Greenpoint certified.  "We're creating a vibrant new neighborhood - a denser and greener neighborhood that is interconnected with the rest of the city," said Jack Gardner, President & CEO of The John Stewart Company, lead developer of Hunters View along with partners Devine & Gong, Inc. and Ridge Point Non-Profit Housing Corp.  For more information, go to www.huntersview.info.