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2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Geoff Brown
Chair
President, USA Properties Fund, Inc
Linda Mandolini
Vice Chair/Co-Policy Chair President, Eden Housing
Jim Silverwood
Secretary
President, Affirmed Housing
Ken Sauder
Treasurer
President/CEO, Wakeland Housing & Development
Jeanne Peterson
Co-Policy Chair
Director, CohnReznick
Mary Kaiser
Membership Chair
President, California Community Reinvestment Corp
Terry Freeman
Immediate Past Chair
Principal, Terry Freeman & Associates
Laura Archuleta
President, Jamboree Housing
Orlando Cabrera
Counsel, Squire Sanders
Rebecca Clark
President, Clark Consulting
Leslye Corsiglia
Director, City of San Jose Housing Department
Matt Franklin
President, MidPen Housing
Robin Hughes
President/CEO, Abode Communities
Lynn Hutchins
Partner, Goldfarb & Lipman LLP
Jim Kroger
Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP
Cynthia Parker CEO, BRIDGE Housing Corporation
Mary Ellen Shay
President, ME Shay Co
Doug Shoemaker
President, Mercy Housing California
Dianne Spaulding
Executive Director, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
Ronne Thielen
Executive Vice President, R4 Capital
Percival Vaz
President/CEO, AMCAL Multi-Housing
Bill Witte
President, Related California
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS:
Sean Spear
Executive Director, California Debt Limit Allocation Committee
Claudia Cappio
Executive Director, California Housing Finance Agency
William Pavao
Executive Director, California Tax Credit Allocation Committee
STAFF:
Ray Pearl
Executive Director
Marina Wiant
Policy Director
Nancy Martin
Program Manager
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In Policy News...
California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013
 With less than a week before our first hearing on SB 391, now is the time to make your voice heard in support of the effort to build 10,000 affordable homes each year and create 29,000 jobs annually.
Get on the RecordToday is the deadline for support letters to be received before the first hearing in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. Even if you have already endorsed the bill using our online endorsement form, it is critical that you make your support known directly to Legislators by sending an official letter to Senator DeSaulnier. This will ensure your name appears on the official list of supporters when the bill is heard in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee on April 9.
Use our sample letter, print on your letterhead, and fax to (916) 445-2209 (Attn: Mark Stivers). Don't forget to do this today!
Show Our Strength
This first hearing is our opportunity to show legislators and the public how many Californian voices support SB 391 to:
- Build 10,000 homes each year that are affordable to California's working families, people with disabilities, seniors, veterans, and people who are now homeless
- Create 29,000 jobs each year
- Help businesses recruit and retain the employees they need to thrive
Legislators will hear from representatives of California's affordable homebuilders and building industry and business leaders as well as representatives of seniors and veterans who know the critical need to build more affordable homes for vulnerable Californians.
If you are near Sacramento, you can attend the hearing in person to show your support!
Hearing Details:
Tuesday April 9, 2013 at 1:30pm
John L Burton Hearing Room
State Capitol Building, Room 4203
Sacramento, CA 95814
If you are planning to attend, please RVSP to John Simmons, Field Campaign Director at Housing California.
Tweet It In! If you can't attend the hearing in person, don't let that stop you from showing your support for homes and jobs! If you are on Twitter, you can send a message of support to members of the Senate Housing and Transportation Committee. Senator Mark DeSaulnier: @SenDeSaulnier Senator Ted Gaines: @TedGaines Senator Jim Beall: @Jimbealljr Senator Anthony Cannella: @AnthonyCannella Senator Cathleen Galgiani: @Galgiani2012 Senator Ricardo Lara: @SenRicardoLara Senator Carol Liu: @Liu4StateSenate Senator Fran Pavley: @SenatorPavley Senator Richard Roth: @GeneralRoth Senator Mark Wyland: @markwyland Here are some examples of tweets to send to the committee members: - [your city] needs homes and jobs, [insert @Legislator], say #YesonSB391
- The housing crisis isn't over for CA families, [insert @Legislator] #YesonSB391 & get CA building again!
- Vote #YesonSB391 to create 10,000 affordable homes per year [[insert @legislator]
- Get CA building to create 29,000 jobs annually. [insert @legislator] vote #YesonSB391
Don't forget to follow us @CAHomesandJobs for daily campaign updates! Our Coalition Keeps Growing! Our broad and diverse coalition has grown to more than 500 organizations and individuals dedicated to passing The California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013 to help meet California's demand for affordable homes, create jobs, and boost the economy. These individuals and groups are among the many that have endorsed SB 391 since our last update: - California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer
- California Police Chiefs Association Inc.
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
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California Apartment Association
- City of Santa Barbara
- City of Oakland
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City of Laguna Beach
View a current list of SB 391 endorsers.
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CHC Supports Several Other Important Housing Bills
CHC is pleased to support several other important housing bills: AB 523 (Ammiano), AB 716 (Quirk-Silva), 952 (Atkins), and SB 341 (DeSaulnier).
AB 523 (Ammiano) would allow HCD to reduce the interest rate on loans for affordable rental projects to 0% if the projects were able to prove that they had no other debt payments, will use low-income housing tax credits, and that a reduction in the interest rate on the HCD loan is needed to allow the project to be able to qualify for low-income housing tax credits without a reduction in the interest rate. Without a 0% interest rate, projects targeted to extremely low income residents will not be able to utilize MHP funds. Therefore, AB 523 would help housing projects that serve homeless youth, veterans, and other special needs populations to move forward in the development process.
AB 716 (Quirk-Silva) adds housing to the state's five-year infrastructure plan. Developed by the Department of Finance, the plan identifies infrastructure needs for roadways, schools, colleges, water, and any other category identified by state agencies and set out priorities for funding. This bill ensures that housing is included in the dialogue surrounding statewide infrastructure planning.
AB 952 (Atkins) would allow California low-income housing tax credits to be used in conjunction with federal tax credits in federally-designated Difficult-to-Develop Areas and Qualified Census Tracts. The Low Income Housing Tax Credit is one of the most important and most successful affordable housing production programs around the country and, in California, generates approximately 15,000 housing units per year. AB 952 would allow more special needs housing projects receive the private investment they need to move forward.
SB 341 (DeSaulnier) streamlines administrative requirements for housing successor agencies to ensure accountability, provide flexibility, and target scarce available resources to the greatest needs. Housing successor agencies that manage assets and continue to enforce the affordable housing covenants and restrictions of former RDAs need these updates to Community Revelopment Law in order to meet the needs of their communities.
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Upcoming CHC 2013 Events
CHC Spring Policy Forum & CA Housing Hall of Fame Awards - Sponsored by
When: May 16th, 2013 8am-2pm
Where: Sacramento Grand Ballroom - Sacramento, CA
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CHC Member Profile
Hunters View, a 22-acre public housing redevelopment effort being led by CHC member The John Stewart Company, was recently recognized as the Best Community Impact "Deal of the Year" by the San Francisco Business Times.
 Hunters View consists of the transformation of a dilapidated 267-unit public housing complex into a new neighborhood of 750 mixed-income rental and for sale housing units, two new public parks and neighborhood-serving retail. The Project is being developed in three phases to allow on-site relocation of existing residents, is generating hundreds of jobs for residents and community members, and is the first project in the Mayor of San Francisco's "HOPE SF" Program (a local response to the termination of the federal HOPE VI program).
The John Stewart Company, Devine & Gong, Inc. and Ridge Point Non-Profit Housing Corporation have been working on the project since 2005 and its first Phase will be completed by mid-2013.
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30141 Agoura Road, Suite 205Agoura Hills, CA 91301Phone: 818.735.9551Fax: 818.735.7348400 Capitol Mall, Suite 900Sacramento, CA 95814Phone: 916.930.5248www.calhsng.org |
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