Model and Strategy
The California Housing Partnership creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for low-income Californians by providing expert research, financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners. Battery Powered funding would support three key areas of work in service of California’s nearly three million lower-income renter households:
1. Technical assistance to nonprofit and government affordable housing providers in the areas of affordable housing finance, clean energy and applied research along with training and capacity building for industry professionals.
2. Thought leadership through the convening of forums, networks and working groups to inclusively and equitably advance policy and systems-change solutions, including California’s Roadmap Home 2030.
3. Actionable published research on affordable housing needs and solutions, with two accompanying online data tools for housing research and outcomes tracking.
The Partnership also produces key reports used across the state about the loss and risk of loss of existing affordable homes as well as an Affordable Housing Need Report for the whole state and for each of California’s 58 counties individually. These reports are supplemented by an online interactive data tool, the Housing Needs Dashboard (chpc.net/housingneeds) that tracks key indicators of housing need, market trends, state and federal funding, and production and preservation. Each year, these reports and data tools track the progress of the combined efforts of housing advocacy organizations, state leaders, local and regional planning officials, and affordable housing providers in meeting the housing needs of California’s lowest income renters.
Impact
In 2022 alone, the Partnership will create or preserve 5,000 affordable homes across California, build the capacity of over 60 nonprofit and local government housing providers, increase the knowledge and skills of 3,500 industry professionals through trainings and briefings, and reach over 5,000 visitors across our data tools.
The Partnership’s ten-year goals are detailed in California’s Roadmap Home 2030 and include:
- Create 1.2 million new affordable homes for low-income Californians, including for those experiencing homelessness.
- Protect 1 million low-income renter households from losing their homes, including more than 300,000 who face eviction each year.
- End homelessness for more than 150,000 Californians who are unhoused every night and over 400,000 who are unhoused throughout the year.
- Close the racial equity gaps in housing and homelessness created by decades of racist housing policies that have harmed Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other people of color.
We will also ensure that low-income renters and affordable housing providers can contribute to meeting the state’s climate goals by empowering them to make all new and renovated affordable homes carbon-neutral, in a way that keeps rent and utility costs at levels lower income Californians can afford. The Partnership will do this by enabling 100 nonprofit affordable housing developments to benefit from $50 million in state clean energy programs reducing greenhouse gasses by an estimated 171,200 metric tons.
Leadership
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Matt Schwartz
President & CEO
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Anthony Vega
Research Director