Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
For Engaging Affordable Housing Stakeholders In Bay Area Land Use Planning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/30/2009
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
A regional, grass-roots organization, NPH provides a voice for those who support, build, and finance affordable housing. As a core partner of the Great Communities Collaborative, NPH will work towards the goals of SB 375 by focusing on the need to create affordable housing around transit hubs. SB 375 directs counties to develop binding regional plans for meeting the greenhouse gas reduction targets from improving land-use. This is key since transportation produces 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the Bay Area, and increasing sprawl cancels out positives of alternative cars and fuels. NPH will aid stakeholders in creating a regional housing agenda for the Bay Area's Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS). By 2035, the goal is for 65 percent of new development to be in downtowns near transit, with 20 to 40 percent of that development affordable to lower-income households. This grant would further Hewlett's efforts address the environmental and sustainable transportation needs of underserved communities in the Bay Area.
(New, $50,000/1; 19 % of project budget)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.nonprofithousing.org/index.atomic
Address
369 Pine Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA, 94104-3300, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Sustainable Communities Strategies project
The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California is a grassroots membership association working for affordable housing for low-income people in the Bay Area. During the grant period, the organization would work with groups to shape the Bay Area’s Sustainable Communities Strategy and support implementation of Plan Bay Area, which ties land use and transportation planning to implementation of California's climate change law.
for the Sustainable Communities Strategies project
The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California is a grassroots membership association working for affordable housing for low-income people in the Bay Area. The organization would work with groups to shape the Bay Area’s Sustainable Communities Strategy. If poorly planned sprawl development continues, driving in California will increase 70 percent by 2030, harming the environment and continuing the trend of siting housing development far from job centers.
for the Sustainable Communities Strategies campaign
Started in 1979, the Non-Profit Housing Association is a grassroots membership association that advocates for affordable housing for low-income people in the Bay Area. Its over 750 members are a spectrum of large regional developers ; faith-based organizations; neighborhood and community-based developer organizations; social service providers and small, newly emergent groups. NPH is part of the Great Communities Collaborative coalition and will work with environmental groups to shape the Bay Area’s Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS), which cities have been mandated to develop. If poorly planned sprawl development continues, driving in California will increase 70 percent by 2030, harming the environment and causing negative social impacts especially in underserved communities. But a well thought out SCS will create new transit-oriented developments, especially in underserved communities. By 2035, the goal is for 65 percent of new development to be in downtowns near transit, with 20 to 40 percent of that development affordable to lower-income households. This grant would further Hewlett's efforts address the environmental and sustainable transportation needs of underserved communities in the Bay Area.
(New, $50,000/1; 19 % of project budget)
