Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California

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.

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.

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)