February 3, 2020
Groups backing her also included Chinatown Community Development Center and a coalition of affordable housing developers, The Council of Community Housing Organizations, known as “Choo Choo.”
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January 28, 2020
“No matter where you are in the state or what size the project is, there should be some affordability requirement above what may already be required.”
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January 25, 2020
Churches in San Francisco looking to build affordable housing will benefit from Proposition E, which rezoned large lots and public sites to allow for 100% affordable housing.
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January 16, 2020
“Through the collaboration of District Staff, United Educators, the Council of Community Housing Organizations, Housing Accelerator Fund and Mayor's Office, we were able to create a policy that can become a model for how we develop Educator Housing moving forward.”
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January 15, 2020
The resolution, the result of collaboration between the district, the mayor’s office, the union, the Council of Community Housing Organizations and an affordable housing fund, stems from the voters’ approval of two propositions last year.
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January 8, 2020
San Francisco passed a business tax measure for homeless housing and services, which included a similar rent subsidy. The funding source isn’t available yet because the measure is stuck in litigation, said Fernando Marti, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations.
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January 5, 2020
CCHO's Marti explains the “need to put massive public investments into affordable housing” to fix affordability issues. Separating affordable housing underground with lower quality amenities goes against SF’s Inclusionary Housing law.
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December 11, 2019
“It feels like we won, and that’s a really, really good feeling,” Jackman Buitrago said.
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November 17, 2019
Sasha Perigo digs into why a public bank would help make housing more affordable.
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November 17, 2019
In a fresh BBC news report on the housing affordability squeeze in California and particularly the Bay Area, the UC Berkeley Terner Center and the CCHO both point to the income and wealth disparity driving the squeeze
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November 14, 2019
San Francisco voters approved two ballot measures aimed at bringing more affordable housing to one of the least affordable cities in the United States.
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November 6, 2019
“This is the biggest citywide zoning effort for affordable housing in modern history,” said a jubilant Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council for Community Housing Organizations (CCHO).
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November 6, 2019
“This is the biggest citywide zoning effort for affordable housing in modern history,” said a jubilant Peter Cohen.
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November 5, 2019
Fernando Marti, co-director of CCHO, said that while it’s “great that the tech giants are trying to outdo each other” with contributions, they are also driving the need with their breakneck growth.
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October 28, 2019
"We say that Prop. A and E are complementary measures,” Cohen said. “They both address affordable housing developers' two biggest obstacles: the funding and the land.”
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October 23, 2019
We recently told you that San Francisco's housing production for low-income earners is out of sync with the actual demand. It all came out in a report last week by the Legislative Budget Analyst's Office.
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October 17, 2019
“The policy question is: How do we house these workers or do we assume they will just commute from Antioch?” said said council Co-director Fernando Marti.
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October 17, 2019
A new city report comes as supervisors seek to rectify the massive impact of high-earning jobs on affordable housing.
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October 17, 2019
Most people have that one teacher who changed the course of their life forever, but increasingly, students in the Bay Area are losing the opportunity to have that kind of relationship with an educator.
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September 17, 2019
The $600 million bond that’s up for a vote in November differs from the big-ticket housing bond that passed in 2018 by giving more leeway to developers to devise projects in keeping with city guidelines as well as by focusing on the western and southern areas of San Francisco as potential sites for affordable housing
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