CCHO Organizational Update - 2021 and Beyond
What Makes CCHO run?
The Council of Community Housing Organizations is a coalition of 21 member organizations and as an organization with its own dedicated staff has evolved through two generations of leadership. We are now dynamically evolving again with a third generation of member leadership.
For twelve dedicated years, Peter Cohen and Fernando Martí have kept CCHO as the voice of San Francisco's affordable housing movement. As the housing crisis surged in the last decade, CCHO never lost sight of its roots in racial justice and place-based community-led development.
Over its 43 year history, the Council of Community Housing Organizations has been at the forefront of winning actionable policy that is a model for affordable housing and housing justice activism around the Bay Area and across California.
From 2019-2021, CCHO’s staff and member organizations leadership led an organizational evolution to strengthen the durability of the coalition, and to continue building the collective power of the Council of Community Housing Organizations in an increasingly polarized housing policy landscape in San Francisco, the Bay Area and at the State level, beginning with a process to strengthen the coalition’s internal alignment on strategic approach.
In 2021, the Council of Community Housing Organizations transformed its governance structure to establish an 11-member Board of Directors directly elected by its membership organizations. The Board is structured to ensure representation from our core membership of community-based nonprofit developers of different sizes as well as advocacy and services organizations, and reflect the range of geographies and constituencies, and gender and ethnic/racial balance.
CCHO’s Board of Directors takes political responsibility to lead and defend the Coalition and its staff to advance CCHO’s policy goals. The structure is built to cultivate new leadership spaces for rising talent to be the vanguard on the CCHO Board of Directors and for new talented and passionate executive staff to shepherd the Council of Community Housing Organizations into the next chapter of our coalition's history.