Policy & Advocacy

CHPC was created by the state legislature in part to provide leadership on affordable housing policy and resource issues of benefit to California. For this reason, CHPC is actively engaged in advocating for affordable resources on both the state and federal levels.

At a state level we work closely with Housing California to assess housing-related state legislation and to work on plans for a permanent source of revenue for affordable housing. CHPC also occasionally works actively on state legislation directly related to housing preservation issues such as improvements to the State Preservation Notice Law and expanding the definition of at-risk housing to include housing within five years of losing affordability. [Revenue & Taxation Code 17058(c)(4)]

At a federal level, CHPC has facilitated the creation of a broad coalition of California affordable housing interests to find common ground and advocate jointly to California’s Congressional leaders regarding the need for improvements in federal housing policy and funding. Recent legislation that CHPC has focused its energies on include: improvements to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program, improvements to the Section Eight Project Based Voucher program, adequate funding for housing related programs.

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