May 3, 5:30-8:00PM

Join us for the annual CCHO Party! kicking off the Affordable Housing Week activities. It’s that time of year again to celebrate this long history, our collective work, and our future! Join us for an evening of food, camaraderie, history, and the CCHO Housing Awards honoring our allies in the fight for a City for All!

Suggested donation of $20-$50 at the door, or you can donate here ahead of the event. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

March 31, 2019. SF Examiner. Passing COPA is the next big step in a comprehensive community stabilization and affordable housing strategy, one that begins with addressing people where they are at: in their homes.

April 9, 2019. Next City. Housing advocates have been working to get a law like COPA passed for at least the last four years, says Fernando Martí.

April 3, 2019. “It creates a pathway, both for small sites but also for larger buildings. We’re stabilizing families where they’re at,” CCHO’s co-director Fernando Marti says.

Affordable housing advocates with the Council of Community Housing Organizations agree that the slowing down of actual housing production over the past year speaks to a “rise in construction costs over the last two years.”

In Silicon Valley's backyard, only high-end housing needs in San Francisco have been met over the past four years ending in 2017. In contrast, over the same period, low-income and middle-income housing demand outstripped new housing supply four to one.

Last month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed hired the City’s first Director of Housing Delivery to expedite project approval and permitting, which should lead to more housing getting constructed, and more quickly. But, how does the development process actually work?