New Oped: Creating a Bay Area where everyone has a home, good health
10.11.19. Racial equity is the key to solving the region’s housing, homelessness and health care crises
New OP-ED: We work here, but can we live here?
9.15.19. A much better “fit” is needed between the housing being produced and the wages of the jobs being created.
The Council of Community Housing Organizations (known as “Choo Choo”) is a nonprofit coalition of 26 community-based housing developers and tenant advocates.
Our collective longstanding mission is to foster the development of permanently affordable low-income housing in San Francisco, under community control and through non-speculative means of ownership, with adequate provisions for tenant services and empowerment.
CCHO In the news: Will building more market housing help with Vancouver’s affordability problems?
Peter Cohen of CCHO was featured in Globe and Mail’s piece on the affordability crisis in Vancouver.
CCHO IN THE NEWS: SF’s housing market is so dire that tech workers are spending over $2,000 a month to rent rooms
July 22, 2019. "It's an affordable supply issue, not just a supply issue, said Maya Chupkov of CCHO.
KPFA, Upfront: Feat. UESF’s Susan Solomon and CCHO’s Peter Cohen
CCHO with Bay Area Forward released "Who Will Teach Our Children?", a report identifying the housing and affordability levels needed for Bay Area educators to live where they work.
The report is an entry level brief on educator housing, and the “fit” needed between educator incomes and their housing costs.
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