Dear Friend of CCHO,

For four decades the Council of Community Housing Organizations -- the City’s coalition of community and faith-based affordable housing developers and housing advocates -- has been at the center of making San Francisco a national leader in affordable housing. In the recovery from COVID-19 and its related economic impacts, CCHO will need to dig even deeper in our work for housing security for all San Franciscans. Without question, our continued affordable housing work depends on the grassroots financial support from Friends of CCHO like you! We are reaching out to you with this spring appeal for your continued support. Contributions of all sizes are valuable in the fight for housing justice.

Will you please make a donation today to support our continued fight to produce and preserve affordable housing in San Francisco?

In the year ahead, CCHO's plans include: 

• Taking big steps forward in scaling housing preservation programs utilizing the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, as our city recovers from COVID-19, responding to the coming “eviction cliff” and further speculation and displacement pressure in our neighborhoods;

• Supporting community planning and affordable development capacity in the West Side neighborhoods, continuing to expand citywide rezoning for affordable homes, and collaborating with institutional land owners to unlock development opportunities across the City’s neighborhoods;

• Ensuring that San Francisco is committed to Housing Our Workers by aligning housing policies with a true Jobs-Housing Fit that connects affordability to real wages;

• Implementing innovative affordable housing opportunities through the Housing Stability Fund resourced by over $100 million/year from Proposition I that voters adopted last November.

 We would not be able to do this without your generous support. This work will continue through generations to come as we broaden the coalition fighting for the building and preservation of affordable housing and protecting San Franciscans from displacement! The Council of Community Housing Organizations thanks you for working with us on real solutions to housing.

In solidarity,

John Avalos, Charlie Sciammas, and Li Lovett