HLC is excited to unveil our Affordable Housing Month event calendar! This year’s theme - Opening Doors to Opportunity - will reinforce the intersection of housing with race, equity, and health so that our new normal will be better than before, for all of us. Registrations open on Monday, April 12th, so mark your calendars!

• The State of Affordable Housing in San Mateo County
• Addressing our Climate Crisis Through Affordable Housing Advocacy
• Advocacy 101
• COVID & Resilience: Wellness Design Considerations
• Growing Home: Poetry, Art & Music Competition
• My Housing Story: Voices of People of Color with Disabilities
• Emerging Trends in Affordable Housing Construction
• ADUs: Fulfilling the Promise of Affordable Housing in 2021
• Supporting Extremely-Low Income Families through Public-Private Partnership
• The Color of Law: Public School Funding Edition
• Highlighting Affordable Homes in San Mateo County (Arroyo Green, Montara, more to come!)

Thank you to our confirmed Affordable Housing Month sponsors for 2021. Your support is an integral part of HLC's events program, and allows us to engage wider audiences and spread our mission. If you are able to support, it is not too late to become a sponsor! We would love to partner with you to bring more impactful and informative events to our supporters. 

Questions? Contact Vivian Le, Fundraising and Events Manager, at vle@hlcsmc.org.

What is Roadmap Home 2030? So glad you asked! 

Roadmap Home 2030 is a bold, long-term plan to create the future we want for California by building affordable homes, protecting low-income renters, ending homelessness, and advancing racial equity and economic inclusion. Here are three quick and easy next steps:

1. View the 12 policies Roadmap Home is advocating for.
2. Take action!
3. Keep an eye on our newsletter :)

Housing Trust Opens Request for Information for Apple Affordable Housing Fund

Apple announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan in November 2019 to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California. 

The Apple Affordable Housing Fund is now open for responses to the 2021 Request for Information (RFI). This Fund intends to make loans to qualified developers to help accelerate affordable housing throughout the Bay Area. 

Housing Trust is requesting information from developers for the Fund, to unstick developments that will be “shovel ready” on or before June 30, 2022. We are seeking projects that are all but ready to proceed, yet need unique and flexible capital to allow the project to move to the construction phase.

Download a copy of the Request for Information

Download a PDF preview of the Request for Information Form

Access the online RFI Form here

Need Help With Rent or Utilities?

California Rent Relief is here! 📢 Eligible Renters can apply for assistance with unpaid rent and utilities. We must build toward an equitable recovery! According to a Bay Area Equity Atlas analysis, San Mateo County has an estimated 10,945 households experiencing forms of renter debt. Please share this information with those severely impacted by COVID19. 

California landlords who have one or more eligible renters can apply to get reimbursed for 80% of each eligible renter’s unpaid rent between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, if they agree to waive the remaining 20% of unpaid rent for that specific time period. Undocumented tenants are eligible.

Application link (english): https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html 

Application link (spanish): https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index_esp.html

Celebrate Guiding Lights of Sustainability

We invite you to join SSMC in celebrating the 2021 winners of the Sustainability Awards, Ruth Peterson Award and the Green Building Award at our 22^nd Annual Awards Celebration on Friday, May 14, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. 

Hosted by former State Senator Jerry Hill, the event will feature inspiring stories about champions of sustainability in San Mateo County, fun and games. Admission is free.

Meet Our Newest Intern: Rohin Ghosh

Hi! My name is Rohin Ghosh and I am a high school senior and activist from Palo Alto. Housing is important to me because I believe it is the biggest factor in improving the lives of everybody in our communities, but especially our most vulnerable community members. I’ve seen so many friends have to move out of the Bay Area because they lack access to an affordable place to live here. Building affordable homes near jobs and transit is especially important for young people like me who are worried about where we will be able to afford to live and are concerned about the effect of the car-centric lifestyle on our planet. I am excited to be a part of HLC’s work to bring affordable housing options to everyone in our communities on the Peninsula.

ICYMI: Slides from our Affordable Housing Finance Event

Thank you to everyone for “investing” your time in HLC’s Affordable Housing Finance Informational Session on March 18th! For those who missed it, and to our members in attendance, we’d like to share the presentations from the meeting!

Our Friends are Hiring!

Housing Santa Cruz County seeks a dynamic founding Executive Director to further establish a housing advocacy organization for Santa Cruz County. The Executive Director will be responsible for overseeing the strategy, sustainability, and operation of the organization, including strategic direction, fundraising, membership, and board development. Click here to learn more.

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