• California Housing Agencies & Organizations
• National Housing Agencies & Organizations

California Housing Agencies & Organizations

• California Affordable Housing Law Project
• California Coastal Commission
• California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) @ California State Treasurer - administers the residential rental housing bond program, among others.
• California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
  • Division of Housing Policy Development
  • Search: List of Affordable Rental Housing Developments
• California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
  • DFEH Publications
• California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) - source of below-market interest rate loans for affordable housing development; also administers:
  • Multifamily Rental Programs
    • Search: Affordable Rental Housing
  • Homeownership Programs
• California Housing Law Project - valuable site for updates, summaries, and data on pending California low-income housing legislation, offers email newsletters for latest info.
• California Housing Partnership Corporation - state-funded organization providing technical assistance and data for affordable housing developers, government officials and housing advocates seeking to preserve existing affordable housing.
• California Redevelopment Association (CRA) - website for association of redevelopment agencies and allied firms.
• California Tax Credit Allocation Committee @ California Treasurer - state and federal tax credit financing program for affordable rental housing development.
  • Affordable Developments Receiving Tax Credits
  • Compliance Manual
  • "Good Cause" Documents - single PDF file includes "A Resident Notification Letter," "Lease Rider" and a "Notice - Good Cause Protection" that tax-credit owners must issue to tenants to ensure compliance with LIHTC "good cause" lease termination/renewal protections.
• California USDA Rural Development
• Housing California - statewide advocacy organization dedicated to maximizing affordable housing opportunities and ending homelessness.
• Institute for Local Government
  • Housing Resource Center
• Western Center on Law and Poverty (WCLP)
  • Housing Resources

National Housing Agencies & Organizations

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • HUD Net Locator - convenient links for locating HUD employees, key staff, local offices (by state and city!), 800 numbers, and nine different HUD info clearinghouses.
  • Subsidized Apartment Search - listings of HUD subsidized properties.
    • California Search
  • Multifamily Inventory of Units for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - current inventory of subsidized housing intended for elderly and disabled.
    • California Inventory
  • Newsroom - "top of the fold" news section at HUD.
  • Online Library - online repository for HUD laws, regs, policy directives, etc.
  • HUD Translated Materials - expansive list of HUD brochures, booklets, fact sheets, forms, posters and public service announcements available in multiple languages.
  • Search HUD Site
  • Site Index

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - legal advocacy organization for persons with mental disabilities.
  • Fair Housing Information Sheets
• Center for Community Change - provides training, technical support and capacity building to low-income grass-roots organizations.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Low Income Housing Reports and Publications
• Corporation for Supportive Housing - resource for supportive housing sponsors and public policy on homelessness issues.
• Housing Assistance Council - resource for rural housing development.
• National Alliance of HUD Tenants - support site for HUD tenant grass-roots organizing and legislative advocacy.
• National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)
  • Homeless Fact Sheets
• National Housing Law Project - key website for outlines, analysis and briefs on all federal housing programs.
  • Housing Justice Network
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty - legal, public policy and educational resources on homelessness issues.
  • Housing Section
• National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)
  • 2007 Advocates' Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy - superb resource on all things housing, provides concise background summaries and the latest developments on over 40 issues of interest to those working on affordable housing issues (and really helpful for folks baffled by all the "insider" acronyms and code phrases, like FSS, FUP, EITC, LIHTC, yada yada yada.)
  • Out of Reach 2006: The Gap Between Housing Costs and Income of Poor People in the United States - contains income and rental housing cost data for all fifty states and D.C., by state, metropolitan area, and county; for each, calculates income renters need to afford housing and estimates how many cannot afford to pay Fair Market Rent (FMR), and what they would need to earn to pay the rent and keep their housing costs at 30 percent of their income.
• Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PAI) - organization specializing in housing and other rights of persons with disabilities.
  • Employment, Housing and Transportation Resources
• Rural Housing Services @ USDA
  • Descriptions of Single Family/Multifamily Housing Loans and Grants
  • Multifamily Apartment Search