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May 2021
How Going Virtual Empowered Services!
COVID provided an opportunity to explore and expand how we engaged with residents and how we offered services as we shifted from in-person to virtual programming. Providing a program virtually came with its own set of challenges. It also allowed us to slow down and engage in ways that offered psychological safety and inner strength to support our physical safety during a national pandemic. We have learned that we can create a culture where people feel safe, engaged, and deeply…
Read More »Mercy Housing: Bridging the Divide After Party
Don’t miss out on the after party of the season! Let loose with other Mercy Housing California fans, and win the trivia contest to decide where the pot gets donated: choose from youth empowerment programs, services for people exiting homelessness, and more! Special guest appearance by Van Jones.
Read More »Exclusive Virtual Tour: Coliseum Place
Come tour an affordable housing construction site without having to take off your WFH slippers! Join ELPN for a virtual tour of Resources for Community Development's Coliseum Place, hosted by David Baker Architects. How do buildings evolve during construction? How can I shepherd our team's intent all the way through to a completed building? With a combination of live onsite video conferencing and remote presentation, we will introduce the project, including it's core goals of providing deep affordability and sustainability…
Read More »Advancing the 3P’s through the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority
Join NPH for a webinar that will discuss how the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA), created in 2019 by AB 1487 (Chiu) to provide the 9-county Bay Area with regional housing infrastructure. The webinar will explore how BAHFA can help address the region’s housing and displacement crises beyond what the Bay Area would otherwise be able to do without the opportunities presented by BAHFA. Register
Read More »ULI San Francisco: Mobilizing Project Homekey Through Modular – A Case Study (Housing the Bay Lead-Up)
Launched by the State as a response to the impacts of COVID on homelessness in California, Project Homekey is most known for turning hotels and motels into homeless housing. But Project Homekey also provided funds for innovative new build projects that could pull together resources and deliver housing under a very tight deadline. One such project, Homekey LifeMoves|Mountain View used a new delivery model and close collaboration between the developer, the city, consultants, and key funders and stakeholders to transform…
Read More »Everything You Want to Know About Loan Documents
Join ELPN and Goldfarb & Lipman LLP for a virtual brownbag to help you review and negotiate loan documents, such as loan agreements, regulatory agreements, promissory notes, deeds of trust, and assignment agreements from multiple lenders. Learn how to communicate your organization’s goals to your lenders, attorneys and deal participants. This workshop gives you the opportunity to strengthen fundamental understanding of the various loan documents (e.g., loan agreement, regulatory agreement, DOT, guaranty etc.) involved in an affordable housing project closing…
Read More »June 2021
ULI San Francisco: Housing the Bay 2021 Summit (virtual)
Registration is open for ULI SF’s 4th Annual Housing the Bay Summit held virtually from June 2 - 4! For four year's ULI has been exploring new solutions to break through housing roadblocks, improve housing affordability, and ensure more people have access to the housing they need through ULI SF's Housing the Bay Initiative. Guided by ULI's members’ expertise in development and finance, policy and governance, community engagement and equity, ULI are building new possibilities and new solutions - while…
Read More »Understanding the Effects of Trauma and Stress
To be in service to others does not mean to be in sacrifice to oneself. There is growing evidence that the impact of directly supporting others through experiences of trauma, oppression, and poverty, goes beyond burnout or fatigue. The toll of constantly witnessing and holding space for heavily charged human emotions and experiences can distort views about the self, the world, and the future. Individuals who have chosen to be in service to others, often sacrifice their mental, physical, emotional,…
Read More »Combatting Racial Segregation through Regional Policies
The Bay Area is more segregated today than it was in 1970, according to recent analysis by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley. Join a panel of regional researchers, policy advocates, and practitioners to discuss the ongoing residential segregation that threatens the ability of our region to thrive and to hear from advocates and practitioners about recent wins and what some of the upcoming opportunities in regional policy and implementation will be to move…
Read More »July 2021
Anchoring in Restorative Practices to Heal
To be in service to others does not mean to be in sacrifice to oneself. There is growing evidence that the impact of directly supporting others through experiences of trauma, oppression, and poverty, goes beyond burnout or fatigue. The toll of constantly witnessing and holding space for heavily charged human emotions and experiences can distort views about the self, the world, and the future. Individuals who have chosen to be in service to others, often sacrifice their mental, physical, emotional,…
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