Housing Advocacy Network

The Housing Advocacy Network (formerly The Nine-County Advocacy Network) started in 1996 when NPH received a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of  Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to work on community acceptance strategies for affordable housing. The Housing Advocacy Network works on local, regional and state housing campaigns and issues. The Network provides an opportunity for local groups to work together to meet regional housing goals.In order to build and increase local capacity for community advocacy and education, NPH redistributed the grant to county-level housing advocacy coalitions. Representatives from these local housing advocacy organizations formed the Community Acceptance Strategies Consortium (CASC). At the end of the grant period, CASC decided to continue as a regionally entity and became the Nine-County Advocacy Network. Campaigns and projects of the Housing Advocacy Network include:

• Siting of Homeless Housing and Services: Best Practices for Community Acceptance (1999)
• Fair Share Housing Element Campaign (2000)
• Inclusionary Housing Initiative (2004)
• Proposition 46 (2002), Proposition 1C (2006) and the California Homes and Jobs Act (current)
• Affordable Housing Week (annual)
• “Boomerang” Campaigns – recapturing tax increment dollars for affordable housing (current)
• Housing Impact Fees (current)

For more information, please contact Pilar Lorenzana-Campo at pilar (at) nonprofithousing.org.