2021-06-28T10:55:53-07:00 2020-12-31 Richard Watson Jr CPA 8 Metro Lane Sacramento CA 95816 990 2020-01-01 680133565 Housing California Inc HOUS 9164470503 1107 9th Street Suite 560 Sacramento CA 95814 Lisa Hershey Executive Dir. 2021-06-03 true Lisa Hershey 999009999 Richard Watson P00020816 9166060552 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Lisa Hershey 1107 9th Street Suite 560 Sacramento CA 95814 1796373 false X www.housingca.org X 1988 CA Housing California is the leading voice in California's capitol to prevent and end homelessness and increase the variety and supply of safe, stable, accessible and permanently affordable homes in vibrant, inclusive, and prosperous communities. 21 20 12 50 0 3536653 1593441 632353 197691 5107 5241 0 4174113 1796373 550000 0 0 759208 1102651 2666 3875 67620 991790 911380 2303664 2017906 1870449 -221533 3467704 3408115 633155 795099 2834549 2613016 Housing California is the leading voice in California's capitol to prevent and end homelessness and increase the variety and supply of safe, stable, accessible and permanently affordable homes in vibrant, inclusive, and prosperous communities. false false 741648 Changing PolicyHousing California uses its relationships and partnerships to advance policy relating to building vibrant, inclusive, and prosperous communities by focusing on three areas: homelessness, affordable housing finance, and land use. The Organization continually seeks ways to address the structural problems driving high housing costs in California through: tax policy; local control; tenant protections and development challenges. As the foremost statewide voice for affordable housing, homelessness and related issues, Housing California builds on its expertise by connecting affordable housing to other issues such as: climate change; healthcare; and incarceration. In partnership with the California Housing Partnership (CHP) and the California Budget and Policy Center, successfully developed the California Roadmap HOME 2030 initiative to set the course for and implement a plan with a ten-year strategic vision; four goals, a five-pronged transformational, equity-centered framework; and a comprehensive package of fifty-seven evidence-based solutions designed to create system changes and structural reforms essential to realize the California dream with homes, health, and prosperity for all in thriving, sustainable communities. Housing California conducted research, engaged partners, centered racial equity, and built momentum to amplify our shared power for greater impact. Accomplishments during 2020 on the Roadmap included:Convened a thirty-member Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) that reflects Californias diverse geographic, demographic, and housing ecosystem. The PAC advised on policy solutions and gathered stakeholder input, and will support the rollout of the RoadmapConvened a Research Advisory Committee (RAC) with the California Budget & Policy Center and thirteen top academics on housing, homelessness, and displacement. The RAC advised on data collection and analysis methodology and helped ensure that the policy solutions are evidence-based and reflect the latest research.Formed five working groups on affordable housing development, affordable housing efficiency, homelessness, housing instability, and funding sources, to provide feedback on and develop policy proposals.Deployed a complex "hub and spokes" outreach model designed to test proposals and gain buy-in statewide. Through conversations with key leaders in the Governors administration and the Legislature, dozens of multi-sector organizations (e.g., health, government, academia, labor, business, philanthropy), and residents living in affordable housing, Housing California and CHP shared the Roadmap's vision, identified strategic alignment, and garnered critical support.Partnered with Race Forward to ensure racial equity is included in all aspects of the Roadmap, including deep capacity building. As part of this process, two RUN leaders officially joined Housing California, CHP, and the California Budget and Policy Center on the core leadership for the full Roadmap process and on the small racial equity task force leadership team.Partnered with TheCaseMade to build capacity on the use the Roadmap campaign to help shape a new, racial equity and economic inclusion centered housing justice narrative.Other Policy accomplishments included:Advanced twenty-one bills during the 2020 legislative session to increase affordable housing production, address homelessness, and protect low-income people. Opposed five bills that were identified as detrimental to advancing Housing Californias vision.Engaged in critical 2020 budget advocacy. The budget reflected a prioritization of housing and homelessness in light of the pandemic. Housing Californias advocacy helped ensure that the budget included nearly $1 billion to address homelessness and $500 million for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. Housing Californias budget advocacy centered around ensuring there was sufficient funding for Project Homekey operations and programs beyond Project Homekey. Our advocacy helped secure $50 million for operations dedicated from the general fund and $300 million for the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program.In partnership with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, coordinated a webinar early in the pandemic to create space for partners covering the homelessness response to COVID-19, and the legislative budget process, to learn and discuss this destabilizing and constantly changing landscape. Supported the Governor in creating a first in the nation program, Project Roomkey, to quickly move homeless off the streets and into shelter while also advocating for permanent solutions. Strengthened relationships with the Governor's office and deputy secretaries on housing and homelessness and provided top-level strategic thinking and technical assistance on homelessness and affordable housing programs. Housing California is recognized as an important advisor in these areas. 603858 Shifting and Building PowerHousing California builds power through multi-sector coalitions and community organizing networks and believes that many of the greatest opportunities for funding and policy change lie at the intersection of housing and other social issues, including criminal justice, health care, climate change, transportation, education and child welfare. The Organization works diligently to bring non-housing groups into its work, educate them about the role affordable housing and homelessness plays as an aid or hindrance for the goals they are trying to achieve, and engage them as housing justice advocates. Housing California also believes that by developing resident leaders who have historically been excluded from decision-making tables, providing a mutual and respectful space for action, and uniting resident leaders with non-profit housing developers and service providers, a powerful and influential force can be created for housing justice in California. The Organization plays a key role in uniting non-traditional partners and resident leaders through coalitions and networks which learn from each other and identify actions to heal historically broken relationships and collectively advance broader social equity and environmental justice solutions, including poverty, climate change, health, displacement, homelessness and incarceration. Activities during 2020 included:Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our annual, in-person conference scheduled for April 2020 in San Diego was canceled. Housing California made an enormous pivot to plan, fund-raise, and implement its first-ever virtual Housing CA Un-conference at the end of August. This event brought over 1,400 affordable housing developers, homeless service providers, resident leaders, legislators and their staffers, the Governor, and his administrator leaders as well as other multi-sector leaders from throughout the state to address the 2020 theme - Our Homes. Our Voice. The five-day event featured twenty-seven separate events. Housing California also increased accessibility by including Spanish and ASL interpretation as well as closed captioning. Continued to work with the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and long-time partner Corporation for Supportive Housing, to link, leverage, and inform federal advocacy. Served as the lead organization in Californias Opportunity Starts at Home, a multi-sector national campaign to collectively advance federal housing solutions to meet the rental housing needs of residents struggling to make ends meet.Served as the only member representing homelessness and affordable housing on the Census Policy Advocacy Network, a collaborative effort among statewide organizations to educate policymakers and community leaders and shape 2020 Census policy. This advocacy contributed to $187 million in state funding allocations to help with California's outreach and engagement of hard to count people in hard to count places. Our Executive Director continued to serve as a on the Governor-appointed California Complete Count Committee.Continued to actively engage in investAHSC, a statewide, multi-sector coalition that evolved in 2019 out of our multi-sector, equity-centered Sustainable Communities for All coalition, to ensure that the State continues to protect the twenty-percent continuous appropriation of the Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. This work keeps Housing California actively engaged in Californias climate change efforts.Residents United Network (RUN) shifted to an entirely virtual program which included a significant shift in RUN's training and organizing models. Weekly Community Care calls provided regular opportunities to support and train our most active leaders.In spring 2020, RUN hosted six regional convenings for 150 participants focused on the originally planned for in-person March 2020 Lobby Day in Sacramento, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Ana, and Madera with a video call-in from Stockton.Continued to work toward formalizing and refining RUNs leadership ladder which will allow regional coordinators to assess where their resident leaders are in their leadership development, determine where they want to move their leaders, and what support they will need to do so.Increased the capacity of six regional partners to support and sustain RUN infrastructure and build greater resident power in state policymaking by providing significant pass-through funds, encouraging increased coordination, and providing training opportunities.To support the passage of three priority bills, resident leaders engaged in district visits, created twenty videos in English and Spanish aimed at target policymakers, and sent emails, made calls, testified virtually, and held virtual legislative visits to share resident stories, advocate for the bills, and hold their legislators accountable. 357965 Shaping the NarrativeHousing and homelessness are tremendously complex topics, making it difficult to craft a comprehensive message. Housing California must first shift Californias housing and homelessness dominant narrative from a problem-focused, individual blame frame to a solutions-oriented, societal change frame in order to advocate more effectively for bold systems change solutions that create homes, health, and prosperity for all. Housing California must convey the various ways that housing and homelessness policy can deliver tangible public benefits, thereby increasing public demand for change in order to advocate more effectively for progressive affordable housing and homelessness policy changes.Activities during 2020 included:Secured twenty-six radio and print earned media placements across the state, including two op-eds.Gained 1,181 email subscribers, 493 Twitter followers, and 152 Facebook likes.Presented at more than eleven local, regional, state and national convenings including, but not limited, to - Capitol Weekly's Conference on Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition's National Call on Coronavirus and Homelessness/Housing, SDHF's Annual Conference, CARA Convening, USF master's in public health class about homelessness, SCANPH's Annual Virtual Conference, NACEDA Summit 2020, CCRH's virtual Rural Housing Summit, EAH Ballot Party, Sacramento Housing Alliance Annual Conference, Funders Together to End Homelessness Convening: Using Policy to Re-Imagine Homelessness and Housing Systems in California. Several Housing CA staff also presented during Housing Californias first-ever virtual un-conference.In partnership with our strategic communications consulting firm, Spitfire Strategies, held a capacity building webinar titled How to Win Media Coverage for Housing Affordability and Homelessness, to help grow expertise in the field statewide. Continued to advance a comprehensive website redesign process, including two special micro-sites featuring the first ever 2020 Housing CA unconference, and the CA Roadmap Home 2030.The Organizations primary means of communication include its website www.housingca.org, newsletter (8,083 subscribers), Facebook (2,993 followers and 2,642 likes), and Twitter (5,158 followers). 1703471 true true false true false false false false false false true false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true 16 0 true 12 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 21 20 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X Lisa Hershey 9164470503 1107 9th Street Suite 560 Sacramento CA 95814 Lisa Hershey Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X X 152049 0 4500 Roberto Jimenez Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bill Pickel Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tom Collishaw Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Chione Flegal President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 David Howden Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Murtaza Baxamusa Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Willie Stevens Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Holly Benson Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Alfred Diaz-Infante Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Arnulfo Manriquez Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Va Lecia Adams Kellum Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Amie Fishman Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lisa Motoyama Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rachelle Reyes-Wenger Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Fernando Gaytan Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Joyce Roberts Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Carol Ornelas Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Sarah Ropelato Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Stephen Russell Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tunua Thrash-Ntuk Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 152049 4500 1 false true false Spitfire Strategies LLC 2300 N Street NW Suite 610 Washington DC 20037 Communication strategies 196013 William Pitkin 8516 Shoup Avenue West Hills CA 91304 Project manager 120738 2 67349 144085 1382007 1593441 Conference registrations 611600 197691 197691 197691 5241 5241 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1796373 197691 5241 X 0 0 0 0 152049 129549 15000 7500 0 781579 664035 78363 39181 21927 18638 2193 1096 71279 60586 7129 3564 75817 64444 7582 3791 0 11165 11165 32890 32890 0 3875 3875 0 602256 527255 75001 0 56308 47862 5639 2807 0 0 64040 54434 6404 3202 22228 19505 1760 963 0 85653 84046 1071 536 0 0 7347 6245 735 367 5233 4448 523 262 Meeting expense 13848 13391 457 Printing and Publications 6230 5296 623 311 Postage and Shipping 1671 1604 27 40 Bank and payroll fees 1661 1411 167 83 850 722 86 42 2017906 1703471 246815 67620 0 1073245 2388251 2123000 325000 5316 3604 0 0 200000 300000 0 47329 39370 58696 47339 10823 11357 0 0 0 0 7991 340533 3467704 3408115 83155 174818 550000 275000 345281 633155 795099 X 811668 1383502 2022881 1229514 2834549 2613016 3467704 3408115 -221533 X false true X true false X 1132506 1061561 1180208 3536653 1593441 8504369 0 0 1132506 1061561 1180208 3536653 1593441 8504369 4439845 4064524 4858 5057 5132 5107 5241 25395 0 0 8529764 0.47650 0.49970 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 196514 196514 1506957 1703471 235174 58794 false 183158 216914 255779 235174 891025 1336538 56774 131495 201948 196514 586731 45790 54229 63945 58794 222758 334137 33979 23592 10387 24717 23747 970 11357 Deposits 750 Interest receivable 7241 Right-of-use lease 332542 340533 Lease liability 345281 345281 X 1796373 1796373 1796373 2017906 2017906 2017906 Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Organization is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is exempt from state franchise and income taxes under Section 23701(d) of the California and Revenue Taxation Code. 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