2019-07-01T16:09:36-07:00 2018-12-31 262327737 Richard Watson Jr CPA 8 Metro Lane Sacramento CA 958164396 990 2018-01-01 680133565 Housing California Inc HOUS 9164470503 1107 9th Street Suite 560 Sacramento CA 95814 Lisa Hershey Executive Dir. 2019-06-27 true Richard Watson P00020816 9166060552 X 2018 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Lisa Hershey 1107 9th Street Suite 560 Sacramento CA 95814 1681828 false false X www.housingca.org X 1988 CA Housing California is the leading voice in California's Capitol on affordable homes and budget policy for homeless and low-income people. 21 20 9 40 0 8432 1061561 1180208 423470 496488 5057 5132 0 1490088 1681828 0 0 555904 733478 6006 53843 684435 801002 1240339 1540486 249749 141342 893191 1051967 70433 87867 822758 964100 Housing California is the leading voice in California's Capitol on affordable homes and budget policy for homeless and low-income people. Its mission is to prevent homelessness and to increase the supply of decent, safe, accessible and permanently affordable homes for the homeless and very low-income Californians. false false 736521 Amplify Organizational Impact though Multi-Sector Coalitions and NetworksHousing California 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. The Organization plays a key role in uniting non-traditional partners 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. During 2018, Housing California organized its largest and most successful conference to-date with almost 1,700 participants and seventy-three workshops; expanded the leadership capacity of, and infrastructure for, the Residents United Network (RUN), a statewide network of affordable development resident leaders; and initiated efforts to expand RUN into the Inland Empire by building relationships with affordable housing developers, civic engagement, grassroots, academic institutions, and policy advocacy organizations. Housing California and partners developed a robust evaluation framework and set of tools for RUN which will continue to help inform the articulation of, and validation for, RUNs theory of change.Housing California also organized and implemented the following RUN-related leadership development and capacity building activities: web-based trainings; in-person cross-trainings with resident leadership programs in other states; multiple in-district and capitol visits to key legislators from across the state; social media efforts; two sets of regional meetings; and a statewide summit.Additional activities included: becoming a member of Californias leadership entity for Opportunity Starts at Home - a national multi-sector initiative whose goal is to meet the rental housing needs of the nations low-income people by advancing federal housing solutions which bridge the gap between income and housing costs, providing aid to people experiencing economic shocks, expanding the affordable housing stock for low-income renters and defending existing affordable housing resources; Housing Californias Executive Director was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the California Complete Count Committee which is tasked with recommending strategies to increase the count among hard to count communities; participated in the Public Health Institutes statewide health and housing collaborative which is comprised of health, tenants rights, and affordable housing partners for the purpose of developing opportunities to collectively advance shared housing as health policy priorities. 391988 Inform and Advance PolicyHousing California uses its relationships and partnerships to advance policy relating to building healthy communities by focusing on three areas: housing funding; homelessness policy; 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. During 2018, the collective action of Housing California and its partners resulted in advancing critical statewide campaigns and the passage of affordable housing and homeless-related bills, including: - Co-leading the overarching statewide campaign for Proposition 1, the $4 billion Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act, and Proposition 2, the $2 billion No Place Like Home Act. RUN leaders conducted voter outreach and the campaigns garnered unprecedented support.- Engaging in Make it Fair, now known as the Schools and Communities First Act Campaign's executive, steering and communications committees to reform Proposition 13 by reassessing commercial property at market value in order to generate approximately $11 billion in revenue for the State of California. - Successfully advancing six bills to become law - the Homeless Youth Act of 2018; Supportive Housing Streamlining; birth certificate fee waivers for individuals experiencing homelessness; prohibition on refusing third-party rent payments; increasing notice of eviction to renters to three business days; and a state version of the federal Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.Housing California also: developed and executed a plan to make affordable housing and homelessness top issues in the 2018 gubernatorial campaign and secured $770 million in the 2018 state budget to address homelessness; expanded administrative advocacy of cross-sector issues including climate investments and helped to secure $90 million in the 2018 budget through the Census Policy Advocacy Network for 2020 Census outreach and advocacy; ensured successful implementation of the 2017 Housing Package; co-published with Corporation for Supportive Housing the 2018 Policy Brief: California State Funding to Address Homelessness and held an accompanying webinar to share best practices for communities to utilize the funding provided for homelessness in the California budget.Other activities helping to inform and advance housing policy included: held seven regional homeless policy summits throughout the state in the fall of 2018 to communicate Housing Californias 2019-20 agenda and share best practices for communities to use the $770 million allotted for homelessness in the budget. These conversations included over seventy leaders on homelessness, including Housing California Board members, service providers, advocates, public sector staff, continuums of care, developers, and elected officials from six different regions (San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland, and San Francisco). Planning began on a statewide Homeless Policy Summit as part of Housing Californias 2019 Annual Conference. 222776 Communication StrategiesHousing is a tremendously complex topic, making it difficult to craft a comprehensive message. Housing California must first convey the various ways that housing policy can deliver tangible public benefits, thereby increasing public demand for change. Activities during 2018 included: Housing California was invited to present at more than twelve local, regional, state and national meetings including, but not limited to - Green California Summit, the Smart Growth Funders Collaborative, the Yosemite Policymakers Conference, the San Joaquin Valley Housing Collaborative Housing Policy Workshop, American Planning Association California Conference, California Adaptation Forum, NPHs annual conference, the San Joaquin Valley Affordable Housing Summit, SCANPHs annual conference, San Diego Housing Federations annual conference, a housing forum in the Coachella Valley, the Western Center on Law and Poverty and California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's biennial Housing Policy Summit, and CCRHs Rural Housing Summit.The Organization began conversations with key communications experts from across the nation to explore the feasibility of collaborating with philanthropic partners to create a housing message that educates Californians about effective housing policy. This work will officially kick off in 2019.The Organizations primary means of communication include its website www.housingca.org, newsletter (8,083 subscribers), Facebook followers (1,889 followers and 1,895 likes), and Twitter followers (3,661 followers). 1351285 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false true false true 18 0 true 9 true true true false false false false false false 0 false false false false false 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 Zelenne Cardenas Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kirk Allen Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tom Collisaw Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Chione Flegal Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 David Howden Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Murtaza Baxamusa Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rich Gross Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Alan Greenlee Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Alfred Diaz-Infante Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Arnulfo Manriquez President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Hellen Hong 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 Lisa Hershey Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X X 123042 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 Vicky Ramirez 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 123042 1 false false false 0 81790 1098418 1180208 Conference registrations 611600 496488 496488 496488 5132 5132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1681828 496488 5132 X 0 0 0 0 123042 105042 12000 6000 0 494188 413431 55895 24862 19613 16474 2157 982 45031 37826 4954 2251 51604 43347 5676 2581 0 1610 1610 26700 26700 0 6006 6006 0 209733 209733 0 47038 39513 5174 2351 0 0 59056 49607 6496 2953 62967 52893 6927 3147 0 349674 347785 1298 591 0 0 2916 2449 321 146 4750 3991 523 236 Meeting expense 25168 21141 2768 1259 Printing and Publications 8950 7519 985 446 Unrelated business income tax 1771 1771 Postage and Shipping 636 534 70 32 33 33 1540486 1351285 135358 53843 0 318134 707893 337250 85000 1495 0 0 200000 200000 0 26149 40068 42932 34613 2816 8319 0 0 0 0 8842 9192 893191 1051967 70433 87867 70433 87867 X 366161 478667 456597 485433 822758 964100 893191 1051967 141342 X false true X true false X 1065713 792265 1132506 1061561 1180208 5232253 0 0 1065713 792265 1132506 1061561 1180208 5232253 2253510 2978743 3585 3742 4858 5057 5132 22374 0 2800 2800 5257427 0.56660 0.50660 X false false 131495 131495 1287649 1419144 216914 54229 false 185055 183917 183158 216914 769044 1153566 16207 7985 56774 131495 212461 46264 45979 45790 54229 192262 288393 19403 11664 7739 23529 22949 580 8319 X 1681828 1681828 1681828 1540486 1540486 1540486 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. The Organization is subject to Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) for amounts paid for any qualified transportation fringe benefits as defined in Section 132(f) of the Internal Revenue Code. During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, UBIT was $1,771 and $0, respectively.The Organization recognizes the financial statement effects from a tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by taxing authorities based on the technical merits of the position. Examples of tax positions include the tax-exempt status of the Organization and various positions relating to potential sources of unrelated business income. The Organization has analyzed its tax positions taken for filings with the Internal Revenue Service and believes that its positions will be sustained upon examination.The Organizations federal Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (Form 990) for 2018, 2017 and 2016, are subject to examination by the IRS, generally for three years after they were filed. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process A PDF copy of Form 990 is emailed to the board of directors prior to submission to the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts An annual disclosure statement is signed. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Compensation from comparable organizations is reviewed in determining salary levels. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Upon request. 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