SHA Annual Highlights
2022
Protecting Communities
SHA, as a member of Sacramento Investment Without Displacement, successfully advocated for the city of Sacramento to mitigate potential negative impacts, such as displacement, on the surrounding neighborhood, and worked to ensure that existing residents benefited from significant new major developments, with developers making a large contribution to affordable housing. SHA also helped the city of Sacramento to become the state’s first Prohousing-designated municipality.
2021
Policies and Programs
SHA reviewed housing elements throughout the Sacramento region, evaluating them for compliance with state law and checking to ensure they were responsive to local needs, such as whether the jurisdiction had adequate sites for development and policies and programs to promote the construction and preservation of affordable housing for individuals and families living on low-income wages.
2020
Affordable Housing During COVID-19
SHA produced Affordable Housing COVID-19 policy recommendations for local governments in the region to get people off the streets, keep others in their homes, and continue critical funding to support affordable housing development. We urged jurisdictions in the Sacramento region to make significant affordable housing investments during the pandemic, such as emergency housing assistance for the unhoused, rental assistance, extension of the eviction moratorium, support for nonprofit housing developers and continued funding for new affordable homes.
2019
Affordable Housing Bus Tours
SHA’s advocacy led to the city of Sacramento’s authorized issuance of a $100 million affordable housing bond. Authorization for the bond was delayed, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We conducted two Affordable Housing Bus Tours for staff and elected representatives of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and the State Department of Housing and Community Development representatives and staff.
Press & SHA Updates
Housing in the Capital: Cathy Creswell and Jordan Grimaldi on the intersectional benefits of investing in transit and active transportation
In a neighborhood called Mirasol Village, a new light rail stop was planned as part of a newly opened mixed-income housing
Housing in the Capital: Nur Kausar and Jonathan Cook on the importance of prohousing leadership and the ‘long-term’ investment in affordable housing
Nur Kausar works for EAH Housing as a business development manager. EAH is a nonprofit, affordable housing developer and manager with more than
2023 California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness
The California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH), conducted by The University of California, San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Press & SHA Updates
Expanding Revenue to Local Jurisdictions’ Housing Trust Funds
Sacramento Housing Alliance (SHA) has spent over a year investigating the best mechanisms for Sacramento to end and prevent homelessness. Our April 2016 working paper on
Politifact: “Dispelling Myths About California’s Homeless”
Politifact, June 28, 2018 "Dispelling Myths About California's Homeless" Sarah Backus lives in a tent on the streets of Sacramento. The 56-year-old mother of three said
Comstock: “Sacramento Needs Rent Control”
Comstock, June 11, 2018 "Sacramento Needs Rent Control" by SHA Board President Cathy Creswell Between 2016 and 2017, Sacramento suffered a staggering average 9.9 percent rent
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