About

Mission

Sacramento Housing Alliance advances opportunities to build and preserve affordable homes for lower-income residents of the greater Sacramento region. SHA educates, leads, and promotes policy change to create housing choice.

Our Region

The Sacramento Housing Alliance Represents the Greater Sacramento Region: Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, Sutter, Yuba, and El Dorado Counties.

Vision

Everyone in the Sacramento region has a dignified and affordable place to call home.

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Pillars/Values

  • Dignity: Housing is a human right.
  • Invest: Ensure funding to build and preserve affordable homes commensurate with our needs.
  • Education: Providing policy expertise for regional elected officials, policymakers and community and community members.
  • Sustainability: Creating structural change to benefit low income and communities of color.
  • Equity: End racial and economic discrimination in housing and address impacts of historic discrimination
  • Leadership: Build strong coalitions with community organizations and partners
  • End Homelessness: Building safe, affordable homes is how we end homelessness.
  • Social Justice: Ensure investments in affordable housing benefit our most vulnerable neighbors.
  • Inclusion: Create an organizational culture of racial equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging that informs our policy work.

Staff

Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook

Executive Director
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Arman Zarinebaf

Arman Zarinebaf

Executive Assistant
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Board of Directors

Officers

Cathy Creswell

Cathy Creswell

Co-President, At Large
Nur Kausar

Nur Kausar

Co-President, EAH Housing
Rachel Smith

Rachel Mueller

Vice President, Public Interest Advocates
Valerie Feldman

Valerie Feldman

Secretary, California Administrative Law Judge
Jennifer Fleming Sebastian

Jennifer Fleming Sebastian

Treasurer, At Large

Directors

Stephan Daues

Stephan Daues

Stephan Daues Consulting
Tamie Dramer

Tamie A. Dramer

Organize Sacramento
Gabriela Herrera

Gabriela Herrera

SACOG
Richard Ciraulo

Richard Ciraulo

Mercy Housing
Nicole Restmeyer

Nicole Restmeyer

California State Assembly
April Ludwig

April Ludwig

Hope Cooperative
Gianna Marasovich

Gianna Marasovich

Board Member