July 2008 CHC Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 7

Inside this newsletter…

Executive Director Report: State and Federal Mid-Year Housing Policy Update; New Center for Housing Policy Resources; Farm Worker Housing
Given the record pace lately of various housing bills in the legislature, it’s perhaps not difficult to see the analogy to this especially dangerous wildfire season for California.  Fueled by the steady pace of housing foreclosures, crippled by constrained capital markets, and uncertain in the face of the politically-contentious state budget battle looming on the horizon, our housing picture may be hazy but there’s also reason for hope...

CHC Washington Affiliate Center for Housing Policy Inaugurates Resourceful New Website of State and Local Housing Solutions
CHC is proud to be one of only two regional affiliates of the National Housing Conference (NHC), the Washington D.C.-based housing advocacy organization that for over 75 years has led the way on enlightened housing and community development policies on a federal level...

CHC Member Project Profile: Self-Help Enterprises’ Sand Creek
With their Sand Creek development, Self-Help Enterprises is addressing the tremendous need of an unincorporated farm worker community in Tulare County which has one of the highest rates of poverty in California...

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