  Affordable Housing Week
May 11th to May 17th, 2008 SPONSORS
The North Bay Business Journal Press Democrat Celebrate Community Exchange Bank First Community Bank Luther Burbank Savings North Bay Association of Realtors NVB Business Bank Sonoma Bank Summit State Bank Westamerica Bank PARTNERS Accountable Development Coalition Buckelew Programs Burbank Housing Committee on The Shelterless Community Housing Sonoma County EAH Housing Inc. Habitat for Humanity Housing Land Trust Northbay Family Homes Oakmont Senior Living Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Sonoma County Community Development Commission Sonoma County Asthma Coalition Sonoma County Taskforce for the Homeless 
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DON’T MISS! $35 per person, Elected Officials and one city/county staff may
attend at no charge. Please RSVP to kathygoodacre@sbcglobal.net Special Workshop, Winning Community and Political Acceptance
Housing
Advocacy Teach-In, “How to get more affordable housing in your
town” ~~~ Join now as a partner for Affordable Housing Week and receive all announcements, invitations and notices for Affordable Housing Week and join the list of early partners and sponsors to be acknowledged in all outreach, publicity, and web communications. Partners provide $125 (non-profit/small business) $250 (employers over 50) and agree to: help support and promote Affordable Housing Week by hosting an event during the week: provide links to Sonoma County Housing Coalition website, and forward emails and other promotional material. Partners receive: Annual membership to the Sonoma County Housing Coalition (SCHC); two admissions to the annual Leadership Breakfast and all other events hosted by SCHC throughout the year; and recognition on SCHC website and through all outreach and communications promoting Affordable Housing Week. For more information contact Kathy Goodacre, Affordable Housing Week Coordinator, at (707)537-1679, kathygoodacre@sbcglobal.net ~~~ Director Jacobs' position includes oversight for administering the state's housing finance, rehabilitation, and community development programs; oversight of the state's housing policy, planning and code-setting processes, and regulating manufactured housing and mobilehome parks. The Director leads the administration of $2.1 billion in Proposition 46 and $2.85 billion in Proposition 1C bond funds for affordable housing. Since January 2004, $1.6 billion has been awarded and has incentivized or created more than 100,000 affordable homes and shelter spaces for Californians. Before accepting the Governor's appointment, Lynn was the founder and President of Ventura Affordable Homes, which develops single-family homes for first-time homebuyers under various affordable housing programs. She developed homes for more than 20 years, building more than 400 homes in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties alone. Lynn was awarded a certificate of completion for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education in June 2007. Before starting Ventura Affordable Homes, Lynn founded and served as President of Affordable Communities in Ventura County. She served as President of the Building Industry Association/Southern California Greater Los Angeles/Ventura Chapter in 2000 and is on the Board of Directors for the California Building Industry Association. Lynn has written numerous articles for publications and received many awards including the National Building Innovations in Affordable Housing Award in 1997. She remains very involved in the community as a member of the Benefactors of Community Memorial Hospital, a member of Soroptimist International of Ventura, and the Assistance League of Ventura County. She served as Planning Commissioner and as a member of the Design Review Committee of the City of Ventura. Erik Sten As a Living Cities Distinguished Urban Fellow, Sten will spend
the next year working on holistic strategies for U.S.cities with
a particular focus on the Bay Area. Living Cities is the largest
philanthropic collaborative in the country focused on urban issues.
It includes nine of the largest foundations and five of the largest
corporations in the world; and the partnership is largely driven
by the chief executive officers and senior management at these institutions.
The Living Cities approach is to pool the resources and influences
of its members to affect systemic and systematic reform at the local
level. Please visit this page often for updated information.
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Lynn
Jacobs, Director of CA Department of Housing & Community
Development, who is leading the statewide effort to establish a
"Permanent Source" of revenue for California's housing
trust fund.
Eric
Sten, Portland City Commissioner and newly appointed Fellow
for the national, non-profit affordable housing organization, Living
Cities. Mr. Sten will share the innovative practices and programs
for affordable housing that are working in Portland and what they
learned along the way. (
Debra
Stein, President of GCA Strategies and author of several books on
NIMBYism, who will provide practical strategies for building community
support for controversial land use projects and how to translate
public attitudes into political action.