“If you build it, they will come,” or so the saying goes, but how about adding: “If you preserve it, they will stay?” Affordable housing preservation is a powerful tool for ensuring that homes remain affordable to working and low-income families, provides benefits that rent stabilization alone cannot, and is also a homelessness prevention strategy. This panel presentation will share three different models of affordable housing preservation, also known as “acquisition-rehabilitation,” that have been utilized in the South Bay in recent years and will discuss the important role that various kinds of affordable housing groups, the public sector, and philanthropic groups can play in enabling this critical work. Speakers will include:
Heather Bromfield (moderator), Senior Program Director of Preservation, Enterprise Community Partners
Kate Comfort Harr, Executive Director, HIP Housing
Josefina Aguilar, Executive Director, South Bay Community Land Trust
Felix AuYeung, Vice President of Business Development, MidPen Housing