Council of Community Housing Organizations

04/12/2026

For five years, Prop I has raised over $400 million from San Francisco's biggest real estate deals. The Affordable Housing Guarantee Act ensures every dollar goes where it was always meant to go — building and protecting affordable homes for the people who make this city run. We need your help to get this on the ballot — share this post with your friends!

03/03/2026

San Francisco cannot solve a housing affordability crisis by cutting the funding that makes affordable housing possible.

The question is not whether we support growth.

The question is whether we are building a city rooted in people — or one organized primarily around capital.

The answer will not be found in slogans.
It will be found in the budget.

If affordability is the goal, why are we cutting the funding that makes it possible?

02/19/2026

When extraordinary gains accrue to a small group of people, housing is one of the first places that money lands. Unless we deliberately recirculate that wealth through taxation and public investment, the result is predictable: higher prices, tighter competition, and displacement pressures that spread far beyond the luxury segment.

Housing markets mirror income hierarchies. If we don’t redistribute power and capital, we will simply build taller hierarchies.

2026 is not a spectator year.
This is the year we decide who San Francisco is for.

Zoning Creates Capacity. Funding Creates Affordability.

02/02/2026

You can’t build an affordable city by cutting the very tools that create it. Eliminating housing funds doesn’t lower costs—it just lines the pockets of wealthy investors while leaving our seniors and working families behind.
At CCHO, we believe housing abundance should benefit the many, not the few. Real progress requires public investment and accountability, not the same old trickle-down tactics. That’s not real abundance, it’s austerity with better branding.
Read our newest Substack for more, link in bio.

02/02/2026

If we are serious about building housing at scale—housing people can afford, housing that stabilizes communities, housing that does not depend on displacement—then we have to be equally serious about how it gets paid for. You cannot build what you refuse to fund.

Zoning determines what can be built. Funding determines what will be built. Imagination matters—but imagination without investment is just wishful thinking.

Why cutting housing revenue in a moment of scarcity guarantees failure

02/02/2026

If we are serious about building housing at scale—housing people can afford, housing that stabilizes communities, housing that does not depend on displacement—then we have to be equally serious about how it gets paid for. You cannot build what you refuse to fund.

Zoning determines what can be built. Funding determines what will be built. Imagination matters—but imagination without investment is just wishful thinking.

01/31/2026

Housing justice is racial justice. At CCHO, we believe housing is a human right—and there is nothing “stable” or “affordable” about a home lived in fear of ICE raids, police brutality, or state violence. We stand with our neighbors to defend sanctuary, protect our communities, and demand safety, dignity, and justice for all.

01/29/2026

Letter to the Editor: Lowering housing taxes doesn’t guarantee lower rents or more homes people can actually afford. Cutting inclusionary requirements and public fees risks higher developer profits, higher land prices, and fewer resources for the services our communities rely on. San Francisco needs more affordable housing, not giveaways that double down on market-rate development.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Chronicle readers comment on building housing in San Francisco, school assignments, suing the Trump administration and campaign financing.

01/28/2026

Affordable senior housing at 3333 Mission is under threat of appeal. Take action to stop the delay and support housing, community space, and seniors in the Mission-Bernal corridor. Take action by signing a petition calling to drop the appeal: bhnc.org/test-petition

01/15/2026

There is a real opportunity right now to redefine how we solve the housing crisis.

Too often, we’re told we must choose between building housing and advancing justice. At CCHO, we believe that’s a false divide — and that lasting solutions require both.

In a new op-ed for Inside Philanthropy, we share a vision for housing solutions that center community, dignity, and equity while supporting the production our cities need. Read more at Inside Philanthropy.

That funders should stop supporting housing justice organizations in the name of boosting production is a “false and ultimately destructive choice,” guest author Quintin Mecke writes.

12/31/2025

Grateful for the support that helped us build momentum in 2025 — and excited to look ahead to 2026 with new investments in tenant power, language access, and housing justice.