San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

Our CEO Rebecca Center Foster and VP of Lending and Policy Caroline McCormack were thrilled to participate in the California Coalition for Community Investment CCCI Summit and Advocacy Day. Now, more than ever, it is important to highlight the work of CDFIs and our community based partners in financing affordable housing, small businesses, and social services across the state.

We love teaming up to talk solutions and scale what works! Pleasure paneling with you, Destination: Home, ?? Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, ??Nonprofit Finance Fund ??LifeArk, SPC. ??Sasha Wisotsky Kergan ??Ray Bramson ??Jennifer Kawar ??Sean D. Doss ??Rebecca Center Foster?? Paul Cho #HousingCA2025

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Happy Valentine's Day to our partners and supporters! ?? We LOVE working with you to build and preserve the homes our communities need. Some recent highlights: Congratulations to TNDC for purchasing the 108-unit Normandy Apartments in partnership with the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, with bridge financing from HAF. This acquisition will provide 108 permanently affordable homes in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood for a wide range of community members including families and older adults.?https://lnkd.in/gC54kdWr And congratulations to Freedom West Homes, Bayview Hunters Point Senior Services, and The John Stewart Company for moving forward with 115 affordable senior homes in the Fillmore with a predevelopment loan from HAF. This building will be part of the larger Freedom West 2.0 project, a resident-led effort to revitalize Freedom West and empower the broader Fillmore community.

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Happy Valentine's Day to our partners and supporters! ?? We LOVE working with you to build and preserve the homes our communities need. Some recent highlights: Congratulations to TNDC for purchasing the 108-unit Normandy Apartments in partnership with the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, with bridge financing from HAF. This acquisition will provide 108 permanently affordable homes in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood for a wide range of community members including families and older adults.?https://lnkd.in/gC54kdWr And congratulations to Freedom West Homes, Bayview Hunters Point Senior Services, and The John Stewart Company for moving forward with 115 affordable senior homes in the Fillmore with a predevelopment loan from HAF. This building will be part of the larger Freedom West 2.0 project, a resident-led effort to revitalize Freedom West and empower the broader Fillmore community.

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?? Thumbs up to the proposal in Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom's #cabudget to create a CA Housing and Homelessness Agency. This will help align housing programs so we can accelerate efforts to build and preserve affordable homes, reduce homelessness, and keep people housed.

Congrats Kati Vastola!

?? We had an incredible time last week at the 40th Anniversary Opportunity Finance Network Conference in Los Angeles! ?? Together with our CDFI peers and partners, we celebrated progress, shared insights on overcoming challenges, and brainstormed strategies that will empower us all to drive meaningful impact in our communities. ?? HAF’s Jan Lindenthal-Cox joined Steven Henry, CFA of UnitedHealth Group, Ryan Mosley of CSH, the Source for Housing Solutions, and Philip Kramer of Housing Matters for the “Bridging Health and Housing” session, exploring partnerships with healthcare companies to expand resources for permanent supportive housing. The panel proudly spotlighted Housing Matters’ Harvey West Studios in Santa Cruz—a 120-unit permanent supportive housing development with an on-site clinic that recently broke ground. The project received a catalytic $15 million investment from UnitedHealth Group alongside financing from the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund and our Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund. HAF’s Tamar Dorfman and Kati Vastola also collaborated with Mark Doherty of the San Francisco Foundation to discuss how community foundations can partner with CDFIs, especially to enhance access to impact capital like Donor-Advised Funds. We highlighted the HAF & SFF Home for Good Fund partnership, which has channeled over $25 million in extremely low-cost, flexible DAF loans to HAF projects and was recently upsized and extended! Thanks to the magic of conference connections, the brave and brilliant Megan Loeb of The Oregon Community Foundation joined as a last-minute speaker, sharing inspiring examples of OCF-CDFI partnerships that support affordable housing and small businesses. A big thank you to everyone who made this event possible—especially to the Opportunity Finance Network staff, our amazing co-panelists, and all who attended. We left feeling more motivated than ever to make a difference! Here’s to fostering opportunity, advancing equity, and the next 40+ years of transformational impact. ???? Reach out to keep the conversations going! #OFN40 #OpportunityFinance #CDFI #ImpactInvestment #CommunityDevelopment #Celebrating40Years