CCRH Rural Housing Summit

Can you tell me in detail about the workshops conducted under Rural Housing Summit by CCRH or California Coalition for Rural Housing between October 21 and October 23, 2015?

[Kiran Chandar]

The Rural Housing Summit is CCRH's annual event that retreat on policy and program issues affecting rural housing and community development.

Workshop Descriptions:

Rural Reinvestment:
Banks, CDFIs, and Local Housing Trust Funds – Increasing rural lending by private financial institutions, Community Development Financial Institutions, and locally-funded trust funds

Farm Worker Housing: Resources, Prototypes, and the Drought – Exploring the drought impacts on farm workers, changes in farm labor demand, immigration policy, and innovative housing solutions.

Local Housing Trust Funds: Making them Work in Rural Communities – Revisiting how local housing trust funds can be capitalized and operated in rural counties.

The State Housing Plan 2015-2025: Ensuring a Robust Rural Housing Component – Informing and impacting the State’s plans for rural housing and community development in the next 10 years. Housing Elements and Land Use Reforms – Maximizing use planning and land use tools for supporting affordable housing production and preservation in rural communities.

Services-Enriched Housing: Funding Resident Services in Rural Projects – Delivering, sustaining, and growing placebased social services in rural rental housing.

Tenant Displacement: Preserving At-Risk Housing – Finding solutions to preserve rural rental housing that is facing loss of rent subsidies via mortgage maturation and/or exhaustion of rental annuities.

Tax Credit Development: Maximizing New Funding and Authority – Maximizing use of the tribal housing set-aside, understanding new changes in the QAP, and utilizing new resources.

Home Ownership: Strategic Issues for Self-Help and Home Purchase – Fighting to preserve federal, state, and local funding for affordable and responsible home purchase and meeting challenges to self-help owner construction. Mixed-Income Communities: Inclusionary Housing and Fair Housing – Building on the recent California Supreme Court decisions validating Inclusionary Housing and HUD’s new rules for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.

The Drought and Water Allocation: Is this the Next Rural Housing Challenge? – Using drought relief funds, droughtresilience, and sharing how the drought is affecting water availability, building approvals, and project planning.

Health Reform and Housing: Using the ACA to Fund Housing Services – Knowing how the Affordable Care Act, Medical and Medicare, and health services offer the potential for new funding and health care linkages.

Housing, Energy, Water: Building Resource-Efficient Rural Housing – Harnessing the latest building and equipment innovations in energy and water consumption to achieve greater efficiencies. Manufactured Housing: Acquiring, Rehabilitating, and Preserving Mobile Home Parks – Overcoming institutional and popular resistance to manufactured housing and converting existing parks to nonprofit and resident ownership.

Proposition 13 Reform: Is 2016 the Year for Split Role Adoption? – Discussing the prospects and implications for finally reforming Prop 13 and assessing commercial property at real market value.

Homelessness in Rural Communities: How to Finance Permanent Supportive Housing – Using the MHP and VET Programs to house homeless or near homeless individuals requiring supportive services. Asset-Building: Using Housing as the Platform for Wealth Creation – Looking at ways nonprofits are using mutual self-help and rental housing to generate savings and build assets and wealth for low-income families.

CCRH Rural Housing Summit