On April 14th the State Department of Housing and Community Development will be convening a regional meeting in Fresno to discuss strategies on developing a permanent funding source for affordable housing.  HCD will hold seven regional meetings throughout the State with key stakeholders in the business, education, environmental, local government, and housing communities during the first six months of the year.  Sponsors include the Fresno Housing Authority, Fresno Housing Alliance and the California Coalition for Rural Housing.

In addition to these major, regional meetings which will be led by the Director, Lynn Jacobs, HCD Deputy Directors will convene smaller focus groups throughout the State to hear from constituents and locations not covered in the meetings above.

Attached you will find an invitation to the California Department of Housing and Community Development's Permanent Source meeting in Fresno, on April 14th.  We look forward to seeing you there.  We also ask that you forward this to your contacts.

To prepare you for the meeting please consider the following questions:

1. What should the Permanent Source fund?
2. How should money be distributed?
3. What sources should we use?

If you would like to more information on these efforts, please visit HCD’s website.  There you will find an overview of the process as well as notes from other regional meetings.  This will be the only meeting in the San Joaquin Valley so please be sure to attend, bring a friend and let your voice be heard!