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- EIN 23-2218001
- (215) 576-7044
- 1501 Cherry St Philadelphia PA 19102-1403 USA
- www.housingalliancepa.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Mission: The housing alliance has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. The housing alliance is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government officials working from a shared belief that everyone deserves a home within their reach. We work by providing research, coalition-building, leadership and outreach to win policies that either increase the supply or reduce barriers to the production, rehabilitation, preservation or provision of safe, decent homes for low-income people.
Programs: The housing alliance of pa conducts research, provides information and builds coalitions to solve the shortage of homes that are both affordable and available to people with low incomes. The alliance has been instrumental in the adoption of the state's housing trust fund, which, since 2012 has created more than 500 jobs, leveraged nearly one-quarter billion dollars and is helping 4,148 families with pressing housing problems through development, rehab, rental assistance and repair. The alliance is an expert on addressing blighted and abandoned property. It has led the effort to establish a new state policy infrastructure that enables local communities to tackle blight. These new tools include stronger property maintenance code enforcement tools, land banks and conservatorship. While homelessness still plagues many pennsylvanians, the alliance has worked to build expertise among state policy-makers and support local communities in learning about and adopting evidence-based and data-informed practices. Rebuilding homeownership has become increasingly important in the new regulatory and market environment. The alliance has established a home hub information clearinghouse to help homeownership professionals gain access to resources they need to lend a helping hand. As an information resource, the alliance hosts innumerable workshops, conferences, webinars and programs throughout the year that reach about 4,000 people statewide to build the capacity of the industry.
the organization hosts an annual state-wide conference which provides training on topics of interest and relevance to stakeholders. The "homes within reach conference" has become the pre-eminent state housing, homelessness and community development event, which most recently drew over 900 people from 120 cities and towns from across pennsylvania and the surrounding states.