Community Housing Partnership
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Headquarters Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 1990
Mission: Community Housing Partnership (CHP) creates, implements and demonstrates solutions to homelessness by working in partnership with people in San Francisco who would otherwise be without a home. CHP develops and operates high quality permanent affordable housing, integrating optional support services, job training and community organizing. We strive to break the cycle of homelessness by strengthening community, encouraging self-determination and involving tenants in every aspect of the organization.
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bay area, homelessness, direct services, employment training, leadership development, support services, housing
Summary
Stories
Expert Reviews
Leadership
From the Nonprofit
Leadership
Gail Gilman.
Gail has over 14 years of experience in the supportive housing field and for the past eight years has served as the Director of Tenant Services at Community Housing Partnership. Previous to her work with Community Housing Partnership, Ms. Gilman served as Program Director for the Bridge Project, a Special Project of National Significance (SPNS) grantee. Ms. Gilman has been…
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Financial Data
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Total Revenue:
$9,064,999
From the Nonprofit
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Maureen Futtner
Community Housing Partnership Welcomes New Board Member Steve Bowdry Oct 13, 2010 |
Community Housing Partnership is pleased to announce a significant appointment to its Board of Directors. Steve Bowdry, a leader with more than 20 years experience in commercial real estate, was elected to the Community Housing Partnership Board in September 2010.…
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Oct 06, 2010 |
Community Housing Partnership announced the publication of their 2010 Annual Report. View the report here: http://www.chp-sf.org/annual-report/
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Zeke Weiner
Director of Fund Development Sep 24, 2010 |
As of Sept 23 2010, Community Housing Partnership's commercial has gotten 80,000+ views on YouTube Read More. |
Contact Info
Address:
280 Turk St
San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Story:
This is the founding story of CHP:
In 1988, a study called “Transitional Housing: The Next Step” was drafted by Paul Boden, Joe Wilson, Greg Francis, and Laura Ware of the Coalition on Homelessness. This study emphasized the need for the City of San Francisco to begin prioritizing the creation of affordable, permanent housing rather than continuing to emphasize transitional housing and shelters.
This same study was reviewed by then Mayor Art Agnos, and ultimately adopted by the City as formal policy. But it was the Loma Prieta Earthquake in October of 1989 that gave impetus to the implementation of the ideas outlined in this study. With the destruction caused by the earthquake, many of the hotels used for emergency housing by the Department of Human Services had been rendered unsafe for residency. The City thus had these emergency housing funds as well as FEMA funds to support reconstructing projects; private foundations were also looking at ways to support rebuilding after this destruction. This combination of factors led to a meeting between various city departments, members of the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO - the San Francisco coalition of non-profit housing developers), and members of the Coalition on Homelessness (COH – an advocacy organization composed of homeless people, advocates, service providers, and community members). At this and subsequent meetings it was decided that these two coalitions would work in partnership to create a new organization whose specific purpose and mission was to develop housing dedicated and affordable to homeless people, which was called the Community Housing Partnership. (Source: http://www.chp-sf.org/about_history.html)
Expert Reviews of Community Housing Partnership
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Less than 2% of the people CHP serves return to homelessness. CHP owns, manages and/or provides services at 11 properties with 755 units of housing, serving over 1500 tenants. They are developing 3 new housing sites with a total of 287 apartments.Organization Strengths Summary:
Bay Area Homelessness experts believe that the Community Housing Partnership is the premier housing provider for homeless people in San Francisco. They were created by the community and to this day, hold themselves accountable to the community. They respect the homeless population and involve them in the decision-making process.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
At the same time, the Community Housing Partnership needs to expand the reach of its services to help more families. In order to do this, it should collaborate more with other service providers.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Organization Strengths
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They have a great supported employment model, a strong director, and good tenant empowerment. | ||
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They are respectful of homeless persons and are committed to their growth and support. | ||
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They serve a very challenging population and include clients and former clients in the decision-making process. | ||
High Levels of Accountability: Created by the Community; Work for the Community |
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This organization plays a supportive community role and hires and promotes from the population they house. | ||
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In every way, this agency has been and is in the vanguard of HDC's, and all other models of service for homeless people. From its inception, it has depended on the involvement of the community-and designed the housing and programs it runs around the needs of the community, with the direction of these being taken very specifically from a series of community workgroups that met for over 2 years to form the core belief systems, create programs based in these core beliefs. This was coordinated by the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. | ||
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They live by their values and are accountable to people they serve. | ||
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They serve people with co-occurring disorders who are turned away or creamed out of other programs. | ||
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They were created by the community and still hold themselves accountable to why they were created. | ||
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They remain focused and clear on mission and values. They are creative, are innovative, and take risks. They have a commitment to employing and responding to customers. | ||
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They hold their staff and program participants accountable. | ||
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It is the number one provider of housing to homeless people in San Francisco. | ||
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They are an outstanding providing of housing, social, and employment services to people who have been homeless-- many for long periods of time. | ||
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They are effective at providing housing to the chronic homeless population. | ||
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They have a 98% success rate. | ||
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They provide permanent, affordable housing with few barriers and fair policies. | ||
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They are outstanding because of their housing opportunities, employment for residents, and equitable staff structure. | ||
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They provide supportive housing for the chronically homeless. | ||
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They provide a variety of much-needed housing and support services. | ||
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They are an outstanding provider of supportive housing and a job creator. | ||
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CHP is the only housing provider in San Francisco that focuses exclusively on providing permanent housing for formerly homeless people. Not only does it have a remarkably low eviction rate, but also it provides employment training for residents, does training in community organizing, supports residents in their efforts to reinvigorate the neighborhood, and hires much of its staff *from* its residents. | ||
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They have a very high (98%?) retention rate of residents. They provide housing to the homeless in a holistic way that considers service needs, employment, and community organizing. | ||
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They address the needs of the most vulnerable homeless people, have a professional attitude of staff and expertise, and have reduced homelessness significantly. | ||
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They provide excellent onsite supportive services. | ||
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They are outstanding because they are very diligent about what they do and how they do it. | ||
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They have strong connections for advocacy. | ||
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They are outstanding for their fiscal stability. | ||
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They should strengthen their board and increase their private support. | ||
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They need more money- all the good non-profits need to have enough funding to sustain themselves over the next 10 years. | ||
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It should take more risks. Its guardedness has prevented it from doing several things that residents want it to do. | ||
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They should improve public knowledge of their work. | ||
Serve More People |
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They should scale - get bigger – to serve more people. | ||
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They should expand their services. | ||
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They should serve more families. | ||
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They should develop single family homes not just apartments and SRO's. | ||
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They should add more sites and make their training model available to others. | ||
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They should work on more collaboration with other service providers. | ||
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They have a habit of being adversarial and at times, unreasonable. Despite their community organizing spirit, they don't always play so well with others. | ||
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They should continue to build new bridges with new partners (education field, health care, etc.) | ||
Leadership
Gail Gilman
Executive Director
Executive Director
From the Nonprofit
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Maureen Futtner
Community Housing Partnership Welcomes New Board Member Steve Bowdry Oct 13, 2010 |
Community Housing Partnership is pleased to announce a significant appointment to its Board of Directors. Steve Bowdry, a leader with more than 20 years experience in commercial real estate, was elected to the Community Housing Partnership Board in September 2010. Mr. Bowdry previously served on the organization’s fundraising committee, and is delighted to deepen his commitment to CHP. Read more about him or the press release here: http://www.chp-sf.org/about_board.html
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Oct 06, 2010 |
Community Housing Partnership announced the publication of their 2010 Annual Report. View the report here: http://www.chp-sf.org/annual-report/
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Zeke Weiner
Director of Fund Development Sep 24, 2010 |
As of Sept 23 2010, Community Housing Partnership's commercial has gotten 80,000+ views on YouTube
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Zeke Weiner
Director of Fund Development Sep 24, 2010 |
San Francisco Chronicle- June 12 2010
Marina post-foster housing idea is a worthy cause http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-06-12/bay-area/21908010_1_marina-neighbors-supportive-housing-marijuana-dispensary Listen to KGO news story on this (click on the logo below): 
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