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Dear Friends -When the governor decided to abolish redevelopment agencies from the state budget last year, HCEB was concerned that this would be the death of affordable housing development for people with special needs. And while local governments are struggling with how to continue their redevelopment efforts, and HCEB has had to make some reductions to our staffing, we’re pleased to say that HCEB will be bringing new special needs housing to the market in 2013.The development of Jack Capon Villa is underway. This project, in partnership with Satellite Housing (soon to be Satellite Affordable Housing Associates), will bring 18 units of affordable, accessible housing for people with developmental disabilities to the City of Alameda. We are thrilled to have this project get off the ground, as Alameda has an extremely limited stock of affordable housing.

As we head into 2013, we also see the final home in our Ashland Neighborhood Stabilization Program being completed with Dogwood House in Livermore. We are pleased to say that Ashland NSP will provide permanent housing for 14 formally homeless individuals with serious mental illness, while turning properties that were vacant eyesores in the community into beautiful homes with good neighbors.

We are thrilled that the San Francisco Foundation and the Silicon Valley Bank Foundation have shown their faith in HCEB’s ability to create innovative, award winning housing for people with developmental disabilities and other special needs through the grants we received last year. As funds become more scarce, we are going to need the help of all of our funding community, including individual donors to continue to do the work we do.

HCEB has a portfolio of 23 properties housing 86 people with developmental disabilities or other special needs, and 3 more properties housing 26 people coming in the next year. We’re preventing homelessness, beautifying neighborhoods, and creating more inclusive communities. And we simply can’t do it without your support. HCEB has been green lighted for two additional projects- one each in Walnut Creek and Berkeley- that we are waiting on development funding for. We need to keep our doors open so we can see these projects and more come to fruition in 2013. Won’t you please support us and make a tax-deductible contribution? We need you now more than ever.

Here’s to a great 2013!