Right to left: Tony Sertich, California Housing Finance Agency Executive Director; Jonathan Klein, Housing Development and Finance Committee Executive Director; and Tyrone Roderick Williams, Fresno Housing CEO, speak at the State of Affordable Housing event Sept. 18. Photo by Dylan Gonzales<\/p>\n
Local and state housing leaders highlighted recent affordable housing developments and regional collaboration on Sept. 18 as Fresno Housing celebrated 85 years of serving the community at its State of Affordable Housing event.<\/p>\n
Tyrone Roderick Williams, CEO of Fresno Housing, said the agency has grown from managing public housing and rental assistance into an affordable housing developer and neighborhood investor.<\/p>\n
In total, Fresno Housing owns more than 5,000 units across Fresno County and serves more than 11,000 households through its Housing Choice Voucher program. The agency says it has more than 85 properties and continues to pursue projects across the region.<\/p>\n
Williams said that Fresno Housing has grown from $101 million in assets in 2007 to $1 billion today.<\/p>\n
Williams said rising construction costs, funding gaps and increasingly complex financing continue to be challenges for affordable housing developers, particularly as California changes how housing funding is coordinated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need more housing, but the need far outpaces the resources,\u201d Williams said. \u201cFresno Housing experiences that reality firsthand every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer highlighted Fresno\u2019s efforts to increase affordable housing production, including the creation of a housing division and a local housing trust fund. The city created its Local Housing Trust Fund in 2021 to support affordable housing and related programs.<\/p>\n
Dyer said Fresno has seen a major increase in affordable housing production since 2021, with more projects expected to come online over the next two years.<\/p>\n
The city is also continuing to put public funding toward affordable housing. Its current housing programs include funding for development, homebuyer assistance, housing rehabilitation and eviction protection.<\/p>\n
Clovis Mayor Vong Mouanoutoua said affordability is no longer an issue affecting only the lowest-income residents, pointing to teachers and nurses among those facing difficulty purchasing homes.<\/p>\n
Clovis has adopted a mixed-income zoning ordinance and is working with Fresno Housing on a planned 50-unit affordable housing project near the city\u2019s senior center, Mouanoutoua said.<\/p>\n
Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez said the county, cities, Fresno Housing and nonprofit organizations increasingly are working together rather than pursuing housing projects independently.<\/p>\n
He pointed to the Davu Village project, a 63-unit affordable housing development created through the rehabilitation of the former Parkside Inn Motel in Fresno. The Fresno City Council approved nearly $3.9 million in HOME and HOME-ARP funding for the project in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right to left: Tony Sertich, California Housing Finance Agency Executive Director; Jonathan Klein, Housing Development and Finance Committee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[380,10009,151865,112,622,114,32994,113,12055,1337,10332,32215,187754,163244],"class_list":["post-478427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-affordable-housing","tag-clovis","tag-davu-village","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-housing","tag-fresno-news","tag-housing-affordability","tag-housing-development","tag-jerry-dyer","tag-luis-chavez","tag-tyrone-roderick-williams","tag-vong-mouanoutoua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}