Housing Accelerator Fund assists community organizations in building and preserving affordable housing. The organization aims to provide financing solutions for affordable housing projects.

Housing Accelerator Fund

San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund | 1,034 followers on LinkedIn. SFHAF innovates smart capital approaches to expand the supply of affordable housing in San Francisco.  | The Housing Accelerator Fund (the HAF) is an innovative nonprofit lender and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).  Established in 2017 by the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, we create public-private partnerships and leverage private, philanthropic, and public capital to stem displacement of low-income and working families and accelerate the production of new affordable housing across the Bay Area.

CEO, San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

Rebecca Center Foster

SVP Underwriting & Credit, San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

Katie Fisher

Meg Spriggs

Chief Financial Officer at San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

Tamar Dorfman

San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

🌟 We had an incredible time last week at the 40th Anniversary Opportunity Finance Network Conference in Los Angeles! 🎉 Together with our CDFI peers and partners, we celebrated progress, shared insights on overcoming challenges, and brainstormed strategies that will empower us all to drive meaningful impact in our communities. 🏠 HAF’s Jan Lindenthal -Cox joined Steven Henry, CFA of UnitedHealth Group , Ryan Mosley of CSH, the Source for Housing Solutions , and Philip Kramer of Housing Matters for the “Bridging Health and Housing” session, exploring partnerships with healthcare companies to expand resources for permanent supportive housing. The panel proudly spotlighted Housing Matters ’ Harvey West Studios in Santa Cruz—a 120-unit permanent supportive housing development with an on-site clinic that recently broke ground. The project received a catalytic $15 million investment from UnitedHealth Group alongside financing from the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund and our Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund. HAF’s Tamar Dorfman and Kati Vastola also collaborated with Mark Doherty of the San Francisco Foundation to discuss how community foundations can partner with CDFIs, especially to enhance access to impact capital like Donor-Advised Funds. We highlighted the HAF & SFF Home for Good Fund partnership, which has channeled over $25 million in extremely low-cost, flexible DAF loans to HAF projects and was recently upsized and extended! Thanks to the magic of conference connections, the brave and brilliant Megan Loeb of The Oregon Community Foundation joined as a last-minute speaker, sharing inspiring examples of OCF-CDFI partnerships that support affordable housing and small businesses. A big thank you to everyone who made this event possible—especially to the Opportunity Finance Network staff, our amazing co-panelists, and all who attended. We left feeling more motivated than ever to make a difference! Here’s to fostering opportunity, advancing equity, and the next 40+ years of transformational impact. 🌎💡 Reach out to keep the conversations going! #OFN40 #OpportunityFinance #CDFI #ImpactInvestment #CommunityDevelopment #Celebrating40Years

Way to go, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco ! This is such a meaningful step to empower CDFIs to make bigger, bolder investments to meet the needs of the communities we serve together. Proud to be FHLB members and to have spent the last few days in fellowship with our community finance peers #OFN40

In case you haven't tracked, we have an incredibly important measure on the statewide ballot in November (27 days away!!) - #YesonProp5 will empower local communities to approve bonds for affordable housing, infrastructure, and emergency services with 55% of local votes. This is more democratic, puts more power in our local communities, and is a critical tool to address our incredible shortage of affordable housing in California. Let's do this!

Alongside hundreds of community-based organizations, HAF enthusiastically supports statewide Prop 5 this November. Even with a massive housing shortage, our communities don’t have the power to approve desperately needed affordable housing projects. Prop 5 would change that. 🙌 Follow @YesOnCAProp5 and learn more at YesOnProp5.org

Congrats to BRIDGE Housing Corporation , San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development , Van Meter Williams Pollack (VMWP) , and partners on the ribbon cutting of Islais Place! Fun fact, this was HAF's FIRST EVER loan back in 2017, supporting BRIDGE's acquisition of an underutilized parcel in the Excelsior. We are so thrilled the project is completed and welcoming families!

921 Howard is an incredible project, bringing 200+ affordable homes to SOMA - congratulations TNDC , Charmaine Curtis , San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development , and partners!

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Beyond the quality of life we hope these homes will offer to the people who live in them, we believe that the Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund will set a scalable precedent for improving the way we finance affordable housing so that we can get more done, faster: "Together we can do this!" -- Rebecca Center Foster !

In partnership with Sobrato Philanthropies , Destination: Home , and Apple we are thrilled to announce the launch of the Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund with $50 million in initial investment. The Fund has already approved its inaugural loan to help build a 145 unit affordable housing development in the Mission District in San Francisco, which will break ground later this month. The initiative represents a unique collaboration among these partners, who share a commitment to championing strategies that will significantly speed up the creation of affordable homes in the greater Bay Area. https://lnkd.in/eYjACjd3

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