Housing Industry Foundation

Because of your generous support, we raised over $750,000 for our housing programs at our 2024 Summit last Thursday! With over 700 people in attendance and 64 fantastic sponsors, this was one of our largest Summit’s to date.

Thank you to HD Supply, our Event Sponsor, and all of our wonderful Summit sponsors for supporting our event this year. And thank you to all of our donors and volunteers for your generous support, which will help HIF prevent more families from experiencing homelessness this year and into 2025.

Go to our website for our full sponsor list, and take a peek at photos from the event! https://www.hifinfo.org/2024-summit/

At the HIF Summit, we receive support in many different ways. We'd like to deeply thank those who sponsored other key aspects of this event!

We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to this year's Bronze Sponsors of the HIF Summit! We can't wait to welcome you to this year's Summit.

We have a whopping 41 Gold Sponsors at the Summit this year! We'd like to give a huge HIF thank you to all of our amazing Gold Sponsors at this year's Summit. You are the backbone of this event, and we couldn't host a successful fundraiser year after year without your support.

As our Summit grows, our gratitude for our Platinum Sponsors does as well! This year we have a record 10 Platinum Sponsors, all of whom support HIF and the Summit every year. Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors!

We are so grateful for our Summit Diamond Sponsors! Thank you to , JSM Enterprises, and Woodmont Real Estate Services for your support each and every year.

As our Summit draws nearer, we'd like to send a huge thank you to our Event Sponsor, HD Supply! A wonderful annual partner, HD Supply has supported the Summit over numerous years, as well as having a presence on our Board of Directors, and we couldn't host this successful event each year without their support. Thank you HD Supply!

We're just two weeks away from our 35th anniversary Summit! On this , let's take a look back at some past HIF Summits.

We are 1 week away from the day of service at the Boccardo Reception Center! Operated by the nonprofit HomeFirst, the BRC is a critical shelter serving over 200 individuals experiencing homelessness. HIF’s corporate champion Greystar, will bring 30 dedicated volunteers that will lend their time and skills to paint the shelter’s sleeping area and cafeteria.

Greystar is a real estate company, offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. They have been a key supporter of HIF and have served on HIF’s Board of Directors for almost 15 years.

Thank you again to our Corporate Champion, and our vendors , , , , and Commercial Fire Protection! Stay tuned for more updates!

“I am so grateful that AHI has entered my life as a financial support I can depend on. With the help of the AHI Program, I feel that I can finally take a deep breath and settle down. I am saving for the first time in years, paying off debt, and I finally have a home to call my own!”

Learn more about Jo and her journey with AHI here: https://www.hifinfo.org/jos-story/

“We are very grateful to HIF for helping us with our rent payment in our time of need.”

Read more about our EHF Client, Mayra & Gustavo’s, story here: https://www.hifinfo.org/mayra-gustavos-story/

HIF welcomes our newest Board Members: Gina Spada, Regional National Accounts, Sherwin-Williams, and Jerrid Vannelli, Senior Vice President/Multifamily Operations, Woodmont Real Estate Services.

HIF and BluSky Restoration Contractors are back at Covenant House California! Last year, with the support of HIF Board companies BluSky Restoration Contractors, Equity Residential and Benchmark Environmental, we renovated five units. This year, our Renovation Program is working on three more units to house homeless youth.

Join us in celebrating our incredibly deserving Summit honorees this year! Come hear their heartwarming stories at this year’s Summit on September 5.

Sponsorships are closed for this year’s Summit, but tickets can still be purchased on our website. Register today! https://www.hifinfo.org/2024-summit/

Join us in celebrating this wonderful milestone for Ron Granville, a true leader in our industry and HIF!

Congratulations Ron!

Ron Granville | People on The Move - Silicon Valley Business Journal Ron Granville Professionally Recognized at Woodmont Real Estate Services

We are excited to announce that we are one month away from the Day of Service with Greystar at HomeFirst! This project began in 2023 when HIF champions added privacy screens to 200+ client beds and installed walls to create a visual barrier between the shelter’s bathrooms and sleeping area.

Phase two begins on 8/22 at the Boccardo Reception Center, and we can’t wait to get started! This phase will involve painting the sleeping area and cafeteria, a full renovation of the main lobby, intake offices, and welcome desks. The project will include new flooring, furniture, lighting, and a new bathroom for clients! Varsity Painting is donating paint and supplies and will be prepping the shelter for the volunteers.

Stay tuned for more updates! Thank you again to our Corporate Champion, and our vendors , , , and Commercial Fire Protection! Please enjoy the before and proposed after photos!

In the 1st half of 2024, we placed 7 new families and received $360,076 in in-kind rental donations from our partners. With these savings, AHI participants are able to pay down debt, increase their emergency savings, contribute more to retirement accounts, and spend more time on hobbies and extracurricular activities. Thank you to our AHI partners for making this happen!

Read more about our Q2 impact.
https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-july-2024

HIF Champions and Vendors are making a big impact in the community!

https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-july-2024

In the first half of 2024, our EHF program distributed 264 grants totalling over $395,000, helping keep over 486 people securely housed in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Read more about our Q2 impact:
https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-july-2024

On Saturday, 6/22, we welcomed both cycling and walking participants to our third Ride Home event at Hellyer Park in San Jose. It was a fun day of movement, live music, food, and fundraising!

Thank you to everyone who came out in support of HIF to help make this event a success! Special thanks to our Event Sponsor, Windy Hill Property Ventures.

View all of our event photos on our website! https://www.hifinfo.org/ridehome-2024/

Good fun with Richard Schaper and Albert King with Advanced Facility Solutions, and David Jones with Greystar at Advanced’s client appreciation event at Oracle Park.

Thanks to Richard, Albert and Leah for great evening at the ballpark!

Let's continue to explore the impact of our Emergency Housing Fund program through the story of Sandra.

Sandra and her son arrived in the Bay Area five years ago. During those 5 years, she diligently supported herself and her son. However, when her second child arrived prematurely at 35 weeks, their medical journey added unexpected strain.

With her work hours reduced and income dwindling, Sandra found herself teetering on the edge financially. Though she stretched her resources, relying on savings and the generosity of her son’s school for groceries, the weight of rent loomed large.

In her moment of need, Sandra turned to St. Vincent de Paul, a trusted partner agency of HIF. Through collaboration, HIF extended a lifeline, ensuring Sandra and her children remained securely housed with a timely grant for rental assistance.

"I have so much gratitude for your organization. I am a single mom. I had a difficult pregnancy and could not work enough to cover the rent and other bills. Thanks to HIF, I am back and ready to get my life in order. With your help I have been able to keep my apartment and have peace of mind knowing that I have a home for me and my kids. Many thanks. GOD BLESS YOU.”

- Sandra

For over ten years, Fashion Furniture Rental has supported HIF through our events and Renovation Program. They have helped us to provide much needed stylish and functional pieces for domestic violence shelters, transitional homes and agencies throughout the Bay Area.

Fashion Furniture has always focused on ‘serving customers differently than other furniture rental companies: providing personalized service and creating a feeling of home for customers no matter how long their stay, no matter where they stayed.’

It is from this lens that the team at Fashion Furniture have imbued our projects and the agencies we serve with not only quality furniture, but also functionality while injecting the spaces we transform with warmth and making them not just a place to recover and move on, but a home.

With over $77,000 donated to HIF (at least $25,000 of it from in-kind donations), the team at Fashion Furniture have been critically important to the success of our Program, particularly in 2023-24.

As important as their support has been to HIF, it is the spirit of collaboration and genuine desire to help that is at the core of what makes HIF and our Renovation Program successful!

"At Fashion Furniture, community is at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we proudly support HIF and their mission to give back. We know that when we work together to uplift and empower our community, that is when we make a meaningful difference in the lives of those around us.”
Cat Lake, Corporate Accounts Manager

As important as their support has been to HIF, it is the spirit of collaboration and genuine desire to help that is at the core of what makes HIF and our Renovation Program go!

Learn more about Fashion Furniture through the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-may-2024-b

For over 20 years ProFloors has been a vital part of our Renovation Program, providing over $100,000 of in-kind donated services and materials. They have also supported our events and are currently a key part of our Trades Cohort for our Major Gifts Campaign, making a three year pledge to help achieve our fundraising goals. Their commitment to our mission and serving our communities through the highest quality service and outcomes for shelters and agencies has helped to make our Renovation Program unique within the nonprofit sector in the Bay Area.

We have been a part of, and have supported, HIF for over 20 years because they truly make a difference in the lives of the families and people they serve. We are proud to support HIF and the Renovation Program. I’ve seen so many families get the chance to turn their lives around through the programs and staff at HIF. ”
Rick Curbelo, CEO & President, ProFloors

The ProFloors team has also exuded the kind of can-do, ‘how can we help’ spirit that reflects their company culture and the spirit of the HIF family. They put the same level of professionalism and quality into our Renovation Program projects as they would any job, and the results speak for themselves.

The shelters that we renovate frequently have high-impact usage and the floors are often the last aspect of a shelter or transitional home that can be renovated correctly and made to last. When the ProFloors team finishes an HIF project, the results are transformative for the nonprofit and the clients they serve.

Since we discussed the EHF program in our last post, let's discuss the Q1 performance of our Affordable Housing Initiative.
Affordable Housing Initiative (AHI) clients are teachers and school staff, healthcare workers, and nonprofit professionals who we match with apartments at up to 50% below market rates for up to three years and located within a 30-minute commute to their jobs.

In the first quarter of 2024:
We had 49 active households, serving 62 adults and 30 children. We received $163,590 in rental donations from our partners. On average, each AHI participant had $1,112 in rental savings.

48% of participants are in education services, 40% in nonprofit/social services, 6% in county services, 4% healthcare, and 2% in other.

Since 2019:
AHI has served 111 households and received $2,332,962 in in-kind rental donations from our partners.

Thank you to our AHI partners! ABL Properties, Arcadia Management Services, AvalonBay Communities, Cambridge Management Company, Casco Property Management, Essex Apartment Homes, Interstate Equities Corporation, Prometheus Real Estate Group , Raintree Partners, Rutherford Investments, Saratoga Capital, Sequoia Equities, Strom Properties, and Windy Hill Property Ventures.

To find out more information about the AHI program, check out our newsletter here:
https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-april-2024

showed up and showed off with some amazing work at ! The volunteers from got a good workout helping the Matt and the great team at BellaVista digging irrigation lines, setting up planter boxes and preparing the grounds for new, beautiful sod.. The before and after's really show the time and care that went into ensuring a nice space outdoors for the residents.

HIF is grateful to have supporters like BellaVista that donate their time and resources into these great projects. Thank you again, and their vendors including , , , and Pine Cone Lumber!(https://www.facebook.com/PineConeLumber/).

More amazing before and after's to come as this project continues!

Now that we're into our second Quarter, let's talk about the results of the Emergency Housing Program in our first!

Our housing grants of up to $2,500 help people pay rent, security deposits, and utility bills. Many Emergency Housing Fund (EHF) clients encountered an unexpected setback, have exhausted all other aid options, and are on the brink of becoming unhoused.

In Q1 of 2024, these grants helped 255 people in 146 households, of which 31% were children. The average grant was $1,392. In total this past quarter, we distributed $203,350 to help people in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties avert a crisis.

To find out more information about this program, visit our newsletter below:
https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-april-2024

After several months of renovation work, HIF and Prometheus Real Estate Group came together on 4/18/24 for a vibrant Day of Service to celebrate our largest renovation project in support of Rebekah Children's Services .

Rebekah Children’s Services (RCS) offers a full continuum of family-centered services including prevention, mental health, foster care and adoption, job training, a monthly food bank program, educational services, and now, transitional housing, to promote the healthy development of children and families.

Led by our Corporate Champion, Prometheus Real Estate Group and supported by our great vendors including Advanced Restoration, ProFloors, Fashion Furniture, GD Painting, Medallion Landscape, APD, and so many generous supporters (visit our Renovations webpage for a complete list of vendors), HIF renovated five housing units that will support at-risk families as they rebuild their lives and move toward independence. This project leveraged over $280,000 of in-kind support for a full market value of over $350,000!

Thanks to the leadership of Prometheus’s Luis Monteon and Tony Deshaw we also received over $25,000 in cash donations from vendors throughout the Bay Area to help complete this project:

Fully renovated units including kitchen countertops, cabinets, appliances, over 5,000 square feet of new flooring, new light fixtures and security cameras, new hardware and safety equipment, and televisions for each unit

New living room and bedroom furniture

Replaced and stained over 1,000 linear feet of fencing

Painting on all five units, inside and out as well as administrative buildings

Beautiful new landscaping for each unit including new plants, trees, irrigation and mulch

Thank you again to our HIF Family for helping us to realize this amazing project!

For a full list of vendors and photos, click the link below:
https://www.hifinfo.org/rebekah-childrens-services/

Huge thank you to everyone who helped make yesterday a big success! Our Corporate Champion Essex Property Trust , came ready to work with a great team and a great sprit and made our Day of Service truly something special (Essex also donated beautiful furniture, new sheds, new fans and other materials for this project). We braved the heat and painted and stained tables, assembled sheds, dug irrigation lines for newly built planter boxes and more at TURN Behavioral Health.

Thank you to our amazing vendors who donated their time and resources to make this happen, including , IBI, Inc., HD Supply, In-Line Electric and .usa

Stay tuned for more posts and videos celebrating this incredible project and our supporters.

Pacific Home Decor (PHD) has helped to strengthen HIF’s Renovation Program through their generous support of our projects, providing high quality and custom made cabinets for years, including helping to transform a Unity Care home for foster care youth, Maitri Domestic Violence Shelter, and low-income housing for St. Francis Center. This year, they have donated beautiful cabinets for our CORA project, being led by HIF Board Member Saarman Construction .

PHD’s commitment to quality and the great spirit of support speaks to what makes HIF’s Renovation Program so unique and special. They have provided over $40,000 of support to HIF since 2018, including over $30,000 of donated materials and labor.

"At PHD, we firmly believe in the mission and impact of HIF. Their dedication to the community aligns closely with our values, and we're honored to play a part in their endeavors. Seeing the tangible difference they make in the community reaffirms our commitment to supporting their work.”

Kenny Zheng - General Manager, Pacific Home Décor
Pacific Home Décor has been a cornerstone of the construction material industry since 2003, initially serving the discerning needs of local home experts and homeowners. Evolving into a sprawling enterprise, PHD now boasts a 60,000 square foot Storefront Showroom alongside three expansive warehouses totaling 350,000 square feet locally in the Bay Area. PHD’s clientele includes ‘Home Experts’ including apartment property management companies, builders, contractors, designers and more as well as ‘Homeowners’.

Read more about PHD here:

https://mailchi.mp/hifinfo.org/whats-new-march-2024