Developed with extensive local engagement, SHIF is a community-designed and driven source of funding designed to address housing needs within the City of Stockton, supporting activities that work toward alleviating housing insecurity for Stockton residents.
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Stockton Housing Innovation Fund
Stockton Housing Innovation Fund Overview
SHIF was created as a community-designed and community-led source of flexible financing. It is intended to be responsive to local housing needs and invest directly into the Stockton Community with the overall goal of reducing housing insecurity. The Stockton Housing Innovation Fund achieves this goal by supporting local, impactful, and innovative solutions to improve housing access and outcomes. A Community Design Team developed the focus areas for this funding in 2022, which defines what can be funded through this initiative:
- Improving local capacity around affordable housing
- Innovative solutions to address housing insecurity
- Addressing racial disparities in current housing systems
This fund is governed by a Community Oversight Board of local residents with lived and professional experience around housing insecurity and affordable housing initiatives in Stockton. They review, score, and recommend applications for funding annually. SJCF awarded four grants in 2023 and five in 2024 for a total of $550,000 directed to community-led housing solutions. This grantmaking program will be not be open in 2025 as we continue raising funds to regrant to the community.
For questions regarding this grant, please contact Amy Portello Nelson at anelson@sanjoaquincf.org
Grantees
2024
San Joaquin Council of Governments – $75,000
Fund will be used to hire a fund manager for the San Joaquin Regional Housing Fund (SJRHF) to support a range of housing projects in the San Joaquin County region, including Stockton. 220 units based on project pipeline.
Community Medical Centers – $75,000
Funds will be used for housing assistance and wraparound services for those who don’t typically qualify for housing assistance.
Red Rabbit Enterprises – $75,000
Funds will support the transitional housing support and empowerment program and would cover wages, workshops and training for the participants, fuel expenses for transportation of the participants, operational expenses, household start up and organizational expenses, volunteer stipends and housing rescue funds.
New Birth Community Development – $75,000
Funds will be used to support 20 participants going through additional programming that includes household management, conversations w/realtors
and leaders, and more. Stipends to assist with rent, down payment, or household management. Funds will also be used to support seminars, referrals for outside services and group training sessions for 140 individuals. Funds will also be used to support staff and provide resources and equipment.
San Joaquin Fair Housing – $50,000
Funds will be used to support a housing counselor for one year to support over 1,000 residents in Stockton, preventing displacements, evictions, and homelessness through individual counseling, outreach, education, mediation, and virtual workshops.
2023
Turning Point Community Programs – $50,000
Funds will be used as down payment assistance to purchase a home to provide safe, affordable housing for up to 6 individuals living with mental illness and experiencing homelessness and supporting those individuals with behavioral health, case management, and rehabilitation services.
Delta Community Developers Corporation – $50,000
Funds will be used to assist ready to purchase low- and moderate-income families with downpayment assistance of up to $10,000 after they have gone through the Family Self Sufficiency program and put at least a significant amount in an escrow savings fund.
San Joaquin Fair Housing Foundation – $50,000
Funds will be used to support a housing counselor for one year to support over 1,000 residents in Stockton, preventing displacements, evictions, and homelessness through individual counseling, outreach, education, mediation, and virtual workshops.
St. Mary’s Dining Room – $50,000
Funds will be used for the “Moving” project, which will allow staff to build trust by providing assistance at specific homeless encampments for 6 months to unsheltered individuals to identify housing options, address barriers to housing, and create plans for moving into housing.
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