INITIATIVES

The Orange County Housing Trust will:

• Serve as a non-profit depository for the collection and disbursement of funds from the public and private sectors dedicated to increasing the inventory of affordable and workforce housing in Orange County.
• Help maintain and improve the county’s workforce by expanding the variety of housing options for such workers as teachers, firemen, police officers, librarians, nurses, food and tourist industry employees, and other important members of the county’s labor pool.
• Work with city and county governments to seek innovative solutions to the county’s and Southern California’s workforce housing needs by promoting such concepts as infill/TOD development, housing preservation, and acquisition/reuse of foreclosed properties through such resources as auctions and REO opportunities.
• Provide attractive predevelopment financing to builders and non-profit entities involved in the development of affordable housing; to assist in the acquisition of land and pre-construction activities that will boost the inventory of lower cost housing options.
• Provide leadership for the county’s affordable housing community programs such as Employer Assisted Housing.
• Help as much as possible to reduce traffic congestion on the county’s freeways and surface streets vis-à-vis state mandates (e.g. SB 375) by utilizing its homebuyer program to move homeowners closer to their work, i.e. Proximity Housing.