Our Mission
Cultivate innovative solutions to resolve the growing housing crisis in America and provide safe, affordable rental housing for essential workers and their families.
Our Approach
Grants
We provide grants to eligible essential workers and their families to bridge the gap between the high cost of housing and household income.
Housing
We are creating affordable, rent-restricted housing communities geared toward middle-income households.
Essential housing fund in practice
$50,000
$50,000
$50,000
In Marin County, for example, the average starting teacher salary is $50,000 per year or $4,167 per month...
67%
$50,000
$50,000
…and the average rent is $2,800 per month, or $33,600 per year, resulting in a 67% housing burden
$1,285
$50,000
$1,285
The Essential Housing Fund helped fill the gap for a set of Marin County teachers by covering up to $1,285 per month, lowering housing costs by approximately 31%
Being a part of the Essential Housing Fund has been a great benefit. I now live eight minutes from work. I feel connected to my teammates because as a single teacher, I am finally able to live where my coworkers live. I feel very safe where I live and am able to walk around my neighborhood.
Rene Maher, Marin County Teacher
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