Market Incentives
Congregation Building Community in Northern Colorado helped win more than 1,500 new affordable housing units since 1999 as a result of a new fast track system to speed approval and reduce impact fees for affordable housing in Loveland, Colorado. The program creates market incentives for developers to build affordable housing and has been one of the most successful efforts of its kind in the nation.

Rebuilding Communities
Camden Churches
Organized for People (CCOP) won state passage of the Camden Recovery Act in 2002, providing $175 million in new state investment for housing and community redevelopment in one of the poorest cities in the nation.  CCOP's multi-year organizing campaign has begun to spur significant new private investment in Camden for the first time in decades.

Farm Worker Housing
Inland Congregations
United for Change (ICUC) has worked with farm worker families in Coachella Valley, California since 1999 to address some of the most critical housing conditions in the United States. As a result of new forgivable loan products for both tenants and property owners hundreds of tenant families have been able to buy new manufactured homes and seventeen mobile home parks have been renovated.
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Inclusionary Zoning
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community
Organization (CCISCO) won passage of an Inclusionary Zoning ordinance in Brentwood, California in 2003. The law requires developers to create affordable housing units as part of new developments. As a result there are projected to be 675 low and very low income homes built in the city over the next five years, a benefit of over $200 million. PICO federations in Denver, San Francisco, San Diego and Freemont have created thousands of affordable housing units through similar laws.

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