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To:	Contra Costa County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners
From:	Joseph Villarreal, Housing Authority
Date:	May 18, 2021

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

EDEN HOUSING’S CIVIC LEADER AWARD

Action of Board On: 05/18/2021

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, Commissioner
Candace Andersen, Commissioner
Diane Burgis, Commissioner
Karen Mitchoff, Commissioner
Federal D. Glover, Commissioner

Contact:

9259578028

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: May 18, 2021
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BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATIONS

ACCEPT a report on HACCC’s Executive Director’s receipt of Eden Housing’s Ilene Weinreb Civic Leader Award.

BACKGROUND

The Housing Authority of the County of Contra Costa’s (HACCC) Executive Director was one of three recipients who received Eden Housing’s first Ilene Weinreb Civic Leader Award. The Award is named after Ilene Weinreb, a former Mayor of Hayward, who was an early champion of Eden Housing. Eden Housing is an organization that grew out of a small group of community activists in Hayward that tried to pass a statewide fair housing initiative in 1968. She is known for saying that, “affordable housing isn’t something that happens automatically, you have to make it happen.”

BACKGROUND (CONT'D)

The award was bestowed upon HACCC’s Executive Director primarily due to the partnership that HACCC and Eden Housing forged. To date, HACCC has funded six of Eden Housing’s projects in Contra Costa County, which is half of their Contra Costa portfolio. The projects are Brentwood Senior Commons in Brentwood, Samara Terrace in Hercules, Belle Terre Apartments in Lafayette, Monteverde Apartments in Orinda, Hana Gardens in El Cerrito and Miraflores in Richmond.

The other two Ilene Weinreb Civic Leader Award recipients were Kurt Wiest of the Alameda County Housing Authority and Lewis Jordan of the Marin Housing Authority.

FISCAL IMPACT

None.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION

None. Informational item only.