March 16th, 2026

Affordable Homes at Risk: Preservation Challenges and Opportunities

Monday, April 13th @ 11 am PST

Each year, thousands of California’s low-income renters are displaced from their previously affordable homes due to expiring regulatory agreements. or conversions of properties into unaffordable market-rate rentals.

This webinar will feature presentations of two brand new reports from the California Housing Partnership and three panel discussions with other experts in the field covering the California Housing Partnership’s latest analysis of data on at-risk affordable homes, case studies describing how mission-driven organizations have successfully preserved affordable homes, and the policy solutions under consideration right now in Sacramento.

Host & Moderators:

Matt Schwartz, President and CEO, California Housing Partnership

Heather Bromfield, Associate Director, Preservation–Northern California, Enterprise Community Partners

Lauren Maddock, Senior Director, Financial Consulting–Portfolio Recapitalization, California Housing Partnership

Natalie Spievak, Senior Policy Manager, Housing California

Speakers:

Danielle Mazzella, Associate Research Director, California Housing Partnership

Matt Alvarez-Nissen, Research Manager, California Housing Partnership

Betsy McGovern-Garcia, Vice President, Self-Help Enterprises

Tiyesha Watts, Associate Director of Policy Advocacy, California Housing Partnership

Justine Marcus, Director of Policy–Northern California, Enterprise Community Partners

The California Housing Partnership creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

CalHousingPartnership.org