To: Contra Costa County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners
From: Joseph Villarreal, Executive Director
Report Title: Presentation concerning the Repositioning of all the Housing Authority's (HACCC) Public Housing Units
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
ACCEPT presentation concerning the transition of all HACCC's public housing units to other financial structures that will provide long-term, subsidized, affordable rents to families while dramatically improving the long-term economic viability of the properties for HACCC.
BACKGROUND:
Across the country, public housing has faced decades of federal budget cuts, leaving local housing authorities without adequate capital for repairs, major renovations, or basic maintenance. For example, HUD's 2026 budget to address capital needs is $3.2 billion, however, the capital needs for public housing were estimated at $169.1 billion in 2025. Similarly, HACCC has $9.3 million in immediate capital needs, and our 3- to 5-year needs are $36.5 million, while only receiving $3.8 million for capital needs in 2026 with $2.1 million of that set aside for repairs.
Given this reality, HACCC's public housing program is only marginally viable currently and thus HACCC is actively moving to transition all units from its public housing program into other forms of long-term assisted, affordable housing. This process is known as repositioning and started with Las Deltas in North Richmond in 2013 with HUD approval given in 2019 to transition that property out of the public housing program. To begin the current phase of this process, HACCC commissioned a team of affordable housing finance and land use experts to assess the existing condition of the portfolio, analyze operating budgets, estimate rents and capital needs to model a variety of financial and land use feasibility scenarios. Based on this data, HACCC's consultants developed a Public Housing Repositioning Plan that e...
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