Council of Community Housing Organizations

The Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO) has been leading the affordable housing movement in San Francisco since 1978.  We fight for funding and policies that shape urban development and empower low-income and working-class communities.

As a nonprofit coalition of 19 community- and faith-based housing developers and advocates, CCHO (known as “Choo Choo”) crafts actionable public policy and supports resident leadership to create long-term change. We are dedicated to the vision of a San Francisco Bay Area where all residents can afford to live, work, and thrive.

Our collective longstanding mission is to foster the development of permanently affordable low-income housing in San Francisco, under community control and through non-speculative means of ownership, with adequate provisions for tenant services and empowerment.