Welcome to the

Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County

The Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County (HTF) is an innovative non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is working on a countywide basis to help solve our communities’ critical need for workforce and affordable housing. HTF is a funding vehicle that helps bridge the ‘affordability gap’ by partnering with the private, public and non-profit sectors to raise new financial resources to support affordable community housing.

Our Mission

The Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County (HTF) helps maintain the socio-economic fabric of Santa Barbara County by addressing the fundamental building block of healthy communities--housing that is affordable to local workers and residents. HTF works to create innovative partnerships and new sources of private and public revenue permanently dedicated to expanding the supply of affordable housing for very low, low, moderate and middle-income residents of Santa Barbara County. We support projects that enhance the quality of life and sense of community and that preserve the long-term affordability of the housing as a community resource.

New Projects

The first-ever countywide survey of the affordable-housing industry has been completed. It was undertaken by the Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County (HTF) to gauge challenges facing community-housing sponsors in the post-housing-collapse market. We surveyed over 50 such sponsors, from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and released the findings in a report titled Meeting the Challenge of Affordable Housing: A Survey of the Production Capacity and Needs of Our Countywide Housing Sponsors. This report illuminates the major issues housing sponsors face in developing workforce and affordable housing.

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View report summary in The Santa Barbara Independent

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