For the past 20 years, the California Statewide Communities Development Authority (California Communities) has helped local government build community infrastructure, provide affordable housing, create jobs, and help provide access to quality health care and education.

Today, 474 cities, counties and special districts have been program participants to California Communities, which serves as their conduit issuer and provides access to an efficient mechanism to finance locally approved projects.

Since its inception, California Communities has funded more than $9 billion for nearly 1,300 local agency participants. The program has also issued more than $25.6 billion for private-activity based projects that benefit the local community. This includes:

• 46,174 very-low and low-income affordable housing units for 416 multi-family and 96 senior housing projects.
  
  
• 443 nonprofit hospital and medical facilities.
  
  
• 97 skill nursing, assisted living and continuing care facilities.
  
  
• 128 independent K-12 and higher education facilities.
  
  
• 16 solid waste disposal and alternative energy facilities
  
• 165 manufacturing facilities, creating an estimated 10,000 new jobs in California.
  
  
• 153 various public benefit facilities, including research institutes, care center for developmentally disabled and terminally ill persons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinics, student housing projects, job training and placement facilities, and community and youth centers.
  
  

For a copy of California Communities’ Community Benefit Report, click here.

For more information on California Communities programs utilized by your community, please visit the Program Participants Page.

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