At the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA), our vision is a community where all neighborhoods are excellent places to live, work and do business and all people have access to decent, safe, affordable housing.
Created as a Joint Powers Agency in 1981 by the Sacramento City Council and Sacramento Board of Supervisors, SHRA brings together financial resources and staff expertise to revitalize lower income communities, create affordable housing opportunities and serve our public housing residents.
The members of the Joint Powers Agency are the City of Sacramento, the County of Sacramento, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sacramento, the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Sacramento, the Housing Authority of the City of Sacramento, and the Housing Authority of the County of Sacramento.
Community Revitalization
SHRA currently works in 15 redevelopment areas, collaborating with the community to plan and invest in a variety of neighborhood projects: streetscape, lighting, and other public infrastructure improvements, parks and community centers, mixed use and transit oriented developments and commercial facades. By strategically investing our tax increment funds, we stimulate additional private investment in jobs and housing in our lower income neighborhoods.
Affordable Housing
SHRA uses a variety of financing tools to expand housing opportunities: rehabilitating and preserving older properties, constructing new rental and ownership housing, and boosting homeownership through mortgage assistance. We work proactively as well, creating permanent supportive housing with social service partners for the hardest to house and finding solutions for problem properties and neighborhoods. To ensure neighborhood sustainability, we monitor all of our housing investments over the long term.
Housing Authority
As one of the largest property owners in Sacramento, SHRA provides safe and decent housing for 51,000 residents. We house and provide services to extremely low income families in our 3,400 public housing units. We also administer rental assistance in private housing through more than 11,000 vouchers funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In addition to our core activities, SHRA administers a number of programs on behalf of the City and County, including the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs, low Income Housing Trust Funds, City Mixed Income and County Affordable Housing programs, various first-time homebuyer programs, and enterprise zones established by the State of California.
For more than 25 years, SHRA has helped to improve Sacramento’s neighborhoods in both big and small ways.