Accelerating affordable housing in San Francisco.

<p><strong><a href= "https://evepicker.com/accelerating-affordable-housing-in-san-francisco/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p>My guest today is Rebecca Foster, the CEO of the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund. The accelerator fund is a public private partnership that helps to finance affordable housing in San Francisco, in particular, the many buildings currently being occupied affordably that are in danger of being purchased and of their occupants being displaced.</p> <p>Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Rebecca on the show notes page for this episode and be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:00] Hi, Rebecca. Thanks for joining me.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Rebecca Foster:</strong> [00:00:02] Thank you so much for having me, yes.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:04] It's really great. So I wanted to dive right in and find out all about the San Francisco housing accelerator, which you lead, and I saw that the headline on the accelerator site says, "Innovative financial tools to preserve and expand affordable housing." And I wanted to ask you, what are innovative financial tools? What do you employ?</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Rebecca:</strong> [00:00:27] Sure. So, what our goal was in ... creating the accelerator fund and I think a key piece in our origin story is actually we were created and incubated out of the mayor's office in San Francisco. And so we are truly a public-private partnership, and I think, especially in the world of affordable housing, that's a fundamental component of what makes it effective. So, we bring together private, philanthropic and p