National CAPACD Hiring AAPI Housing Program Manager

National CAPACD is seeking a National AAPI Housing Program Manager (Program Manager) to assist in developing and implementing a comprehensive housing, foreclosure and financial literacy program that builds the capacity of local community-based organizations to serve low-to-moderate income AAPI communities across the country. 

In January 2008, National CAPACD created the National AAPI Foreclosure Response Network, a collective of AAPI community-based organizations that were actively addressing foreclosure-related issues in their local communities.  Engaging in shared learning activities and mutual training and technical assistance opportunities, the group of organizations represents the foundation for National CAPACD’s housing counseling intermediary program that it currently seeks to fully develop and implement.  The Program Manager will be responsible for the initial systems building and infrastructure development to allow the organization to successfully grow into the role of a national HUD housing counseling intermediary.  The Program Manager will continue to manage and provide technical assistance to the Foreclosure Response Network, including the key participation in the Alliance for Stabilizing our Communities (ASC), a collaboration of other national minority-led and minority-serving organizations. 

For more information about the position and how to apply, please download the Job Description here.

2) HUD Expands Multi-Lingual Website to Help LEP Families Gain Access to Programs

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has launched an enhanced website to promote equal access to housing programs by providing important HUD documents in 12 different languages.  HUD’s expanded Limited English Proficient (LEP) website features factsheets, housing brochures, and other forms in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. 

The HUD site offers brochures on fair housing, model lease agreements, information about HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8), and a Resident Rights and Responsibilities brochure in various languages.  These documents are free to the public.

The LEP website is in response to Executive Order 13166, which requires all federal, local and state agencies that receive federal funding to ensure that people with limited language skills have meaningful access to government programs and services.

3)  Hawaiian Homestead Leaders Incorporate Community Development Nonprofit

In June 2009, Hawaiian homestead leaders incorporated the nonprofit Homestead Community Development Corporation (HCDC). 

“Our vision was inspired by the concept of multiple homestead associations incorporating a nonprofit corporation to focus on community projects together, said Robin Puanani Danner, a 10-year homesteader and National CAPACD Board Member. 

The bylaws of HCDC require that homestead associations control the non-profit by dedicating board seats to homestead associations where HCDC is doing or intends to pursue a project.

“We mahalo  Puni Kekauoha and the Papakolea, Kewalo and Kalawahine Homestead Associations for inspiring us to follow a true community based model,” Danner said.  “They formed the Papakolea Community Development Corporation, with the governing board dedicated to their three homestead association leadership.  It’s a great model.”

HCDC will support 3 projects on the island of Kauai.  The first is the development of an Enterprise Center in the Kekaha Homestead, a Commercial Kitchen in the Anahola Homestead, and potentially a Kauai island-wide biofuel project.

The HCDC mission is to develop community projects on Hawaiian home lands that perpetuate the purposes of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.