About

Our Mission

LINC provides housing for people underserved by the marketplace. Our communities are known for excellent design, outstanding management, and life-enhancing services.

Our strategy for California includes

•	Develop and construct new affordable housing for seniors and families
•	Protect California’s affordable housing supply through purchase of existing rentals
•	Develop urban in-fill, mixed-use, and transit-oriented properties
•	Provide supportive services that enhance the lives of our residents
•	Raise the design and environmental quality of all LINC communities
•	Advocate strong public policy for affordable housing

Our History

California’s population reached 32 million at the millennium and is expected to climb to 49 million by the year 2025. Even with the ups and downs of our economy, California continues to be the land of opportunity for immigrants, techies, entertainers, engineers, farmers and their families…and they all need housing.

Visionaries in government realized that with the escalating price of land, certain segments of the population would be left behind with no hope to own or even rent a place to live: retired teachers and service sector personnel, and young working families in both California’s urban and rural economies. In 1984, the Southern California Association of Governments formed a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization they named the Corporate Fund for Housing (CFH), and selected a board of directors comprised of government and business leaders that would see the way toward securing affordable homes for these vital members of our growing economy. In the late 1980s, CFH produced five affordable rental communities totaling 845 new homes for seniors on fixed incomes in Los Angeles County. In 1993, CFH acquired and rehabilitated a working family community in Riverside County comprised of 108 rentals.

Building on the experience and relationships gained in these early developments, CFH formed our new entity, LINC Housing, with an expanded mission, staff, and service area. LINC is an acronym for Limited Income Communities. LINC creates and preserves housing with careful attention paid to quality design and life-enhancing resident services. We have developed a wide variety of affordable homes through new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of at-risk housing, historic preservation, and purchase of manufactured home parks. Each is unique to its neighborhood and the residents who call it home. To date, LINC has had a hand in developing more than 6,000 affordable homes in 45 communities throughout the state of California.

As we enter our third decade in housing development, we are grateful for the support of the many people and businesses that partner with us to make it possible. Our board and staff are energized with new vision for design and finance. We will continue to break new ground in ways to serve our California communities through housing.

View our map with the complete listing of LINC communities.