Housing Workgroup

7 CEDP partners work collectively to address three areas of housing: DEVELOPMENT, ADVOCACY, and MANAGEMENT in order to increase affordable housing across Fresno. Learn more in our Housing Solutions guide updated in May 2025.

Fresno County’s Housing Challenges

The housing crisis in Fresno is driven by a lack of decent, safe, and affordable housing, chronic barriers to homeownership, and increasing displacement of vulnerable residents. Nowhere is this more evident than in Fresno’s lower-income communities, where the CEDP Housing Workgroup works to expand access to housing solutions.

Current city policies and practices limit affordable small scale and infill development while failing to protect residents from displacement through gentrification.

This crisis is showcased in recent data from the City of Fresno and U.S. Census.

We Are About Solutions

Fresno CEDP neighborhoods have the capacity for the development of over 20,000 NEW low-income affordable, workforce, senior, SRO, ADU, and other types of needed affordable units to meet the needs of our neighbors.

In the next five years, Fresno CEDP organizations aim to build 1,000 units.

We are driven by 3 commitments for action

1. Partnering to ensure the housing that our neighbors envision and need gets built.
2. Creative and innovative means to increase housing availability in our neighborhoods.
1. Operating and sustaining quality inclusive and affordable rental properties in our neighborhoods.
2. Respecting the dignity of all tenants.
1. Promote an affordable variety of housing options in all neighborhoods for all Fresnans.
2. Resident Voice (a low-income families and renters) informs inclusive development.
3. Make it easy for the public and private sectors to be equitable and sustainable.