Peoples' Self-Help Housing

The Mission of Peoples' Self-Help Housing is to provide affordable housing and programs leading to self-sufficiency for low-income families, seniors, and other special needs groups on California's Central Coast.

Greetings! We hope you will enjoy this July issue of our E-newsletter. Have a great summer! Thank you for your ongoing support!

Peoples' Self-Help Housing E-Newsletter

PSHH Meets the Challenge in Carpinteria
Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Fair
Montecito Churches Fill 900 Backpacks
Planned Giving Corner
Upcoming Events:  Taste of Hope (July 26th)
Lachen Tara Grand Opening (October 2008) / Stuff the Bus Parade (December 17th, 2008)
Ralph's Community Rewards Program - Supporting PSHH

PSHH Meets the Challenge in Carpinteria

PSHH is meeting the challenge of affordable rental housing in Carpinteria, a small community nine miles south of Santa Barbara, where the economy is based on tourism and agriculture, specifically avocados, greenhouse flowers, and bedding plants.

In 2004 at the request of city leaders, PSHH took over a deteriorating and crime-ridden camper park on Via Real next to the freeway. PSHH made many improvements including gating and fencing, rule enforcement, refurbishing bathroom, shower, and laundry facilities, and the addition of a youth education center trailer. 70 households were relocated to other nearby PSHH properties.

The next step is to relocate the remaining 73 families who are still housed in tiny, dilapidated, cramped trailers, so that new affordable two- and three-bedroom housing units can be built. It is Peoples' model not to displace low-income families, but to replace or refurbish existing housing for these households. Approval of plans is pending in various City of Carpinteria departments. 

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Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Fair, June 19th

Rochelle Rose, Fund Development Director and Laureen Killenberger, Santa Maria area Portfolio Manager greeting visitors at the PSHH booth at the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Fair. We were able to meet PSHH sponsors, some of our self-help homeowners, and new friends! 

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Montecito Churches Fill 900 Backpacks with School Supplies for PSHH Youth

Pictured in photo, from left:
Lesly Zapata 11, Diana Romero 10, and Mariela Rios 7

Four Montecito Churches are working together to provide 900 backpacks filled with school supplies for Peoples' Self-Help Housing students from Carpinteria to Guadalupe. Members from the "Community of Montecito Churches" include All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Montecito Covenant Church, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church.

On Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 10 a.m. to noon, volunteers will meet at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road, to sort and stuff the backpacks. Backpacks and school supplies were donated by the four churches and their parishioners. Peoples' Self-Help Housing will deliver the backpacks the following week to children in the housing developments.

"The leadership and parishioners of the four churches are truly grateful for this opportunity to serve these local children of lower income families, through Peoples' Self-Help Housing, and to help guarantee that they have the tools necessary to thrive in their school environments," said Don Johnson, spokesman for the Community of Montecito Churches.  

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Planned Giving Corner

Peoples' Self-Help Housing is a California non-profit charitable organization that relies on private gifts, trusts and bequests to support its programs. All gifts are tax deductible and can be made in the form of cash, securities (stock), or real property.

PSHH can also create charitable gift annuities, endowments and trusts that provide income and yield important tax benefits for donors. The Charitable Gift Annuity program is managed through the Santa Barbara Foundation. The minimum gift amount is $10,000. A charitable gift annuity offers many advantages, including:

It's safe. No matter how the stock market performs, your payments will remain fixed and dependable.

It's secure. You will continue to receive payments on a regular schedule, regardless of how long you live.

It's simple. Easy to set up and administer

It's satisfying. Your contribution will help us continue to provide affordable housing and supportive service for years to come.

Sample rates:

• Age 65: 6.0%
• Age 70: 6.5%
• Age 80: 8.0%
• Age 90: 11.3%
• Couples, ages 80 and 75: 6.6%

Please call your tax advisor, attorney, or Rochelle Rose CFRE in our Development Office at:
(805) 962-5152 x227 for more information.

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Upcoming Event:

Taste of Hope
Saturday, July 26th

The agricultural bounty of California's Central Coast is being shared with PSHH
Saturday, July 26, from 2:00-5:00 pm
at the wine tasting rooms of Michael Grace and McKeon-Phillips
2115 South Blosser Road in Santa Maria.

Call (805) 781-3088 x457 to purchase tickets or to donate silent auction items.

Michael Grace Winery will release new Sauvignon Blanc, Rose and Viognier! Only 25 cases are available of each.

If you would like to sponsor the event or donate silent auction items, please call the number above.

Silent Auction Items:Pismo Beach hotel, Rod Stewart Memorabilia, Picnic Beach Package, Gift Certificates, Over night 

Taste of Hope Sponsors to Date:

Landmark Landscape Company

Precision Concrete

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Additional Upcoming Events:

LACHEN TARA GRAND OPENING
Avila Beach, October 2008 (TBD)

STUFF THE BUS PARADE
State Street, Santa Barbara
December 17, 2008 9 a.m. 

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