Overview
Resources for Community Development (RCD) is a Bay Area nonprofit real estate developer that builds, owns, and preserves affordable housing for low-income people, seniors, and those with special needs. It acquires sites, assembles mixed public and private funding (including VHHP), and develops or preserves housing, while offering on-site resident services that support stability, health, economic security, and youth programs. RCD sets itself apart by pairing affordable housing with community development and advocacy through a dedicated department, focusing on long-term financial health of properties and neighborhood improvement as a whole. Its goal is to provide permanently affordable homes for vulnerable residents and to act as a catalyst for positive community change.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- RCD brought 446 apartments online and welcomed 900 residents in 2025.
- Civic Crossing adds 93 deeply affordable homes and a $9.9 million AHSC grant.
- California reauthorized AHSC at $800 million annually through 2045, strengthening RCD funding.
What critics are saying
- Federal 2026 proposals eliminate HOME and CDBG, threatening RCD project financing.
- People’s Park litigation already forced RCD out of Berkeley’s supportive housing project.
- Public-subsidy dependence creates existential risk if California housing funding weakens or stalls.
What makes Resources for Community Development unique
- Forty years in Bay Area affordable housing gives RCD deep local entitlement expertise.
- RCD builds 100% affordable, transit-oriented homes with resident services and special-needs housing.
- RCD combines development, asset management, and on-site services across six counties.
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