SACRAMENTO —The California Housing Finance Agency has once again received national recognition for being a leader and an innovator in government housing finance.

At the organization’s annual conference in Boston last week, the National Council of Housing State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) announced that CalHFA Executive Director Tiena Johnson Hall had been elected by her peers to serve on the NCSHA Board of Directors for 2024.

Additionally, CalHFA’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Grant Program and its recent Financing System Overhaul stood out among the top initiatives from around the country, earning Awards for Program Excellence.

“I am thrilled that my colleagues around the nation recognized the incredible work CalHFA has been doing,” said Johnson Hall, who had previously served on the Board for the organization’s National Conference of State Housing Boards (NCSHB), when she was on the CalHFA Board of Directors. “It is not only a feather in our cap, but an acknowledgment of the innovative financing solutions that are needed to address California’s housing supply and affordability crisis.”

CalHFA’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Grant Program, which was honored in the Homeownership: Home Improvement and Rehabilitation category, was paused in late 2022 after allocating all program funds to provide grants of up to $40,000 for more than 2,400 low- and moderate-income homeowner to start construction on accessory dwelling units.