Incorporated in 1988, we are a network of local housing advocates, private and nonprofit affordable housing developers, lenders, and engaged individuals who believe that housing is a basic human need and the cornerstone of vibrant communities.

Our mission is to lead a campaign for housing to ensure that working families and individuals, people in crisis, persons with disabilities, and fixed-income seniors may live with opportunity and dignity.

We seek to accomplish this mission through the following activities:

• Advocacy:  Lending a collective voice to providers of affordable housing and the people they serve, NCHC provides the statewide voice for low-income North Carolinians in the General Assembly and with other key policymakers at state and local levels. The Coalition monitors programs and legislation, and is leading a grassroots campaign to build an endowment for housing in North Carolina.  Click here to learn more about our state and local advocacy and here to learn about our federal advocacy.
• Resource and Information Referral: The Coalition also works to help provide people with information on affordable housing, whether they're looking for affordable housing or assistance or working to develop housing.
• Research and Best Practices:  We serve as a clearinghouse of information research, statistical information, and best practices in affordable housing.  We have also produced several publications of our own, including the popular Affordable Housing Primer,  to assist our members with their work.  Click here for more information.

Specific programs include:

• CHIN (Carolina Homeless Information Network):  CHIN is a program of the NC Housing Coalition to bring about a statewide information database of homeless service providers.  This program serves local agency record-keeping needs as well as provide local, regional, and statewide unduplicated demographic data about the state's homeless population for the first time.  To learn more about CHIN, click here.
• HUD OTAG Program:  The HUD OTAG program ended in 2007.  We are currently lobbying the Obama administration to renew funding to create a similar program in 2010.  To learn more about what this work entailed, click here.