The San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) has earned a national reputation as a model public housing agency,creating innovative programs that provide housing opportunities for low-income and homeless individuals and families in the city of San Diego—the eighth-largest city in the nation, second largest in California. An award-winning, state-chartered public housing agency created in 1979, SDHC performs three major programfunctions that create affordable housing opportunities: Federal rental housing assistance provider for more than 15,000 low-income households, annually; Partner to address homelessness, including HOUSING FIRST – SAN DIEGO, SDHC's landmark Homelessness Action Plan; and Affordable housing developer, investor and lender— producing more than 17,000 affordable housing units since 1981 through partnership developments and acquisitions. "We're About People."