North Richmond Las Deltas Re-Development

Last updated: November 20, 2024

Developer Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the 11+ acre Las Deltas Main Campus Site a former public housing development in North Richmond.

The Housing Authority of Contra Costa County (HACCC) is excited to announce an RFQ for developers interested in acquiring land from HACCC to build permanent housing. The RFQ aims to select a developer with the experience and capacity to partner with HACCC and North Richmond community stakeholders to address the urgent need for affordable housing.

Site Location: West of 1st St. between Ruby St. and Wildcat Creek, North Richmond, CA 94801

HACCC encourages developers with a proven track record building and operating mixed-income affordable housing to review the RFQ and consider submitting an application.

Schedule (subject to change):

Developer RFQ issued by HACCC
November 4, 2024

Developer RFQ Now Available

Pre-proposal meeting and site walk with HACCC staff was held on November 20, 2024.
List of attendees can be found here

Open Office Hours with HACCC staff via Zoom from 1 – 2 p.m.
December 3 and December 17, 2024

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89482208868
Meeting ID: 894 8220 8868
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Questions and Answers and RFQ Addenda Posted
at https://contracostaha.org/las-deltas-redevelopment
Ongoing

RFQ Proposal Submission Deadline
2:00 p.m. PST. February 4, 2025

Publish the Results of the Evaluation Process
March 13, 2025

Request HACCC Governing Board Approval
April 8, 2025

Begin Exclusive Negotiations with Lead Developer
May 1, 2025

Las Deltas Development Interest

This webpage is intended to share information and updates for the North Richmond community and other stakeholders about the redevelopment of the Las Deltas Public Housing sites. The Housing Authority of Contra Costa County (HACCC) is transitioning the currently vacant land through three phases of selling or leasing the land to non-profit developers who will transform it into new affordable housing opportunities.

The goals of these processes are to:

  • Stabilize and improve the neighborhood
  • Enable new wealth-building opportunities and self-sufficiency for North Richmond families
  • Enable a right to return for those who lived at Las Deltas at the time of its closure

Results of Below market RFQ Sales

The top four proposals came from the following developers:

1. Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond (CHDC)

2. Richmond Community Foundation (RCF)

3. RichmondLAND (RL)

4. Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services (RNHS)

Each organization was awarded four buildings each to be sold at $1 per building. HACCC has Board and HUD approval to execute a HUD-required Declaration of Restrictive Covenants for each building to ensure that the properties remain limited to families at or below 80% of the area median income for a period of 20 years, and that any housing units built on any of the sites must give priority to former public housing residents of Las Deltas, then to current and former North Richmond residents and, lastly, the general public.

If you are interested in purchasing one of the remaining Las Deltas scattered site buildings, please subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates on the appraised value and sale date. We recommend preparing by getting financially ready, finding a realtor, and getting pre-approved for a loan. A map of all units can be found below. All units labeled “None” under awardee will be sold at market rate.

Las Deltas Community Meeting:

We had a great turn out for our community meetings on December 2nd, 2023 and
April 16th, 2024 from 3:30-5:30pm. All four of our selected developers presented
on the homes they are going to be building, and we also had great presentations
and tabling opportunities from financial and homeownership counseling teams.

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If you are interested in buying one of the homes that you heard about at

this event, please fill out the form below. This will add you to the interest list and enable the
developers to get in touch with you as opportunities arise.

HOMEOWNERSHIP INTEREST FORM

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VIEW INTERACTIVE MAP OF PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS

Disposition Process

Phase 1: Below Market Rate ($1) Sale of 16 buildings (28 units)

HACCC published a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) in April 2023 inviting non-profit housing developers based in, or doing significant work in North Richmond, to submit proposals for the development of 16 of the Las Deltas scattered sites. In September 2023, four sites each were awarded to four developers (Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond (CHDC), Richmond Community Foundation (RCF), Richmond LAND, and Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services (RNHS)). The RFQ incorporated ideas put forth in the Quality of Life Plan and the Resilient by Design competition, among others.

  • The scattered sites are encumbered by a restrictive covenant for a period of 20 years from closing which requires that the units may only be rented or sold to families at or below 80% of area median income.
  • The developer selection panel included HACCC, Supervisor Gioia’s Office, County DCD, and 3 North Richmond community members.
  • Out of the 42 buildings of scattered site housing, 16 buildings were available through the RFQ to be and will be “sold” for $1 each in order to significantly lower the development costs for the non-profits.
  • The RFQ was designed in a flexible manner that allows non-traditional “ownership” options such as community land-trusts or co-ops to compete on an even footing with traditional ownership models. HACCC is interested in both wealth creation for individuals and long-term control by neighborhood groups of individuals from the neighborhood.
  • Now that the developers have been selected, HACCC and the Fellow will work with them to design a selection process for the first time homebuyers who will be prioritized in the sale of these refurbished units. We will prioritize former Las Deltas residents and current North Richmond residents first, and lastly, the general public. We will ensure that buyers clearly understand the type of housing options being offered.

Phase 2: Market Rate Sale of 26 buildings (52 units)

  • The remainder of the scattered site units will be sold at market value to allow HACCC to recover some of the costs that have been put forth at Las Deltas and redirect money to improving the remainder of the County’s public housing stock.
  • The details of this market rate sales process will be determined soon and posted here.

Phase 3: Request for Proposals to Develop Main Campus (approximately 11.38 acres)

  • The main campus will have its own Request for Proposals (RFP) process after all scattered sites have been sold. It is likely that the selection process for a developer of the main campus will kick off in 2024. The RFP will incorporate ideas put forth in the Quality of Life Plan and the Resilient by Design competition, among others.

History of Las Deltas

HACCC has played a significant role in North Richmond since the 1950s by providing affordable housing to the community through a robust public housing program, that at its peak, offered 224 units of affordable housing across an 11.38-acre main campus, 48 scattered site duplexes, and 4 single family homes throughout the neighborhood. Las Deltas, the main campus, represented more than 20% of the neighborhood’s housing stock at the time the project was decommissioned in 2020. Decades of unsuccessful attempts to bring additional financial resources to the maintenance of the public housing portfolio resulted in the transition of the properties through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program and the Section 18 Demolition and Disposition process. Long-time North Richmond residents were relocated from 2017 – 2020 and the affordable rental funding attached to the public housing units at Las Deltas were dispersed throughout the County through the project-based voucher program.

As the HACCC releases the vacant public housing sites for sale, this process will be the single most transformative factor in determining the future of North Richmond for decades to come. It will have a significant regional impact, due to the sheer scale of the housing development within the Bay Area. This is a pivotal moment in North Richmond and creative policies are needed to support existing and displaced residents’ ability to stay, return, and thrive. This is a once-in-several-generations opportunity to integrate affordable housing preservation and production with comprehensive revitalization and community development of the neighborhood in a manner that achieves long-term community wealth-generation, integrates health equity and climate resilience.

Documents and Resources

For additional information, please see the reports and external articles listed below.

Las Deltas Redevelopment Presentation

North Richmond Quality of Life Plan

ouR-HOME: Resilient by Design

To Place Our Deeds by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

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