Founded in 1978, AMCAL is committed to revitalizing the housing landscape of California, and has won multiple awards for its rental and for-sale products. From land acquisition to design, to coordination with municipalities and final construction, AMCAL communities always look and feel like market-rate developments.

During the past several years, AMCAL has developed, or is currently in the planning process of building and developing more than 2,800 affordable rental and for-sale units. The new housing is located throughout California, including Goleta in Santa Barbara County, Simi Valley, Pomona, Victorville, Coachella, Palmdale, Maywood, Sacramento, San Diego, the San Joaquin Valley, the Bay Area, and numerous urban revitalization projects in central Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

The value of AMCAL projects currently under development exceeds $260,000,000. Financing is based frequently on allocations of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and traditional institutional equity and bank loans. Since 2003, AMCAL has been awarded among the highest allocations of state and federal tax credits in California, valued at more than $300,400,000.

Strong financial institutions are impressed by AMCAL’s competence and regularly partner on for-sale and rental product, including the SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, Genesis Workforce Housing Fund (Phoenix Realty Group), Wells Fargo Bank, Citibank Community Development, California Bank and Trust, John Hancock Life Insurance, Hudson Housing Capital and Verizon Capital.

Award-winning architects are partners at the earliest stages of planning, including Van Tilburg, Banvard and Soderbergh, Withee Malcolm, Newman Garrison Gilmour + Partners and KTGY Group. Design excellence is incorporated in every project, and AMCAL’s Castelar Apartments in Chinatown was named a “Best of Downtown” new affordable development in 2004.

AMCAL has won numerous awards for its rental and for-sale products, including the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Award for its Positano development in Santa Barbara and several Elan Awards for its Canyon Cove for sale development in Oak Park. Its Avenue 26 Master Plan was a nominee for “Project of the Year” for Affordable Housing Finance magazine’s 2006 “Readers’ Choice” awards, and won the Multifamily Executive magazine’ 2007 “Editors Choice – Project of the Year” award and the NAHB’s 2007 “Innovation in Workforce Housing” award.

Most often, AMCAL’s affordable developments offer amenities similar to market-rate projects. Computer centers, job training, childcare, English language lessons and senior services are available at most new communities.

AMCAL is vertically integrated with acquisition, development, finance, asset management, and construction departments, which results in efficiencies and cost savings. From land acquisition to design, to the coordination with municipalities and final construction, AMCAL communities always look and feel like market-rate developments.

Quality is built in, and with AMCAL, ‘affordable’ never means less.

“Delivering the Dream”

AMCAL is a long-term partner and dedicated to the communities in which we build our new housing. Our integrated, mission-based approach combines development, finance, construction and property management. That is implemented by a team of talented professionals with diverse backgrounds in the public, private and non-profit sectors in order to create the best overall “fit” for a neighborhood.

AMCAL has a headquarters in the Los Angeles area and regional offices in Orange County and the San Joaquin Valley, which provides a local presence and helps our staff to listen closely to the needs of these unique communities throughout the California. Our team members build strong relationships over the years with government and community leaders, and use this knowledge to build the best buildings and provide the most useful support services to our residents. During the entitlement process, AMCAL listens intently to suggestions about the design and amenities needed.

AMCAL typically partners with a non-profit developer or service provider that has ties to the local community, which opens lines of communications and allows for better understanding of the neighborhood. In the San Joaquin Valley, we have partnered with Better Opportunities Builders, a Fresno-based non-profit. In southern California, our partners include the Foundation for Affordable Housing, a San Juan Capistrano-based non-profit, and Las Palmas Foundation, a San Diego-area based non-profit. In Los Angeles County, AMCAL has partnered with W.O.R.K.S. (Women Organizing Resources, Knowledge and Services), which is a respected local service provider.

AMCAL remains as the long-term owner construction is completed, and does not sell off its developments. We implement staffs with local knowledge and strong relationships that engage with the community. As an everyday stakeholder, our goal is to build new developments that neighbors support and to lend a hand to improve everyone’s lives. In that way, we all benefit.