Affordable Housing Month 2025 will be here before you know it! There is strength in coming together. There is strength in community. There is #StrengthInHousing.
In Affordable Housing Month 2025 in Santa Clara County, we come together to renew and revitalize our commitments to affordable housing and housing justice. We come together to renew and revitalize our collective commitments to uplift our communities and to make sure everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable home. It is up to us to build the community that we want to see.
This Affordable Housing Month, our programming will reinforce our resilience, our diversity, our creativity, and our sheer drive to implement local solutions. Join us in uplifting our collective #StrengthInHousing!
Past Years
Local San Jose artist, Rayos Magos, created 2024’s artwork.
AHM is the time to bring people together so that we can all transform our communities into more diverse, affordable, equitable, and accessible places to live — which brings us to 2024’s theme of #4Us4You4All, recognizing that our well-being is tied to the well-being of our neighbors.
This means moving housing affordability beyond the creation of affordable homes for individuals to the realization of stable neighborhoods for whole communities – a vision going beyond housing as a human right to one of healing and restoration for us, for you, and for all. That is why we lift up local partner programming to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the affordable housing ecosystem in Santa Clara County and the strength of our collective work. The future we envision for the Bay Area begins with us.
2023 #BuildingCommunity
As we close out Affordable Housing Month this year, SV@Home extends a big thank you to our sponsors, co-hosts, partners, speakers, and panelists for their unwavering commitment to combating our housing affordability crisis.
We invite you to take the time to reflect on how our theme of “Building Community” will help us continue the momentum of building diverse, affordable, equitable, and accessible communities for everyone in Silicon Valley.
Missed an event? You can find a full list of recordings below!
2022 #ReimaginingHome
During the entire month of May, SV@Home convened our region’s housing partners to host dozens of virtual workshops, webinars, and creative community engagement opportunities to educate, activate, and engage advocates and the general public around the housing challenges facing our community and the solutions we can pursue together. Our theme this year, Reimagining Home, invited participants to think outside of the box, deepen their knowledge, and join together to shift the collective perspective on building equitable, inclusive, restorative communities.
2021 #SiliconValleyIsHome
We’re so glad that hundreds of you joined us for Affordable Housing Month — Silicon Valley (AHM) 2021! During the entire month of May, SV@Home convenes our region’s housing partners to host dozens of virtual workshops, webinars, and creative community engagement opportunities to activate and engage our community of housing advocates and the general public about our housing challenges and solutions. Did you miss an event? Many events were recorded- catch up below! Want to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes of Affordable Housing Month? In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, SV@Home Communications and Membership Manager.
Poster art by Alfred Twu.
2020 #BeMyNeighbor
2019 #Year4Housing
2018 #ItsTime4Yes
Recap 2020: Be My Neighbor
In 2020, our fifth annual public education and awareness campaign pivoted from a weeks-long to a month-long program with creative community engagement opportunities, in a time when the importance of a secure, safe, and affordable home has become even more crucial.
The global pandemic, coupled with our ongoing housing challenges, has made for a public health crisis at unprecedented scale. Yet even as we practice physical distancing, we are seeing in magnified ways how much we rely on the people, nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies around us for our individual and societal well-being.
Full of virtual events, activities for all ages, and invigorating conversations, AHM 2020 brought our community together to learn, engage, and act on how we can work to make Silicon Valley a more affordable place to live for all of our residents. We highlighted not only our housing challenges, but also dug into the solutions we are building together, with workshops, game nights, and more! View event recordings here.
You also joined the conversation during the Month by participating in our #BeMyNeighbor story share. We invited you to share a fond memory of a neighbor, whether from present day or your childhood, with the hashtag #BeMyNeighbor so we could share and highlight your story during Affordable Housing Month.