Evaluating a Housing Element for Feasibility
Housing advocates can help ensure Housing Element plans meet state requirements by reviewing each jurisdiction’s housing element in detail to evaluate it for feasibility. This process is focused on the ways that cities can appear to be in compliance with housing element law while encoding barriers to permitting and economic feasibility. One required component of […]
High Opportunity Areas
High opportunity areas are places that currently have strong economic, environmental, and educational outcomes. Locating affordable housing in high opportunity areas would result in more racial integration of neighborhoods, and offer new economic opportunities to low-income people. High opportunity areas should be a top factor in considering the share of total housing need allocated to […]
San Jose lawmakers approve new fee caps for developments
SV@Home’s Policy Manager, Mathew Reed, cautions San Jose councilmembers against setting a premature and arbitrary linkage fee cap in San Jose. The long-awaited professional analysis that was supposed to be the basis for the decision is due to be released next month. BY: Janice Bitters┃San Jose Spotlight PUBLISHED: June 18, 2020 If developers […]
Bay Area’s state-mandated housing goals to more than double as cities lag behind
BY: Janice Bitters ┃San Jose Spotlight PUBLISHED: June 19, 2020[spacer height=”20px”] Ready or not, the Bay Area’s new state-mandated housing development goals have arrived, and the numbers are bigger than ever before. Bay Area municipalities are expected to be responsible for planning, zoning and approving a combined 441,176 new homes between 2023 and 2030, according […]
Staedler: Park space vital for dense urban development
SV@Home believes that a truly urban Diridon Station area offers tremendous opportunity for the full variety of uses supported by the community. While the station area is adjacent to a significant amount of existing parkland, we are confident that the varied interests can be accommodated – including 15,000 homes of which 25% will be affordable.[spacer […]
Local bans on residential evictions extended into August
Leslye Corsiglia, Executive Director of SV@Home, encourages county supervisors to decouple the county’s eviction moratorium ordinance from the governor’s executive order in order to provide clarity and certainty to both tenants and property owners.[spacer height=”20px”] By KEVIN FORESTIERI │ Mountain View Voice PUBLISHED: May 30, 2020, 11:26 am[spacer height=”20px”] Cities and counties throughout California are […]
Affordable Housing Month 2020 Past Event Recordings
SV@Home is excited to convene our regional housing partners throughout Santa Clara County in celebrating a virtual Affordable Housing Month 2020! Full of virtual events, activities for all ages, and invigorating conversations, AHM 2020 brings our community together to learn, engage, and act on how we can work to make Silicon Valley a more affordable […]
San Jose Diridon Station plan forges ahead as planners adapt to COVID-19
The vast majority of San Jose’s staff recommendations align with SV@Home’s Housing Vision for the Diridon Station Area, including up to 3,225 affordable housing units. But as SV@ Home’s Mathew Reed points out, without a commercial linkage fee that could help fund affordable homes, it’s unclear how the city can meet its housing goal.[spacer height=”20px”] […]
Silicon Valley coronavirus relief fund nears $25 million, more still needed
At SV@Home, we understand how critical it is to come together to help our neighbors who have lost their income due to the COVID-19 pandemic and can no longer pay their rent or other bills. We were proud to join our partner agencies and NBC Bay Area in a telethon that raised more than $277,000, […]
Policy Rundown – April 17, 2020
Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. Housing Policy and Land Use: What’s moving forward? What’s not? Some actions are on hold— San Jose’s Four-Year General Plan Review Task Force meeting scheduled for April 30th has been canceled. A timeline for resumption of […]
