Telethon seeks to replenish depleted Silicon Valley coronavirus fund
SV@Home, American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley, and SPUR joined forces with NBC Bay Area for a telethon broadcast, raising funds to help Santa Clara County residents who lost income due to the COVID-19 crisis and are struggling to pay rent and other bills. By MARISA KENDALL | mkendall@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: April 4, 2020 at […]
‘There’s nowhere to go:’ Peninsula tenants face eviction as rent control expires
Decades ago, said Michael Lane of the affordable housing advocacy group SV@Home, cities weren’t thinking too far ahead. “Unfortunately, when programs first began, there were relatively short terms for deed restrictions and people didn’t really think about what happens on the back end,” Lane said. “It’s a real problem.” By EMILY DERUY | ederuy@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News […]
Apple, Google and Facebook committed $4.5 billion for housing. Now comes the hard part
Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of SV@Home, an affordable-housing advocacy group in San Jose, plans to meet with Apple and other companies to boost their policy engagement. “Itʼs really great to get all this land and money, but in order to get units under construction and moving forward, we need to get project approvals,” she said. […]
Apple Pledges $2.5 Billion to Ease California Housing Crisis
Leslye Corsiglia, executive director for Silicon Valley at Home, applauds Apple’s contribution. “I don’t think one corporation is going to solve the problem, but it’s nice to have Apple at the table, particularly to the extent that it encourages other companies.” MATTHEW RENDA │Courthouse News Service November 4, 2019 (CN) – Apple committed […]
How big a dent could Apple’s $2.5B make in Silicon Valley’s housing problem?
Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of SV@Home, notes that Apple’s commitment of $2.5 billion toward California’s housing crisis can provide a subsidy amount of $125,000 per unit, she said, which could be leveraged into 20,000 units. By Jody Meacham │ Silicon Valley Business Journal Nov 4, 2019, 3:06pm PST Updated Nov 4, 2019, 5:14pm PST […]
Legislature Acts on 3Ps Package
With the June 15th constitutional deadline for adoption of the State budget just around the corner, we are on alert with the expectation of significant funding to support local efforts to respond to our affordable housing and homelessness crises. We have reason for hope. Governor Newsom’s May budget revision called for, among other items, a […]
Countywide RHNA Annual Progress Reporting: Falling short on affordable housing production
Annual reports show county’s cities are falling short on affordable housing production even as they surpass targets for market-rate development Recent reports on housing production for 2015-2018 show that the cities in Santa Clara County continue to fall far short of affordable housing goals, while on track to meet or exceed their targets for market-rate […]
15 Cities and the County: All in on the RHNA Subregion
As of Wednesday, February 6th, when the Cupertino City Council took action, all 15 cities and the County have voted to join the RHNA Subregion. The Cities Association of Santa Clara County coordinated the effort, first gauging interest from all cities, then asking them to formally join. SV@Home is supportive of the formation of a […]
Gilroy: Roadblock to Multi-Family Development Approvals Set to Expire
The Gilroy City Council voted on Monday, February 4th to end a 45-day interim Urgency Ordinance preventing approval of any multi-family residential development projects in the city. The Council enacted the ordinance on January 7th, 2019 due to concerns that entitling multi-family development may be in conflict with housing priorities that the city is currently in […]
Morgan Hill: Adopts In-lieu Fees for Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
On October 17th, the Morgan Hill City Council took action to set in lieu fees for its Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, which was approved in July of this year. For projects outside of the downtown, Morgan Hill’s ordinance requires that 15% of the homes be affordable. For those that are located in downtown, 10% of the […]
