A Message from the Executive Director: Our 2025-29 Strategic Plan
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With a new year, comes a feeling of opportunity. The opportunity to reflect on the past, to assess the current status of […]
San Jose approves $5 Million for Preservation of Affordable Housing
The San Jose City Council approved $5 million from Measure E funds to support the South Bay Community Land Trust (SBCLT) in acquiring and rehabilitating the Virginia Avenue Apartments. This marks the city’s first allocation of these funds for preservation, establishing a model for future community investments in deed-restricted affordable housing. View staff report. The […]
Homekey: A Pathway to Affordable Housing Solutions
Photo credit: Jamboree Housing website The San Jose City Council approved $5 million from Measure E funds to support the South Bay Community Land Trust (SBCLT) in acquiring and rehabilitating the Virginia Avenue Apartments. This marks the city’s first allocation of these funds for preservation, establishing a model for future community investments in deed-restricted affordable […]
San Jose Approves Streamlined Infill Housing Ordinance
Photo credit: Screenshot of CSJ Youtube channel, Manuel Salazar On December 17th, the San José City Council took decisive action to address the city’s housing crisis by approving the Streamlined Infill Housing Ordinance. This policy is a significant step forward in accelerating housing production in San José and fulfills a key commitment in the City’s […]
San Jose Council Adopts Multifamily Housing Incentive Program, significantly limiting the public benefit of the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
Photo credit: San Jose Spotlight It is imperative that as local jurisdictions take steps to help market rate housing development move forward, they do not sacrifice the significant public benefit of the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (IHO), an important tool to meet the needs of our lower-income residents struggling everyday with the high costs of […]
2024: Challenges and Triumphs in Affordable Housing Development
Photo credit: Solaire Grand Opening, photo by Manuel Salazar This year has been a rollercoaster for affordable housing development with no shortage of hurdles to overcome. From mounting interest rates to exorbitant costs for insurance, labor, and materials, 2024 has tested our resilience in unprecedented ways. Funding, a consistent source of concern for affordable housing […]
Gratitude for Our Departing Board Members
Like many nonprofit organizations, SV@Home has term limits for our board of directors. As an organization that was first incorporated in 2016, this means that, in 2024, the board members who have been here since the founding of the organization are reaching the end of their 8-year terms of service. These founding board members each […]
End of Year Message from the Executive Director
With the defeat of Prop 5 and other unfortunate election results, 2024 did not end well. Nevertheless, 2024 was a year full of exciting accomplishments for SV@Home: SV@Home is a membership organization and we accomplish nothing without our members, partners, allies, and supporters. More than anything else, we want to thank everybody who has attended […]
ICYMI: Holiday Happy Housers
Our annual Holiday Happy Housers event in Downtown San Jose was a huge success! Housing advocates and long-time supporters joined us at Mama Kin to celebrate the evening and learn about our biggest accomplishments of 2024. Guests were also given a sneak peek of our new strategic plan, which will be rolled out in January. […]
Heart and Home Column by Josh Ishimatsu: Celebrating Housers- Housers are like Firefighters and Healthcare Workers
Nobody blames firefighters for the fact that we still have fires. Nobody blames healthcare workers for the fact that people still get sick. And yet, we blame housers and supportive service providers for the fact that we still have unhoused people. At an unconscious level, we understand fire and disease as endemic and stochastically inevitable. […]
