Introducing Leyla Carleo, 2025 Affordable Housing Month Artist!
The SV@Home team is thrilled to unveil our 2025 Affordable Housing Month artwork by multi-disciplinary artist, Leyla Carleo! Our AHM artwork is a visual representation of our theme, #StrengthInHousing. Our team is busy creating a program to reinforce our resilience, our diversity, our creativity, and our sheer drive to implement local solutions. We hope that […]
Will San Jose greenlight new affordable housing policy?
As part of our work to preserve existing affordable housing and build community control of housing ownership, SV@Home is a member of the San Jose COPA Coalition. COPA is a valuable tool that would help people stay in their homes and increase the city’s supply of affordable housing. SV@Home will host a discussion about COPA on March […]
Mountain View’s 8-year Draft Housing Plan Fails to Meet State (HCD) Standards for Housing Needs, Raising Concerns for all Silicon Valley Cities
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct. 3, 2022 – Last Thursday, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, sent a 12-page letter to the City of Mountain View outlining how the draft housing plan submitted in July would require substantial revisions to comply with State law. SV@Home, and local housing advocates have been expressing concerns for months that […]
New Housing Needs Report for Santa Clara County Highlights Challenges for Low-Income Families Even as Affordable Housing Resources Increase
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 10, 2022 – SV@Home today announced that the California Housing Partnership’s 2022 Affordable Housing Needs Report shows increases in the cost of living continue to push housing affordability out of reach for many low-income families in Santa Clara County. Key Findings for Santa Clara County: Renters in […]
Policy Rundown – August 26, 2021
Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. Council to consider New Affordable Housing Siting Policy in San Jose On Tuesday, August 31st, the San Jose City Council will consider adoption of an Affordable Housing Siting Policy, which will provide a new framework […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
