San Jose Ministerial Infill Ordinance
Image credit: VTA As part of the continuing work to implement housing element commitments, the City of San Jose is planning to bring an initial iteration of the Ministerial Housing Ordinance to the Planning Commission on December 4th and to Council on December 17th. A ministerial process promotes efficiency and speeds up housing development by […]
Hot Takes: The Effects of Housing Crisis on the 2024 Election
Inflation and the cost of living are widely recognized as heavily impacting this election. That is, a lot of people who voted against the incumbent party did so because of inflation and the cost of living. We have heard this a lot in post-election analyses. But, what we haven’t talked about enough: One of the […]
Heart and Home Column by Josh Ishimatsu: A Price We Pay for Rising Housing Costs
For this month’s Heart and Home, I am writing a companion piece to Cory’s post about how housing costs impacted our recent national elections. Post-election punditry has been talking a lot about the price of eggs, bacon, and gasoline prices and how anxiety around rising costs swung the election. But there is a disconnect between […]
Information about Project 2025 Housing Proposals
Project 2025, Image Courtesy the Associated Press For informational/educational purposes on what might be forthcoming about housing in the new Trump administration, we are summarizing the housing policy proposals from Project 2025, with an emphasis on what is proposed for the short term. While these summaries may not be precisely predictive of the incoming administration’s […]
Election Results
Congress The GOP kept control of the House of Representatives and gained control of the Congress, giving President-elect Trump’s party full control of all three branches of the federal government. Adam Schiff was elected to become California’s junior senator. Sam Liccardo was elected to replace outgoing Representative Anna Eshoo, CA House District 16. State We […]
ICYMI: Community Roots Collaborative’s final two meetings for 2024
SV@Home continues to bring together a cohort of over 15 Santa Clara County-based nonprofit organizations, known as the Community Roots Collaborative (CRC), to learn more about and facilitate the establishment of community development corporations (CDCs) in our county. In October and November, we met twice – our final two meetings of 2024. In October, we […]
Rent Setting Software
HAL-9000, Image Courtesy Stanley Kubrick Productions On October 23rd, SV@Home participated in a press conference by San Jose Councilmembers Ortiz and Cohen, calling for a ban on the use or sale of algorithmic rent-setting services in the city. Recently, several companies have introduced services that use software programs (sometimes referred to as “algorithmic devices”) that […]
Latest Updates on the City of San Jose Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
Open Doors Apartments in Los Gatos, a MidPen Development, Image credit: MidPen Housing Last month, we shared with you an update on the program under development in San Jose which proposes to ease the requirements of the city’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (IHO) on new development. The IHO is an essential tool for producing affordable housing […]
Big mixed income and affordable developments in North San Jose would mark a breakthrough years in the making
River Oaks Parkway Rendering, Image credit: Valley Oak Partners Five major residential projects are in the works for North San Jose with a potential for over 3,200 new homes, including 700 affordable to lower-income households, and additional millions of dollars in fees to support affordable housing throughout the city. Building new homes in North San […]
A Post-Election Message from Regina Celestin Williams
Hello Houser Community, I want to express my appreciation and gratefulness for this platform, recognizing that not everyone has the privilege of an audience like this one. In recent weeks, I have seen leaders in many nonprofit and public service spaces use their platforms to express their commitment to justice, to humanity, and to love. […]