Together with our local partners, SV@Home formed the Community Roots Collaborative (CRC) in 2024 to spur community-based development in Santa Clara County. Given that there are no community development corporations in our region, our goal with the CRC is to encourage, seed, and grow CDCs in our region by providing a cohort of partners exposure and education of the existing landscape of affordable housing and community development throughout the Bay Area. SV@Home provides a year-long lesson plan on community development, filled with expert speakers and presentations, facilitated discussions among community leaders, and exciting tours of established CDCs. In 2024, our CRC cohort visited and gained inspiration from the San Francisco Chinatown Community Development Center and the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation.
To learn more and join the CRC, contact Kenneth Javier-Rosales at kenneth@siliconvalleyathome.org