Getting Inclusionary Housing Right

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Cities across Santa Clara County are considering this powerful tool to build more new affordable homes without subsidy.

But done wrong it can fall short, or even stop the development of new homes in its tracks. Learn how it works, and how to get it right!

Many of our local cities are joining forces right now in a shared nexus study, the wonky and in-depth analysis that assesses the feasibility of local residential development and the potential for developers of market-rate housing to add a share of affordable homes to their buildings.

If cities require too few affordable homes or affordability that’s too shallow, they leave public benefits on the table. Too much, and developers can’t build any housing at all.

Come hear about local cities that are getting it right: successfully using inclusionary housing policies to achieve mixed-income communities, generate funding to subsidize deeper levels of affordability, and gain valuable land for affordable homes!

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The Santa Clara City Council is scheduled to vote on the final approval of the Agrihood development on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019. This approval, originally scheduled for October 9th 2018, has already been pushed back five times.

SV@Home has endorsed the Agrihood as a great model of highly affordable, dense, transit-oriented development. Click here to read more and sign on to our petition to support 361 new homes, of which 181 will be affordable housing!

This is a critical project that would bring significant affordable housing to Santa Clara, and we encourage all of our partners to come and speak in support of the Agrihood  at the City Council meeting on January 29th! If you are interested in speaking, please email mitch@svathome.org.

For more context on the Agrihood’s approval process, see our blog post from the planning commission hearing on August 8th: https://siliconvalleyathome.org/santa-clara-planning-commission-advances-the-agrihood/

When:
January 29th - January 1st 1970
7:00PM - 12:00AM
Where:
Santa Clara City Hall Council Chambers

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