Featured Article | October 10, 2024
The Community-Based Developer Collective: Why Place Matters in Community Development
By: Gabriel Frank-McPheter Acknowledgements: Thank you to Deland Chan and Remy De La Peza for supervising this project, and to Eric Wu for assisting in data collection and producing the graphs and charts in this memo. A special thank you to all of the members of the CBDC for their feedback. This work builds on […]
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October 24, 2024
Sunnyvale Adopts an Ordinance Reducing Retail Requirements for Affordable Housing Along El Camino Real
Last week, SV@Home submitted a letter to the Sunnyvale City Council supporting a proposed ordinance…
October 24, 2024
Fair Chance Ordinance in Palo Alto
In 2017, SV@Home worked closely with the residents of a downtown apartment building in Palo…
October 10, 2024
Heart and Home Column by Josh Ishimatsu: The Fall of MACSA and Lessons for the Future of Community Development in Santa Clara County
In this edition of our newsletter, we have a couple of other pieces about community…
October 10, 2024
New Laws Clarifying and Limiting Builder’s Remedy Will Take Effect Soon
Image: Redco Development and Midar Investment want to employ the state builder’s remedy to build…
October 10, 2024
Potential Changes to Inclusionary Housing Requirements in San Jose
Image: Prado Apartments, Santa Clara What is an Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (IHO)? Inclusionary housing ordinances…
October 10, 2024
The City of San Jose takes action to require safety retrofits of soft-story buildings, but more analysis of financial impacts on tenants is needed
Image: Soft-story apartment building collapse in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, L.A. Times Soft-story buildings are…
September 26, 2024
Tasman East Update: Community Meeting and Development Progress
On September 12th, Related Santa Clara hosted a vibrant community meeting to update residents on…
September 11, 2024
Heart and Home Column by Josh Ishimatsu: The Value of a Home
This will be a shorter column this month. By the time this is posted, my…
September 11, 2024
SV@Home Advocates for Mountain View Gatekeeper Project
We are pleased to share our recent advocacy efforts for a vital mixed-use project at…