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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San Jose Mercury News: Is this the end of single-family zoning in the Bay Area? San Jose, Berkeley, other cities consider sweeping changes
BY: Louis Hansen┃San Jose Mercury NewsPUBLISHED: March 1, 2021 at 7:00 am A small, city-by-city…
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San Jose Mercury News: Will San Jose move to densify single-family neighborhoods like Sacramento just did?
The concept of allowing up to fourplexes on a single-family lot is nothing new to…
January 13, 2021
San Jose Inside: New Apartment Proposal Puts Palo Alto Zoning Plan to the Test
Leslye Corsiglia, executive director for housing nonprofit SV@Home, commended the Palo Alto City Council for…
January 11, 2021
San Jose Spotlight: How much do you need to earn to buy a home in San Jose? More than $240K a year
Mathew Reed, Policy Manager with SV@Home, said the housing market, which has far outpaced the…
December 18, 2020
San Jose Spotlight: Rent prices fall 7.7% in San Jose, but mostly from a drop in demand for luxury rentals
Matthew Reed, Policy Manager at Silicon Valley at Home, explains that rents are more stable…
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Protocol: How one woman is building the future for Google in Silicon Valley
“We basically allowed the situation to get completely out of control,” said David Meyer, the…
December 9, 2020
San Jose Inside: California Renters Face Eviction as Pandemic Protections Expire
Mathew Reed, Policy Manager at Silicon Valley at Home, says it’s been a challenge to…
December 8, 2020
KQED: Facebook Pledges $150 Million to Build Affordable Housing in the Bay Area
Facebook’s pledge of $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing in the…