Featured Article | April 9, 2025
Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes: Who Pays the Price?
California has a severe shortage of affordable and available rental homes for extremely low-income (ELI) renters —a deficit of nearly 1 million units. According to a recent report, the Gap, from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, only 24 affordable homes are available for every 100 ELI renter households in the state. And according to […]
Read More
March 26, 2025
Soft Stories: Delay of the Implementation of San Jose’s Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance
Photo: Soft-story building collapsed during the Northridge earthquake, 1994. LA Times On March 25, 2025…
March 26, 2025
Progress in Mountain View’s Gatekeeper Process—But There’s More to Do
Image: City of Mountain View SV@Home calls for reforms to Mountain View’s Gatekeeper process, which…
March 26, 2025
Community-Based Development Advances in East San Jose
Almost a decade after its doors closed, a youth center formerly operated by the Mexican…
March 26, 2025
City of San Jose Budget Update
On March 18th, San Jose’s City Council voted 7- 4 in a contentious meeting to…
March 26, 2025
Mountain View Moves Forward with R3 Zoning Updates
Image: Mountain View Aerial of Apple Site, by California.com Mountain View is moving forward with…
March 17, 2025
Agenda Item 3.3 – In Response to the Mayor’s March Budget Message
Dear Mayor Mahan, Vice Mayor Foley, and Councilmembers Kamei, Campos, Salas, Cohen, Ortiz, Mulcahy, Doan,…
March 12, 2025
The Price of Housing is More Important than the Price of Eggs
Heart and Home: A column by Josh Ishimatsu For me, eating breakfast is a solitary…
March 12, 2025
How Can You Punish Someone For Being Homeless When There Isn’t Enough Shelter?
Image: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan during a press conference taken by Beth LaBerge, KQED…
March 12, 2025
Takeaways from Housing California 2025: Place-Based Community Development is Solidarity in Action
The Housing California 2025 Annual Conference highlighted the urgent need for Solidarity in Action to…