Featured Article | March 28, 2024
San Jose City Council Requests More Information About Affordable Housing Funding as it Approves the Mayor’s 2024-2025 March Budget Message
Every year the Mayor of San Jose releases the March Budget Message and brings it to the City Council kicking off the beginning of budget discussion for the coming year. The Budget Message is not actually a budget, it does not include tables with revenue and proposed expenditures, it is rather an outline of the […]
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June 2017 Legislative Update
June 2nd was the last day for bills to make it out of their house…
June 1, 2017
Santa Clara Working Group Finalizes Impact Fee Recommendations
On Wednesday, May 31st, Santa Clara’s Ad Hoc Affordable Housing Working Group finalized recommendations on…
May 29, 2017
What has the Santa Clara County Housing Authority been doing for 50 years?
The Santa Clara County Housing Authority recently turned 50, and executive director Katherine Harasz shared…
May 26, 2017
Five reasons why Silicon Valley needs more housing of all kinds, everywhere, now.
Justin Ewers of the California Economic Summit wrote an excellent roundup of some of the…
May 25, 2017
Affordable Housing Week 2017: #ItsUpToUs, Silicon Valley!
Spotlight on Housing #ItsUpToUs, Silicon Valley 12 days. 24 events. Over 950 people. A little about…
May 10, 2017
San Jose City Council Approves Just Cause Ordinance, Effective Immediately
On May 9th, the San Jose City Council voted 9-2 to approve a Just Cause…
April 3, 2017
Santa Clara Kicks Off General Plan Process
According to findings presented by Housing and Community Development Director Andrew Crabtree, Santa Clara reached…
March 31, 2017
Palo Alto Approves New Affordable Housing Impact Fees
After the new City Council voted to reopen the discussion on impact fees in January,…
March 10, 2017
Palo Alto ‘granny units’ encouraged by new zoning rules
Palo Alto’s city council recently made it easier to build ADUs – a great victory…