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 […]
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December 20, 2024
San Jose Approves Streamlined Infill Housing Ordinance
Photo credit: Screenshot of CSJ Youtube channel, Manuel Salazar On December 17th, the San José…
December 20, 2024
San Jose Council Adopts Multifamily Housing Incentive Program, significantly limiting the public benefit of the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
Photo credit: San Jose Spotlight It is imperative that as local jurisdictions take steps to…
December 20, 2024
2024: Challenges and Triumphs in Affordable Housing Development
Photo credit: Solaire Grand Opening, photo by Manuel Salazar This year has been a rollercoaster…
December 20, 2024
Gratitude for Our Departing Board Members
Like many nonprofit organizations, SV@Home has term limits for our board of directors. As an…
December 20, 2024
End of Year Message from the Executive Director
With the defeat of Prop 5 and other unfortunate election results, 2024 did not end…
December 19, 2024
ICYMI: Holiday Happy Housers
Our annual Holiday Happy Housers event in Downtown San Jose was a huge success! Housing…
December 19, 2024
Heart and Home Column by Josh Ishimatsu: Celebrating Housers- Housers are like Firefighters and Healthcare Workers
Nobody blames firefighters for the fact that we still have fires. Nobody blames healthcare workers…
November 21, 2024
San Jose Ministerial Infill Ordinance
Image credit: VTA As part of the continuing work to implement housing element commitments, the…
November 21, 2024
Hot Takes: The Effects of Housing Crisis on the 2024 Election
Inflation and the cost of living are widely recognized as heavily impacting this election. That…