RSVP for Happy Housers Today

  RSVP TODAY!  Join Us and Celebrate! Come Network with Fellow Housers  Connect with the Leaders of Housing Movement! Come out and connect with the folks who see housing – especially affordable housing – as one of the best ways to build more livable, resilient, diverse, and thriving communities for your children, your parents, your […]

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Join Happy Housers Oct. 26

  RSVP TODAY!  Oct. 26 Happy Housers with Co-Hosts San Francisco Foundation and SJSU Institute of Metropolitan Studies SV@Home and its Coalition of Housers (CoHo), with special co-hosts The San Francisco Foundation and the San Jose State University Institute of Metropolitan Studies, invite you to join us for Happy Housers on Wednesday, October 26 at […]

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Policy Rundown – August 20, 2020

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. San José Commercial Linkage Fee Update On Friday, August 20th, San José staff are scheduled to release their recommendations to the City Council on what level of fees should be charged to new commercial development […]

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Policy Rundown – August 6, 2020

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. As we wrapping up the month of July, most City Councils have started their summer breaks and will not reconvene until August. This means the next several weeks will likely be quieter than normal on the […]

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Policy Rundown – May 4, 2020

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. More Money and Action Needed to Respond to the Impact of COVID-19 on Housing SV@Home signed on to a letter from the Northern California Association for Non-Profit Housing (NPH) and All Home to push for […]

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Policy Rundown – December 19th, 2019

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks as well as key upcoming items where you can get engaged. North San Jose Development Area On December 10th, the San José City Council approved a new direction for the North San José (NSJ) Development […]

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Policy Rundown – December 5th, 2019

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks as well as key upcoming items where you can get engaged. San Jose: Diridon Station Work on the Diridon Station Plan continues to move forward, with the San Jose Council taking action this week on […]

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Apple, Google and Facebook committed $4.5 billion for housing. Now comes the hard part

Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of SV@Home, an affordable-housing advocacy group in San Jose, plans to meet with Apple and other companies to boost their policy engagement. “Itʼs really great to get all this land and money, but in order to get units under construction and moving forward, we need to get project approvals,” she said. […]

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Policy Rundown – August 30th, 2019

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. With city councils returning from their summer breaks, things are heating up on the policy front. Get ready for a whole range of important items and decisions where you can have an impact in the […]

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Policy Rundown – June 20th, 2019

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks: At its June 11th meeting, the San Jose City Council considered and approved the scope of the General Plan Four Year Review, which included a range of important housing proposals. One major idea came from […]

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