ACTION ALERT: Tell San Jose Housing Department We Need More Affordable Housing Everywhere!

  ACTION ALERT: Tell San Jose Housing Department We Need More Affordable Housing Everywhere! We need policies that expand choices, not ones that use maps to deprive poorer communities of affordable housing investments San Jose’s Housing Department is conducting Affordable Housing Siting Policy Community Meetings  Thursday and Friday. Tell the City of San Jose that […]

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Policy Rundown – June 17, 2021

Welcome to SV@Home’s Policy Rundown, your need-to-know overview of important housing policy actions and developments from the past two weeks. Palo Alto City Council Delays Action on North Ventura On Monday, the Palo Alto City Council decided to delay action on the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan until the Fall. After over two years of […]

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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 – July 23, 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 continue through the month of July, most City Councils are on their summer breaks and will not reconvene until August. This means the next several weeks will likely be quieter than normal on […]

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Policy Rundown – July 9, 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 enter 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 – January 30th, 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 well as key upcoming items where you can get engaged. San José State University Housing Announcement On Monday, San José State University President Mary Papazian announced a number of bold steps the University is […]

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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 – April 24th, 2019

Welcome to our new Policy Rundown, a recap of the need-to-know policy decisions impacting housing over the past two weeks across Santa Clara County. This regular newsletter feature will be your go-to policy recap highlighting the most important decisions made, with links to further information so you’re able to dig in to the details, supporting […]

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Countywide RHNA Annual Progress Reporting: Falling short on affordable housing production

Annual reports show county’s cities are falling short on affordable housing production even as they surpass targets for market-rate development Recent reports on housing production for 2015-2018 show that the cities in Santa Clara County continue to fall far short of affordable housing goals, while on track to meet or exceed their targets for market-rate […]

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