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VMWP at Housing Colorado 2024

Van Meter Williams Pollack (VMWP) is proud to be an annual supporting sponsor, volunteer, and charrette leader of the 2024 Housing Colorado Conference in Keystone, Colorado, October 9-11, 2024. VMWP supports Housing Colorado an industry resource for all aspects of affordable housing, including professional advocacy, issue expertise, and […]

Save the date: Rick Williams to speak at Mpact 2024

Urban Designer, Rick Williams, will be presenting "It's Not Just a Dream: The Joys and Struggles of Realizing a Transit-Oriented Vision" at Mpact Transit + Community Conference 2024   The Mpact Transit + Community Conference (formerly Rail~Volution) focuses on the interplay of transit, mobility, land use and […]

For Half Moon Bay’s Aging Farmworkers, New Affordable Housing Projects Offer Opportunity to ‘Rest With Dignity’

Source: KQED Cassandra Garibay and Hiram Durán, El Tímpano This story was produced by El Tímpano, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area. The original version of the story can be found here. Farmworkers sat in the crowd, […]

555 Kelly Avenue press list

The Half Moon Bay City Council voted unanimously to deny appeals attempting to block 555 Kelly, a 40-unit, downtown apartment complex for senior farmworkers, clearing the way for the project to continue. Congratulations to Mercy Housing and to ALAS, who has compiled this impressive list of […]

Half Moon Bay City Council votes on affordable farmworker housing – The Mercury News

Half Moon Bay residents appealed approval of senior farmworker housing. Here’s what the City Council just decided Under the threat of legal action from Gov. Gavin Newsom, council decides on the fate of the housing project Nonprofit developer Mercy Housing is applying to build a 40-unit, 100% […]

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing to Go Forward After Council Rejects Appeals

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing to Go Forward After Council Rejects Appeals Source: KQED Author: Vanessa Rancaño The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Half Moon Bay officials cleared the way for an embattled affordable housing project for farmworkers to move forward, […]

Vitalia wins 2024 PCBC Gold Nugget Grand Award

VMWP is thrilled to announce that Vitalia was awarded a Grand Award at the 2024 Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget Awards Ceremony! Judges for the 2024 Gold Nugget Awards have named Affirmed Housing's Vitalia a Grand Award winner in its annual competition, which honors architectural […]

Montbello FreshLo – Cover Story in Colorado Real Estate Journal

By the People. Less magic than hard work, FreshLo demonstrates community development done right. SOURCE: Colorado Real Estate Journal WORDS: Sean Vincent O’Keefe   Donna Garnett cares about her community and, like all good developers, she’s looking for a return on investment. As the CEO of the Montbello Organizing […]

The Rose on Colfax has been awarded a Housing Colorado Eagle Award for 2024

Mercy Housing's The Rose on Colfax has been awarded a Housing Colorado Eagle Award for 2024! The project, which combines 82-units of new affordable housing for families and a quality affordable early learning education center for the community, has won one of the most prestigious affordable […]

Brown Bag Training: Powering Up, Utility Impacts On Housing Costs

Affordable Housing takes a whole village of professionals to implement, but one major element that underpins housing is the utility infrastructure required to serve new developments. As we try to serve new communities with improved utility services and advance clean energy all-electric buildings, the implementation […]

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