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Alta Housing Breaks Ground on 71-Unit New 100% Affordable Housing Community in Mountain View

Source: WRCBtv Press Release Distributed by ABNewswire.com | Monday, August 24, 2020 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Alta Housing, a community-based, nonprofit developer virtually celebrated the groundbreaking of its newest 100% affordable residential rental community at 950 W.El Camino Real in Mountain View, California, on August 21, 2020. The new 71-unit residential […]

Eagle Park Named as a 2020 Silicon Valley Structures Award Winner

Retail, residential, commercial and community projects to be honored for 2020 Structures Awards Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal Posted by Lynn Peithman Stock | August 18, 2020 This year’s Structures Award honorees include a billion-dollar retail expansion, a new transit center and a new facility for adoptable animals. We will recognize […]

After decades of trying, SF supervisors finally approve 1,100 homes at Balboa Reservoir

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted by Trisha Thadani | Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Balboa Reservoir — now a parking lot for students at City College of San Francisco — will be developed into 1,100 units of housing, 550 of them affordable. Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle San Francisco’s […]

100% Affordable Housing Gets Underway in Mountain View

Source: GlobeSt.com Posted by Lisa Brown | Wednesday, August 5, 2020 A 100% affordable 71-unit residential rental community at 950 W. El Camino Real will provide independent living for a mix of single- and two-person households earning between 50% to 70% of the area median income. MOUNTAIN VIEW, […]

71-unit 100% affordable housing development breaks ground in Mountain View, Calif.

Source: BDC Network Posted by David Malone | Monday, August 3, 2020 Courtesy Alta Housing Located on the 0.61-acre site of a former Taco Bell at 950 W. El Camino Real in Mountain View, Calif., a new 71-unit rental community has broken ground. The 100% affordable housing project will […]

Colma Veterans Village Among Affordable Housing Finance’s 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards Finalists

Colma Veterans Village has been announced as a Special-Needs Finalist in the Affordable Housing Finance's 2020 Readers' Choice Awards for its role in helping meet the housing and health needs of vulnerable veterans in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 66 unit affordable veterans housing […]

The Balboa Reservoir project will be a huge benefit to the community

Source: San Francisco Examiner Community Contributor | Tuesday, July 21, 2020 | Opinion I am a resident of Ingleside and I live across the street from the proposed Balboa Reservoir development. The opinion piece published recently, ‘Board of Supervisors should say no to the Balboa Reservoir project,’ made a few […]

VMWP is 2020 Gold Nugget Merit Award Winner – Best Affordable Housing Community

Judges for the 2020 Gold Nugget Awards have named Van Meter Williams Pollack as an Award of Merit winner in its annual competition, which honors architectural design and planning excellence and draws entries from throughout the United States and internationally. VMWP earned its Merit honors for […]

Development is Home to Older, Frail Veterans

Source: Housing Finance Posted by Donna Kimura | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Colma Veterans Village delivers 66 housing units plus health care. Colma Veterans Village brings together affordable housing and health services to formerly homeless veterans in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 66-unit property serves as the foundation for […]

Social Distance Drag Show Brings Queens to LGBTQ Seniors During Coronavirus Pandemic

Source: Datebook Posted by Tony Bravo | Saturday, May 23, 2020 [caption id="attachment_2602829" align="aligncenter" width="646"] Princess Panocha applies make up before she performs in a social distance drag show for queer elders living at Openhouse LGBTQ senior housing in San Francisco.[/caption] Drag queens Mary Vice and Princess Panocha have […]

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