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Please support Jamilla Afandi as SFNOMA 2024 Vice President/President-Elect

Today we ask you to support Jamilla Afandi as the 2024 SFNOMA Vice President/President-Elect. Jamilla has served NOMA and SFNOMA since 2013, dedicating her time and passion to NOMA's mission of advocacy, equity, and justice for communities of color. As the current 2023 SFNOMA Vice President, […]

Year in Review: Weathering changes, Mountain View pushes ahead with housing growth, school agreements and novel technologies

Source: Mountain View Voice; Author: Emily Margaretten Weathering big changes, the city of Mountain View eventually took a shine to 2023. The year started with an onslaught of unexpected challenges, from extreme weather conditions to a housing plan that was not on track to win state approval. But going back to […]

With funding boost, plans advance for redevelopment of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park

Housing Authority receives $24M grant, submits plans for rebuilding Palo Alto mobile-home park Source: Palo Alto Online; Author: Gennady Sheyner; Homes inside the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto on Feb. 14, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.   For the second time in the past decade, the […]

555 Kelly in Half Moon Bay gets $2 Million for farmworker housing

Half Moon Bay gets $2M for farmworker housing By Mark Sayre Source: Half Moon Bay, KTVU FOX 2 It has been a tough year in the coastal community Half Moon Bay – still reeling from a shooting in January that left seven farmworkers dead. That shooting prompted calls for […]

San Rafael updates fees to support affordable housing

Source: Marin Independent Journal; Author: Adrian Rodriguez Scaffolding covers 3301 Kerner Blvd., which is being converted from an office building to apartments, in San Rafael, Calif., on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.   San Rafael has become the latest Marin city to update the fees it charges developers to […]

El Cerrito proves that carrots, not sticks, create lasting housing solutions

Source: League of California Cities El Cerrito has been a bastion of housing development for decades. The mayor of this bedroom community of 25,000 still remembers when she first encountered the city’s then-unusual stance on housing. Lisa Motoyama approached the city council in 2005 about a […]

Santa Clara County commits $31M to support affordable housing projects in Palo Alto and Mountain View

More than 300 multifamily rental units will help ease housing crisis in two cities Source: Palo Alto Online; Author: Emily Margaretten A rendering of the proposed affordable housing development on Terra Bella Avenue in Mountain View. Rendering courtesy Alta Housing.   Taking steps to address the region’s housing crisis, […]

Santa Clara County approves six affordable housing projects with some of the last of Measure A funds including VMWP’s Terra Bella and Kooser

Measure A money has now funded 4,749 affordable homes By GRACE HASE | ghase@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: December 5, 2023 at 5:40 p.m. | UPDATED: December 6, 2023 at 1:58 p.m. Santa Clara County is adding 716 new affordable homes to its housing stock, largely using Measure A money, leaving the […]

Demolition Starts For Casa Roseland, Santa Rosa

Source: SFYimby; Author: Andrew Nelson Casa Roseland Family Apartments aerial view, rendering by VMWP Architects   Demolition has started for a new affordable housing complex at 665 and 883 Sebastopol Road in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. The development, named Casa Roseland, will bring 75 new units along a retail thoroughfare […]

Unanimous endorsement for affordable housing at 1 Hamilton in Mill Valley

Mill Valley commission advances Hamilton Drive housing City-owned property at 1 Hamilton Drive in Mill Valley, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) By KRISSY WAITE | kwaite@marinij.com The Mill Valley Planning Commission has endorsed a controversial affordable housing development at 1 Hamilton Drive. The commission’s unanimous vote on […]

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