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A report detailing Menlo Park’s housing construction progress in 2024 reveals that the city is mostly meeting the production targets outlined in its state-certified housing element for the 2023-2031 housing cycle. As of the end of 2024, Menlo Park had already permitted 35.7% of the 2,946 units the state

Affordable housing developer MidPen Housing recently broke ground on a 62-unit development in Menlo Park, the home to tech and finance giants such as Meta, Robinhood and Andreessen Horowitz. The housing community, located at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at 795 Willow Road, helps meet the city’s need

The location is an infill site on the VA Palo Alto Health Care system campus, owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The 100 percent supportive housing community will feature 62 apartments, including two managers’ units, that will serve veterans and their families earning up to 30 to

Construction on Casa Roseland is expected to start in January. The project calls for 75 affordable apartments for households earning 30% to 60% of the area median income. It’s being developed by MidPen Housing, one of the largest affordable housing developers in Northern California.

In December 2024, the Colibri Commons project team, community members, and supporters gathered to celebrate the topping out of a new affordable housing community in East Palo Alto. The development will provide 136 affordable homes.

Members of Del Campo a Cambio urged San Mateo County Supervisors to keep supporting affordable housing, especially homes for farmworkers, on the South Coast. The group connected with MidPen Housing to learn more about developments in Half Moon Bay.

AB 2097… is essential to supporting transit and bicycle ridership and enhancing our quality of life, as well as meeting our Sustainability / Climate Action Plan, vehicle miles traveled-reduction, and housing goals.

Demolition permits have been filed for the existing parking garage at 850 Turk Street in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. The application follows the late-October new building permits being issued for the eight-story affordable apartment complex with nearly a hundred units.

MidPen Housing’s Kiku Crossing community is almost fully occupied, with 93% of families moved in. The 225-unit, all-affordable development was completed earlier this year and more than 6,500 applications were received for the units. “It’s a really diverse affordable housing community both in terms of the population served and

Foon Lok East is a part of Brooklyn Basin, a master-planned community along Oakland’s waterfront that will provide over 3,100 new homes for people of all ages, income levels and walks of life within a vibrant, 64-acre, mixed-use district that includes retail, parks and open spaces.

In the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, three organizations–MidPen Housing, local climate nonprofit Menlo Spark, and the Association for Energy Affordability–teamed up to retrofit Willow Court, an affordable, multifamily housing building, with fully electric appliances.

Three parties–SFUSD, the Mayor’s Office, and the United Educators of San Francisco–came together to address the need for housing for school employees in the city. MidPen worked closely with the union to understand salaries, pay schedules, household compensation, and household incomes that drive eligibility.

Foon Lok East, the fourth and final affordable housing development at Brooklyn Basin in Oakland, Calif., has been completed. The development adds 124 affordable units to the neighborhood, including 38 apartments reserved for people who have experienced homelessness.

The filing indicates progress from the development team ahead of expected construction to start next year. MidPen Housing and Tishman Speyer were selected to be co-developers of the state-owned property made available through the California Surplus Land Act.

Project team collaborators with MidPen Housing include Alameda Point Collaborative, Operation Dignity, and Building Futures. The team aims to reshape the nearly eight-acre parcel within the former military installation with a “catalytic development that will deliver quality affordable housing combined with supportive services for people who have experienced homelessness