Half Moon Bay needs more homes for farmworkers. Experts blame an ‘anti-housing constituency’
The deadly shooting of seven agricultural workers in Half Moon Bay brings national attention to the scarcity of adequate housing for the workers who farm the crops. Affordable developers like MidPen are ready to do the work to build more permanent affordable units in the region.
Encompass receives $9 million for Watsonville behavioral health center on campus that includes affordable housing
Partners with nonprofit developer MidPen Housing to include a 72-unit affordable housing development on the forthcoming health campus.
People on the Move: Shwetha Subramanian, MidPen’s new Chief Real Estate Development Officer
In her role as Chief Real Estate Development Officer, Shwetha leads MidPen’s 40+ member development team, currently stewarding a pipeline of more than 25 development projects that will produce an additional 3,000 homes over the next five years.
New affordable housing community opens in Oakland
At a time when the housing shortage is on full display in the Bay Area, leaders in Oakland are celebrating Foon Lok West, a new, large affordable housing community right on the Oakland estuary.
Kiku Crossing art panels celebrate San Mateo’s history and culture
Public art at the MidPen Housing community invigorates downtown San Mateo
Affordable housing developer celebrates Atkinson Lane groundbreaking
MidPen celebrates the Groundbreaking of Pippin Phase II, providing 80 affordable apartments for families including farmworker households
People on the Move: Kasey Archey Joins MidPen Housing
As MidPen’s new Senior Vice President, Property Management, Kasey leads a staff of 250+ and has oversight of a housing portfolio of more than 8,000 affordable rental homes across 10 San Francisco Bay Area counties.
Editorial: NIMBY cities, watch out. California is cracking down on housing scofflaws
The housing shortage is at the heart of the state’s biggest problems, and California needs to add between 1.8 million and 2.5 million homes by 2025 to ease the shortage that has driven up rents and home prices, and the Newsom administration is cracking down on jurisdictions that make it too hard to build much-needed housing.
OpEd: Congress must ease inflation by making housing more affordable
“Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities such as gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.”
Redefining downtowns
How Peninsula cities have completely transformed their civic centers, with the inclusion of communities like Arroyo Green in Redwood City.