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.
Federal Housing Deputy Secretary Tours New Affordable Housing On Waterfront
Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Adrianne Todman toured MidPen’s Paseo Estero and Vista Estero at Brooklyn Basin on Tuesday and spoke with Oakland officials, including Mayor Libby Schaaf, about Oakland’s housing supply, homelessness challenges and community development goals.
BART to launch pilot program for rider pass compatible with all Bay Area transit agencies
A pilot program could begin as early as August and would offer up to 50,000 transit passes to riders, including residents at four MidPen communities.
MidPen celebrates 1500 Capitola Road groundbreaking, following five-year development process
After five years of development, a local nonprofit developer broke ground Wednesday on 57 units of affordable housing in Live Oak. Said MidPen CEO Matt Franklin: “This was remarkably hard to bring all of this together.”
Citing new report, Bay Area mayors and advocates call to strengthen Homekey
A new report from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation shows the impact and potential of California’s Homekey Program, which funds the conversion of hotels and other properties for use as interim or permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness. Homekey used unprecedented levels of state funding to create more than 8,000 homes at more than 100 projects for the Californians who need them most.
One Bay Area county says it could end homelessness this year. Can its approach spread?
Last year, we partnered with County of San Mateo to transform a hotel into 95 permanent supportive homes. Shores Landing welcomed formerly unhoused residents home, offering a safe and stable community to provide and connect residents with the resources and services to change their lives.
City, county break ground for new affordable housing project
City and County leaders joined MidPen in celebrating the start of construction on Fair Haven Commons, 72 affordable apartments for families and households with supportive housing needs.
Guest Commentary | Gratitude for community solutions in the time warp of 2021
Susan True, CEO of Community Foundation Santa Cruz County shares a great lesson as the world navigates the past 20 months: Continue to care for each other, for as long as it takes.