San Jose officials are working on new strategies to stop displacement in the Bay Area’s largest city, this month releasing a new anti-displacement report as officials host community meetings to drum up feedback and ideas to keep people from being pushed out. The 80-page report, Ending Displacement in San Jose, was released Jan. 15 and...
UPDATE: State to transfer downtown property to SJSU for student, faculty housing
San Jose State University leaders, along with state and local officials, have announced a suit of new initiatives to address homelessness and housing issues at the university, including a slew of grants to help with near-term needs and a plan to redevelop a nearby state office building site into 800 to 1200 new homes. “Our...
Owner-occupied homes in Santa Clara County has hit a 20-year low
Homeowners in Santa Clara County are living in their own houses at the lowest rate seen in more than two decades, new data shows, even as Silicon Valley faces a complex housing crisis that has pushed many out of the region or onto the streets due to a shortage of homes and spikes in housing...
San Jose lawmakers approve plan to keep Winchester Ranch seniors housed
For seven tumultuous years, the residents of a west San Jose mobile home park dueled with the city over razing their community of mobile homes to build 700 units of luxury housing. But last week, the uncertainty the park’s residents faced for nearly a decade was put to rest. Lawmakers unanimously approved a plan that...
San Jose: Permits for ‘granny units’ spiked last year, but 2020 may be bigger
Last year was a big year for accessory dwelling units — or “granny units” — in San Jose, where the number of people seeking to build the little backyard homes nearly doubled from 2018, and the number permitted to start construction grew even faster. Recent San Jose data shows that 695 applications for new ADUs...
New report paints a bleak picture of displacement in San Jose
More than 1.5 million residents fled the Bay Area between 2010 and 2016 due in part to the rising cost-of-living, including San Joseans who are increasingly forced out. A coalition of local housing advocates, nonprofits and lawmakers recently released a report that they hope will shine a light on how displacement is a driving factor in the...
San Jose: New home for homeless women and children opens
With rising housing costs exacerbating California’s severe homeless crisis, the Kinkade Family Foundation and CityTeam on Thursday teamed up to open a new home for homeless women and children in San Jose. After the 2012 death of Thomas Kinkade, an American artist known as “the Painter of Light,” his family started the Kinkade Family Foundation to honor...
San Jose: Fears grow over mobile home park closure, lawmakers offer solutions
Westwinds Mobile Home Park resident Rob Leeper was astonished when he found a letter taped to his home Friday, informing him his family could be out of a place to live by the fall of 2022. “We were like ‘what the heck?’ You know how much it costs to move one of these things?” Leeper...
Sand Hill invokes controversial state law to build 91 townhomes in Saratoga
Sand Hill Property Co. is planning a new 91-townhome development in Saratoga, but the project comes with a twist: the prominent developer is using a controversial state law to streamline city approvals. Since Senate Bill 35 took effect in 2018, the law, which speeds up the development of certain housing projects, has been used only...
Jim Beall reintroduces affordable housing bill vetoed by Newsom
California’s housing crisis dominated headlines in 2019, but one San Jose legislator’s effort to alleviate its impact left Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk without a signature. Last year’s Senate Bill 5, authored by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, aimed to support Newsom’s goal of building 3.5 million housing units by 2025 by establishing an Affordable...
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