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Rick Williams, Presenter at Housing Leadership Day

"Practical Steps to Creating Teacher Housing" HEART welcomed over 60 educators and housing supporters to a “nuts and bolts” workshop on how to prepare a feasibility study of a teacher housing project. Four distinguished guest panelists described the critical steps districts need to take to asses […]

Development Team selected for Balboa Resevoir

As design team members of the AvalonBay Communities and Bridge Housing partnership, we have been selected as the development team for the 17-acres of the Balboa Reservoir site.       http://news.theregistrysf.com/san-francisco-selects-avalonbay-bridge-housing-development-proposal-balboa-reservoir-project/ […]

Colorado Park Rehab in the News

Colorado Park made the news recently about the grand re-opening hosted by  Palo Alto Housing. Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff, City Council Members, and other local leaders were there to celebrate the successful rehab of the project. "The City of Palo Alto is proud to be a longstanding […]

Fairfax Victory Village Approved!

Victory Village a 54 unit affordable senior housing development has been approved by the Town of Fairfax. "This is the largest development approved in Fairfax in over 35 years” noted the Mayor, as the Council was approving the development unanimously and with complete support of the […]

San Francisco welcomes first LGBT senior housing

Source: SF Curbed Posted by Breanna Reeves | Thursday, June 22, 2017 “In a city that is in some ways very youth-focused, it’s nice to have a home that’s specifically about seniors.” As a dearth of affordable housing continues to plague San Francisco, the Mayor’s Office of Housing has […]

St Joseph’s Wins CNU Charter Award

Van Meter Williams Pollack won a CNU Charter Award for the redevelopment of the landmark former St. Joseph’s convent in Oakland, California into affordable housing. Says CNU, "The unique character of St. Joseph’s provides a strong sense of place in Fruitvale, Oakland. Five historic buildings, dramatic trees, and […]

Aura of history at old college buildings in SF

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted by John King | March 22, 2017  [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="578"] Richard Smallcomb views murals that were altered in previous developments inside the restored Richardson Hall on Laguna Street in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Smallcomb was among the first residents […]

Potrero Hill’s biggest housing project starts with plenty of hope

Source: San Francisco Chronicle J.K. Dineen | Saturday, January 28, 2017   Without so much as a press release or ceremonial groundbreaking, the biggest housing project in the history of Potrero Hill got under way this week on a weedy lot on the southwest corner of 25th and […]

Del Corazon will bring 197 affordable apartments to Westwood neighborhood

Source: The Denver Post  Posted by Joe Vaccarelli | Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7-building complex should be complete by first quarter of 2018 A $40 million project now under construction will bring 197 affordable apartments to Denver’s Westwood neighborhood by the first quarter of 2018. The 4.5-acre Del Corazon […]

Rebuild Potrero HOPE SF Wins Research, Planning, Analysis and Communication Award

VMWP and GLS's Rebuild Potrero HOPE SF project just won a Research, Planning, Analysis and Communication Merit Award. Read More on asla-ncc.org Rebuild Potrero is a 38-acre redevelopment site on the steep south facing slope of Potrero Hill. 606 units of aging federally owned public housing will be replaced […]

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