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Bay Area town says its location makes housing complicated. Newsom says build or get sued.

Source: SFGATE, By Kasia Pawlowska [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Houses near Half Moon Bay in California. Getty Images/iStockphoto[/caption] Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a serious warning to 15 communities across the state: Come up with a housing plan, or get sued. Half Moon Bay was the only […]

DHA, CCH partner to redevelop 4745 Federal into housing

Source: Colorado Real Estate Journal DENVER – A pair of local organizations addressing housing affordability and homelessness partnered to redevelop a publicly owned vacant site straddling the edge of the Berkeley and Sunnyside neighborhoods. In February, the Denver Housing Authority and the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless […]

St. Helena commits $2.2 million to affordable housing project

Source: St. Helena Star   The St. Helena City Council is committing $2.2 million toward a 40-unit affordable housing project. An artist's rendering of the Fountain Street affordable housing project in St. Helena. Highway 29/128 is visible on the right. To the left is Mills Lane, which would […]

Residents to get first look Monday at a new senior development planned on long-contested Highway 12 site

By Paulina Pineda | Source: The Press Democrat Revived plans for a long-contested housing proposal on Santa Rosa’s eastern edges are wending their way through the city development pipeline three years after the property changed hands. The new owners, affordable housing developer Burbank Housing, envision transforming the 69-acre expanse […]

New affordable housing communities in Colorado aim to serve families with the greatest need

New affordable housing communities in Longmont and Denver's Berkeley neighborhood are offering larger family units and on-site child care as Colorado expands its post-COVID housing investments. By: Adria Iraheta Source: Denver 7 LONGMONT, Colo. — For Skye Beck and her husband, the decision to uproot their family of five […]

Mill Valley reapproves city-led affordable housing project: 1 Hamilton Drive

A rendering of the proposed Bayfront Terrace housing project on Hamilton Drive in Mill Valley. (Van Meter Williams Pollack) By Steven Rosenfeld | [email protected] Source: MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL The Mill Valley City Council has reapproved a four-story, 45-apartment complex for low-income families at the edge of Hauke Park. The unanimous vote Monday […]

Farmworker housing at 555 Kelly is slowly moving forward

By Holly Rusch, Daily Journal staff Full article and source: San Mateo Daily Journal   Half Moon Bay slowly moving forward with farmworker housing. Questions remain on parking, traffic safety as advocates push for progress Half Moon Bay is moving forward with drafting a lease agreement for a 40-unit, five-story […]

Half Moon Bay Council gets ‘the ball rolling’ on 555 Kelly farmworker housing agreement

Source: www.coastsidenews.com By Ashton J. Hacke After 15 months of negotiations over the terms of a lease agreement with Mercy Housing for city-owned land at 555 Kelly Ave., the Half Moon Bay City Council heard public input on Thursday evening, Oct. 16, and then directed staff to […]

VMWP’s Rick Williams at Housing Leadership Day

Please join us at 25th Annual Housing Leadership Day on October 17, 2025 at the South San Francisco Convention Center, 255 S Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080! Rick Williams, VMWP,  will be presenting, "From Workplace to Homebase - Commercial to Housing Conversion" an adaptive […]

Community Feature: Santa Clara County partnership gives surplus food to people in need at affordable housing projects

By: Joyce Chu Full Source: San José Spotlight. Santa Clara County is taking a unique approach to prevent food waste: bring it directly to the people who need it most. Last year, the county started a food recovery program to install commercial refrigerators in affordable housing developments and stock […]

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