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City Council Supports Affordable Housing Development at El Cerrito BART Station

Source: SF YIMBY; Author: Andrew Nelson El Cerrito Plaza aerial view, preliminary rendering of design by Pyatok and Van Meter Williams Pollack The El Cerrito City Council has started to support the next phase of affordable housing as part of the El Cerrito BART Station redevelopment in Contra Costa County. […]

San Rafael office building becomes home for formerly homeless

Source: Marin Independent Journal; Author: Adrian Rodriguez The former office building at 3301 Kerner Blvd. in San Rafael during preparations for conversion to housing for homeless residents. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal) A San Rafael office building that has been converted into a supportive housing complex for formerly […]

This Long Awaited Affordable Housing Unit In San Mateo County Will Begin Construction

This project will turn a six-unit apartment complex into 33 multi-family homes. Source: Patch; Author: Albert Gregory Congressman Kevin Mullen and San Carlos Mayor Sara McDowell will be in attendance for the groundbreaking ceremony. SAN CARLOS, CA — Two housing organizations will host a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday that […]

San Carlos breaks ground on Affordable Housing

Source: San Mateo Business Journal 33 homes coming to city’s affordable housing inventory in 2026 [caption id="attachment_13833" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Members of the San Carlos City Council, housing developers and local leaders celebrate the groundbreaking of a 33-unit affordable housing development on Cherry Street. From left, Vanessa Rodriguez, […]

Modular Construction Enables Efficient and Affordable Housing

NREL Teams Up With iUnit To Advance Lower-Cost Modular Housing Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); Author: Tara McMurtry NREL researcher Shanti Pless (center) introduces visitors to the NREL Research Block, which currently hosts iUnit Communities’ modular apartment prototype, shown on the right. Photo by Joe DelNero, NREL Recently, […]

Community Feature: Make It Home

COMMUNITY FEATURE: Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods and is in partnership with Eden Housing to give the heartfelt gift of furnishings to future residents at 3301 Kerner. As many residents are previously unhoused, the units […]

S.F.’s newest housing development feels like a ‘new city’ to neighborhood residents

Source: San Francisco Chronicle; Author: J. K. Dineen Sunnydale Hope SF is San Francisco’s newest housing development. “Housing first” has become a mantra for a generation of urban policy makers: the idea that a place to live is the first step in dealing with the mental illness […]

‘It doesn’t feel real’: Long-rumored 1,100-unit Balboa Reservoir housing project finally breaking ground in S.F.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle; Author: J. K. Dineen Customers are seen inside a packed Java On Ocean Cafe, a longtime neighborhood institution, on Ocean Avenue in the Ingleside neighborhood. A mural is seen along Ocean Avenue. In the nine years since they opened Ocean Ale House just west […]

Menlo Park affordable housing Oak Gardens development breaks ground

Affordable housing developer MidPen Housing recently broke ground on Oak Gardens a 62-unit development in Menlo Park, the home to tech and finance giants such as Meta, Robinhood and Andreessen Horowitz. The housing community, located at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at 795 Willow Road, […]

Mountain View allocates nearly $20M for two affordable housing projects

Developers are proposing to build more than 400 units of affordable housing on E. Evelyn Avenue Source: Mountain View Voice; Author: Emily Margaretten Mountain View recently approved the appropriation of $19.3 million to help finance two all-affordable housing developments, located at 87 E. Evelyn Ave. (shown in […]

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