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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 […]

Affordable Housing Proposed near Redwood City, San Mateo County

Source: SF YIMBY; Author: Andrew Nelson 429 MacArthur Avenue, image via Google Satellite Building permits have been filed for a six-story affordable housing complex at 429 MacArthur Avenue near Redwood City, San Mateo County. The project could add several dozen apartments in the unincorporated North Fair Oaks neighborhood. Affirmed Housing is […]

Just Funded: Oak Gardens, Veterans Housing in Menlo Park

Source: Housing Trust Silicon Valley Congratulations to MidPen Housing on closing construction financing on Oak Gardens in Menlo Park, a 62-apartment housing community dedicated to serving veterans, including formerly homeless veterans, and their families earning between 30% and 50% AMI! Housing Trust was pleased to provide a $2.2 […]

San Francisco officials tout Tenderloin project as city struggles to build more housing

Public, private partnership opens 70-unit project in hard-hit district Source: CoStar; Author: Rachel Scheier All 70 units at 180 Jones in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood will be permanent affordable homes for low-income residents, with half providing subsidized housing and support services for formerly homeless adults. Residents have begun […]

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