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Casa Canal: Mental Peace with Safe Sleep—Spotlight on Nina

Source: California Department of Housing and Community Development For Nina, who lives with schizophrenia and experienced a cycle of homelessness throughout her adult life, the mental peace of not having to wonder where she’ll sleep each night has her feeling like a “princess in a castle.” […]

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 […]

San Mateo County races to rezone to narrow a shortfall of nearly 1,000 homes

  Source: San Francisco Business Times By Douglas Sams – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times The Monarch at Redwood is a $70 million affordable housing development — one of the few housing projects to break ground in San Mateo County. Affirmed Housing/Van Meter Williams Pollack   San Mateo County officials plan […]

SAP Feature: The Greenest Building is the One Already Built: Why Adaptive Reuse Wins

In the face of a dual global crisis, a shortage of housing and an urgent need for climate action, the construction industry is shifting its focus from new to next. Adaptive reuse, the process of repurposing existing structures like vacant offices, old motels, or disused […]

Fremont unveils Bell Street Gardens – affordable housing built on site of motel used to house homeless persons

Full Source: CBS News Bay Area By John Ramos   The site of a former Fremont motel, once used to house homeless individuals, is now a gleaming new affordable housing complex that was unveiled on Wednesday.The opening comes after the city recently caught a lot of flak for […]

Blighted Fremont Motel Takes on New Life as 126-Unit Affordable Housing Complex

Full Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal By Elizabeth Nguyen – Contributing Writer, Silicon Valley Business Journal Resources for Community Development celebrates the grand opening of its affordable housing development Bell Street Gardens in Fremont on July 23, 2025. Photo by Henri Boulanger. A long-vacant Fremont motel that was once considered […]

Groundbreaking Soon For 1371 Kooser Road, San Jose

Source: SF YIMBY By: Andrew Nelson 1371 Kooser Road establishing view, rendering by VMWP Architects The San Jose City Council has approved a $73.7 million bond for the affordable housing infill at 1371 Kooser Road in the Cambrian neighborhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County. The project will soon replace a former Chuck E. […]

ALAS and 555 Kelly Featured in KQED: California Nonprofit Empowers Half Moon Bay Farmworkers with Healing, Resources

Source: KQED Author: Blanca Torres Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) founder Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga poses for a portrait at the ALAS office in Half Moon Bay, California, on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. Hernandez-Arriaga founded ALAS in 2011 to support the Latino community in Half Moon Bay. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)   This […]

Celebrating the Ribbon Cutting of BRIDGE Housing’s Islais Place

Today we celebrate the ribbon cutting of BRIDGE Housing's Islais Place at 4840 Mission Street in San Francisco, California. It is one of the first new 100% affordable housing developments built in San Francisco’s District 11 and one of the first major projects in the […]

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