San Mateo Daily News covers Threshold findings
Monday, March 31st, 2008More news coverage of the Threshold 2008 civic engagement prjoect: Poll: Public wants denser housing San Mateo Daily News 3/30/08
Archive for March, 2008
More news coverage of the Threshold 2008 civic engagement prjoect: Poll: Public wants denser housing San Mateo Daily News 3/30/08
HUD secretary Jackson has resigned
Monday, March 31st, 2008Via SFGate.com, the Associated Press reports that United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson resigned today. Here's the lede: (03-31) 14:09 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage ...
Threshold 2008 publishes full report of findings on housing choices
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008The full report of the Threshold 2008 San Mateo County-wide assembly on housing choices is now available at the Threshold website: Click here (24-page pdf) As we mentioned in our last post on the topic, the results are pretty phenomenal from a housing advocate's viewpoint. Here are some top-level results showing ...
San Mateo County Sub-Regional Housing Need Wins Samceda Award
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Congratulations to the winners of several Samceda awards of excellence today, particularly to the Sub-Regional Housing Needs Allocation process! Duane Bay, San Mateo County Housing Director, and Rich Napier, executive director of the City/County Association of Governments, accepted on behalf of all 20 cities plus the County who participated in ...
Threshold 2008 releases findings from countywide assembly on housing
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The Threshold 2008 civic engagement organization has issued a press release on its findings from the San Mateo County-wide assembly on housing choices, held the weekend of March 15-16. The findings are very encouraging. Here's the top-level statement: An unprecedented scientific random sample of 238 San Mateo County residents deliberated for ...
Regions tiff over Prop. 1C bond funds
Monday, March 24th, 2008California voters approved the Prop. 1C housing bond measure in November 2006. The State of California's Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) is gradually rolling out funding. Details are available on their website at http://www.hcd.ca.gov/fa/bonds.html. Today the Los Angeles Times reports that Southern California officials are feeling left out in the ...
News from the south
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008News from Santa Clara County, that is -- The Mercury News today reports, "Developers drop plan for San Jose's Coyote Valley." Joshua Molina writes, "After spending five years and $17 million, developers who dreamed of building 25,000 homes in San Jose's pristine Coyote Valley have abruptly abandoned their controversial venture." Here's ...
Threshold III: Strategies
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Sunday afternoon the Threshold 2008 countywide assembly on housing issues concluded with a panel discussion of four possible strategies: Streamline the development process Inclusionary housing Dedicated public funding Process for public consultation I was on the panel that answered the following questions from the small groups. Note that the questions were clustered around themes, so ...
Threshold continues: Questions from Saturday afternoon plenary
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Following up from my previous post about the Threshold civic engagement process: SATURDAY AFTERNOON PLENARY Panelists: Peter Ingram, Fran Wagstaff, Audrey Rust, Don Weden, Gary Patton, Duane Bay I missed the first part because I got interviewed by the filmmaker who’s shooting the weekend. What are the state directives for affordable housing? How ...
We have liftoff: Threshold 2008 assembly is under way
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Today the Threshold 2008 civic engagement process got under way, with the launch of the two-day countywide assembly at Canada College. We've blogged it before; and the Almanac News website carried a brief item about it from the local wire service today. Lenore Wilkas scooped us today with her post, San ...
