Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Which way is the housing market headed?
It all depends on your city, the type of home, and whether you rent or own.
A story last month by Carolyn Said in the San Francisco Chronicle covered a study by Zillow that illustrated ZIP code illustrated the housing market with a "heat ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Today the San Mateo Daily News highlighted the upcoming countywide assembly on housing issues, organized by the Threshold 2008 civic engagement project:
Citizens debate housing crunch by Will Oremus.
In the interest of full disclosure, Threshold's executive director, Greg Greenway, is a member of the HLC board of directors. (We'll have more ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Today the Examiner ran a story previewing the Threshold 2008 civic engagement effort. It kicks off this coming weekend with a two-day "countywide assembly" for 400 people, chosen to represent a statistically valid sample of San Mateo County's demographics.
When Damien Frank went home shopping in 2005, his needs were simple: ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Tonight you can learn about purchasing a below-market rate home in the 88 South Broadway development in Millbrae. That's the big new development on El Camino Real, nearly kitty corner from the BART/CalTrain station. The seminar is at the Community Center, 477 Lincoln Circle, Millbrae, 7:30-8:30 pm.
Here's the event announcement:
88 ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Today, the San Mateo Daily Journal's front-page, above-the-fold story reports:
A trio of environmental groups plan to announce a ballot measure today to protect parks and open space in Redwood City... This morning, Save the Bay Executive Director David Lewis, Ralph Nobles of Friends of Redwood City and Lennie Roberts of ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
When I worked for a nonprofit affordable housing developer in San Francisco, I once had a conversation with a commercial broker who said, "Nonprofits tend to do better in slowdowns. They can compete for the land. In a rising market, they can't compete as well."
That's been one of the issues ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
The website for the Threshold 2008 civic engagement project is up now at:
http://www.threshold2008.org
In their words: "Threshold 2008 was formed to engage the public on housing issues and options in San Mateo County... We believe that by including more people in the discussion and by understanding the range of perspectives on ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
The Silicon Valley Index by Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and Silicon Valley Community Foundation was released last week, and it showed that middle-income jobs are becoming scarcer, while low-income jobs are growing fast and high-income jobs are growing moderately. The SF Chronicle editorialized about it today (3/2/08), and this ...
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