Archive for the ‘Housing need’ Category
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I've been carrying around the October issue of Street Sheet, the monthly newspaper of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. There's a lovely tribute to Sister Bernie Galvin, who founded Religious Witness with Homeless People in 1993, and retired earlier this year, after 15 years.
I moved to San Francisco in ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Today the San Francisco Business Times had its annual Peninsula Structures breakfast. The speakers were Rosanne Foust, mayor of Redwood City and vice president for Samceda (San Mateo County Economic Development Association); John Bruno, Redwood City Industrial Saltworks; Greg Walker, Jones Lang LaSalle; Chris Meany, Wilson Meany Sullivan/Bay Meadows; and ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Yesterday the San Mateo County Times published foreclosure figures for the County. If you add them up, there are 3,433 properties currently in foreclosure. That's over 1% of the stock of a little more than 250,000 households&emdash;a low figure compared to the rest of California, perhaps, but shockingly high for ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
The San Mateo County Housing Authority collected some 23,000 applications for the Section 8 waiting list. Reportedly, 95% were submitted online, which is a tribute both to the public libraries' free computers and to the efforts of numerous service providers to assist clients with signing up online.
The Housing Authority will ...
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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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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 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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