Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Friday, May 15th, 2009
On Thursday afternoon, 5/14/09, Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition celebrated the groundbreaking for Peninsula Station, a new development on El Camino Real in San Mateo. When completed in summer 2010 or so, Pen Station will provide affordable rental homes for 68 working families.
The actual ground was broken several weeks ago, so the ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Yesterday, April 23, 2009, the Association of Bay Area Governments presented the Housing Endowment And Regional Trust—the HEART of San Mateo County—with the 2009 Growing Smarter Together Award in the category of Public/Private Partnerships.
The award was presented to San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom, former Board chair for HEART, and ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Yesterday Housing California announced that Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg has authored SB 500, a bill to create a dedicated state revenue source for affordable homes. This is a high-profile start to a campaign that has been a few years in the making -- since voters approved Prop. 1C, ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
This is straight from the House Appropriations Committee's press release of 2/12/09 about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:Infrastructure
$2.25 billion through HOME and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program to fill financing gaps caused by the credit freeze and get stalled housing development projects moving
$1 billion for ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released the draft Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). It's called Transportation 2035.
I have only skimmed Chapter 1, Overview - Change in Motion, and I'm happy to see a determined focus not just on transportation solutions alone, but also on reducing climate change through appropriate land use ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
This just in from Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition:Jan Lindenthal to Provide Leadership as Vice President of Real Estate Development February 4, 2009 – Foster City, CA -- Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, one of California’s leading non-profit affordable housing developers, today announced the appointment of Jan M. Lindenthal as Vice President of Real ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Writing on the Beyond Chron website, author and Tenderloin Housing Clinic director Randy Shaw labels President-Elect Barack Obama's choice of Shaun Donovan to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development this way: "Obama’s Housing Choice: Best HUD Selection Ever."
Quoting Shaw: In picking New York City housing commissioner Shaun Donovan as ...
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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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