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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Today the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo announced that it will open its waiting list -- for the first time in several years -- from Monday, July 7, to Saturday, July 12. The Housing Authority will then randomly select 3,600 pre-applications from the completed.
They will also be ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
This just in from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition:
Senate To Continue Action on Housing Bill on June 24
Amendments Likely, Stay TunedThanks to your action, by a strong bipartisan vote of 77-11, the U.S. Senate rejected an attempt to gut the dedicated revenue source for the National Housing Trust Fund. Senator ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Last week Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition hosted a celebration for Fran Wagstaff upon her retirement after 25 years as CEO of Mid-Pen. Held at the San Mateo County History Museum, it was a wonderful event with a packed house for the celebration program. The program featured a well-done tribute video, particularly ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition today announced that Matt Franklin will succeed Fran Wagstaff as President of Mid-Pen upon her retirement at the end of June.
Matt is currently director of the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and is past Director of Housing and Community Development for the State of California.
Fran ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
"San Mateo may have a Goodyear for cheap housing."
That was the screaming headline on the front page of the Examiner last December 10. Inside the paper, a calmer article reviewed plans for Peninsula Station, the proposed development by Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition in San Mateo. On the site of the Goodyear ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Carolyn Said in the SF Chronicle on 4/15/08 reported on an "Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance telephone poll of 1,002 adults, including 769 homeowners." Unsurprisingly, people are worried.
What interested me was that even as people worry about slumping home prices, they understand the reality that tightened credit and mortgage ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Last night, the San Mateo Planning Commission approved the first Site Plan and Architectural Review (SPAR) for the Bay Meadows project, phase 2. Housing Leadership Council endorsed the overall Bay Meadows II plan, and we spoke last night in favor of this first section of actual development. The vote was ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Today I attended HLC member Project Sentinel's fair housing symposium. Project Sentinel is a non-profit agency "providing services to help people resolve housing problems," and is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency.
They have had numerous calls from homeowners facing foreclosure, so I was interested to attend the morning workshop on that ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Rory Brown of the Almanac News reports that the Menlo Park Planning Commission approved the new version of the proposed Derry housing development:New Derry project wins support
Menlo Park Planning Commission OKs 108-condo project
The Menlo Park Planning Commission approved the new Derry condo-commercial project Tuesday. The 108-condo project is expected to ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Via 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 ...
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