Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The 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 ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Congratulations 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 ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The 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 ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
California 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 ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
News 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 ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Sunday 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 ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Following 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 ...
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