Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Today the Threshold 2008 civic engagement process got under way, with the launch of the two-day countywide assembly at Canada College. We've blogged it before; and the Almanac News website carried a brief item about it from the local wire service today.
Lenore Wilkas scooped us today with her post, San ...
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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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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
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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