May 12, 2021
Growing Home: Poetry, Art, and Music Competition
Student poets, artists, musicians and activists in San Mateo County came together to celebrate our youth and affordable housing. We were joined by San Mateo County Board President David Canepa and San Mateo County’s Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto. The top students presented their poem, artwork, and song or original composition and let us know what home means to them!
Missed this event? No worries! Click here to see a live recording of it!
October 30, 2020
Housing Leadership Day 2020
Virtual Affordable Housing Bus Tour
Take a tour and meet the folks who built, live, and thrive in affordable homes in Montara (Bay Meadows, San Mateo), Habitat for Humanity Condos (Daly City), Mercy Colma Veteran Village (Colma), Jefferson Union High School Workforce Housing (Daly City), Alma Point at Foster Square (Foster City).
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May 7, 2020
May 7: Home Could Be Here: Poetry, Art, and Music Competition
Join HLC and Aileen Cassinetto, the poet laureate of San Mateo County, at this fun event highlighting the talent of our local youth! Featuring performances and showcases of our top five contestants.
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March 26, 2020
SIP (Shelter in Place) with us: Virtual Happy Hour and Housing 101
Why don’t we have more affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area? What’s being done to help all the unsheltered folks during the COVID-19 crisis? How can we build more affordable housing for everyone? We’ll answer all these questions and more in our online happy hour.
January 29, 2020
Housing Affordability in Silicon Valley Forum with CA Senate District 13 Candidates
Voters throughout the Bay Area have consistently ranked the cost of housing as a top concern. Over 8 in 10 believe the cost of housing is an extremely serious problem in what some have called a “crisis.” In Silicon Valley, one would need an hourly wage of $54 for a two-bedroom apartment yet the mean hourly wage is about $38. Consequently, more and more residents find themselves priced out of the neighborhoods they have come to call home.
Simultaneously, the Bay Area has experienced a significant jobs-to-housing imbalance. Since 2010, the Bay Area has added 722,000 jobs but constructed only about 106,000 housing units. This subsequently has meant residents are traveling outside of the Bay Area for work contributing to traffic congestion.
SV@Home’s Action Fund in partnership with TechEquity Collaborative, CA YIMBY, and Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits will host a series of nonpartisan candidate forums featuring candidates for San Jose City Council, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and California State Senate and Assembly districts.
On Jan. 29, CA Senate District 13 candidates were part of a discussion regarding housing affordability. Missed this event? Click below!