September 30, 2021 San Jose Project Roomkey Motel Tenants Can Stay, California Housing Officials Say By Katie Lauer Instead of a proposed $627 monthly fee, the Housing Department must recalculate rents that don’t exceed 30% of tenant incomes Read More 14
October 3, 2018 By the Numbers: San Jose’s Affordable Housing Shortage By Silicon Valley Newsroom The city of a million residents has quite a long ways to go to reach its goal of building 10,000 new affordable homes by 2022. Read More 10
August 20, 2018 Waste Piles Up in San Jose as China Limits Recycling Imports By Jennifer Wadsworth Paper and plastics tossed by U.S. consumers into their blue bins have been piling up ever since China tightened import restrictions. Read More 13
April 23, 2018 San Jose City Council to Vote on Key Changes to Local Rent Laws By Jennifer Wadsworth San Jose leaders will consider key changes to the city’s rent laws, including some that empower landlords and others that favor tenants. Read More 6
August 25, 2017 Op-Ed: Telling the Houseless to Wait for Help Is a Death Sentence By Robert Aguirre, Shaunn Cartwright Sandy Perry Houseless people and those of us who advocate for them have been told, “wait for permanent supportive housing.” We have waited and waited. Read More 14
August 15, 2016 City Council Weighs Contentious Housing Project for Homeless By Jennifer Wadsworth The city has two options for the Evans Lane site: one would house people by next summer, the other would add affordable homes in the long-term. Read More 30