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
May 4, 2021 SCC Supes to Vote on $350M in Bonds for Affordable Housing By Jana Kadah, Bay City News The county hopes to purchase and build homes on several sites to reach its goal of 4,800 new units by 2027. Read More 8
April 30, 2021 Big City Mayors Ask State for $20 Billion to Curb Homelessness By Jana Kadah, Bay City News The mayors want $4 billion per-year for five years in flexible funding as part of the state budget. Read More 10
March 19, 2021 One Year: The Pandemic’s Timeline in Santa Clara County By Silicon Valley Newsroom A look back at some of the events—big and small—that shaped the past 12 months of tumult during the pandemic. Read More 1
March 17, 2021 Displaced Sunnyvale Homeless Residents Are a Symptom of a Broader Regional Issue By San Jose Inside Dozens of homeless residents lived in Fair Oaks Park until a construction project forced them out, despite the pandemic. Read More 40
December 23, 2020 South Bay Project Roomkey Residents Fear a Housing Shuffle By San Jose Inside The initiative has turned 16,000 hotel and motel rooms in 55 counties and tribal areas into housing for 22,300 people. Read More 9
October 26, 2020 Gov. Newsom Announces Project HomeKey Funding, Including $56 Million for Bay Area Projects By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Project HomeKey is a statewide initiative that buys different motels, hotels or apartment buildings and transforms them into housing. Read More 3
August 5, 2020 California Cities, Counties Target Homelessness with Newly Launched Project HomeKey By Janis Hashe Can a program created to help the most vulnerable during the pandemic successfully morph into permanently helping the unsheltered? Read More 9