| | Affordable Housing Month Updates |
| Sponsorship Opportunity Please consider supporting HLC's events and programs by sponsoring Affordable Housing Month. We would love to partner with you to bring impactful and informative events to our supporters. Check out our sponsorship benefits here. |
| |  | The deadline to submit an Affordable Housing Month 2021 Event Proposal Form has been extended to Monday, March 8 at 12 pm. If your organization or company is interested, please fill out and send the event proposal form below. Feel free to contact Vivian Le, Fundraising and Events Manager, at vle@hlcsmc.org if you have any questions or comments. |
| | |  | Visit hlcsmc.org or click here to view submission instructions. |
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| Affordable Housing Finance Information Session |
|  | Please “lend” us your ears on Thursday, March 18, from 6:30 - 7:30 pm and “trade” your time for a lesson on affordable housing finance! Andrea Osgood of Eden Housing, Carlos Castellanos of Alta Housing, and Kate Comfort-Harr of HIP Housing will be providing their “two cents.” Avoid being a “day late and a dollar short” by clicking registering below: |
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| URGENT: Protect Residents' Rights, Opportunities, and Affordability at Palo Mobile Estates The Friends of Palo Mobile Estates, are working with Palo Mobile Estates residents to ensure that current residents are aware of their rights and opportunities, and can exercise them. They are working to guarantee long-term affordability so that working wage earners and households on fixed incomes are not eventually priced out. You can read the full letter to Christina Park, California Department of Real Estate from the Friends of Palo Mobile Estates below. |
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| TODAY! Send a written comment of support for 71 affordable homes! |
|  | Do you have 5 minutes to support 71 affordable homes? Well today is the LAST day to send a written letter of support for Cypress Point! Midpen’s Cypress Point will be an affordable housing development in Moss Beach. It is critical to have more affordable homes in the region, especially on the coast where there are significant low paying jobs and inland communities (like San Mateo) are just as, if not more, expensive.
When and Where: It will be in front of the California Coastal Commission on March 12th at 9am. It will be item 14 under “Local Coastal Programs”. This is a critical step to moving these homes forward. Speakers must submit a “speaker card” by 8:30am the morning of the hearing. |
| How you can help and take action - Submit a written comment! If click on the Friday Agenda, scroll down to item 14 and click the blue “Submit Comment” you can submit a comment of support! What the Coastal Commission is actually approving is a little complex, but “supporting changes to the Local Coastal Program” is critical to unlocking potential affordable homes! Although we could really use some public speakers we understand not everyone is available to wait till the item comes up. Comments must be submitted before the end of TODAY, March 5th to be received by the Commission.
- Forward this newsletter to a friend! You can also make a greater impact with less than a minute! If you could share this email with just 1 friend, asking them to take action, you will be doubling YOUR impact!
Connect with us! For any reason really. However, if you have any questions about the finer details, if you need help with what to write and if you let us know you sent a supportive email (very helpful to us), we’d love to know! |
| Will you help support the creation of these 71 affordable homes? There are currently no deed-restricted affordable homes in this area, but we know there is a great and urgent need for these homes. Your efforts can help address that need. |
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| Hallmark House Apartments: Opening Summer of 2021! | Apertura Verano de 2021! Hallmark House Apartments in Redwood City is opening in Summer 2021. They are now accepting applications. Please see below for application instructions. |
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| | 🎤 Call for Speakers & Moderators for
Silicon Valley Bike Coalition's Summit 2021 🚲 |
| We know some of you housers also love bicycle-pedestrian-transportation topics! So do we! Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition is soliciting proposals for the 11th Annual SVBC Bike Summit. The Bike Summit is a fun-interactive-engaging opportunity intended to educate the community on key issues related to bicycling. It brings together over 250 Bay Area citizen activists, city and county staff, elected officials, business representatives, consultants, non-profit workers, Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee members, and others working in transportation. Summit 2021 will be held in the month of August. If you would like to present or coordinate a session at the Bike Summit, please fill out this form by March 26, 2021. Check out more information here. |
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| |  | Menlo Together Our partners at Menlo Together are looking to hire a part-time Organizer to help attain their vision of a city (Menlo Park) that is integrated and diverse, multi-generational, and environmentally sustainable. Application review will begin on Saturday, March 6. Resumes submitted after that date will still be considered. Please submit a cover letter and resume to resumes@menlotogether.org. For any questions, please contact Ken at kchan@menlotogether.org. |
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 | YIMBY Action Another one of our partners in housing, YIMBY Action, is hiring a full time Chapter Organizer to coordinate, train, and grow the YIMBY movement across its 15 chapters. The Chapter Organizer will be responsible for implementing organizing best practices into the dynamic and growing YIMBY community. We invite newsletter subscribers hoping to dedicate their career to housing activism to apply for this opportunity. The deadline to send applications is this Sunday, March 7. |
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2905 S El Camino Real | San Mateo, California 94403
650-242-1764 | info@hlcsmc.org |
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| Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County
2905 S El Camino Real | San Mateo, California 94403
650-242-1764 | info@hlcsmc.org |
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