|  | | 📣CA Housing Accelerator: Priority budget to address the Bay Area’s housing needs📣 HLC is joining housing organizations throughout the state, including our close partner Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), in asking California’s Senate and Assembly Budget Chairs, Hon. Nancy Skinner and Hon. Phil Ting, to address the Bay Area’s housing needs in the May budget revision. Act today! Join us in asking the state legislature to support affordable homes: Urge Your Representative to Prioritize Affordable Housing! (salsalabs.org) |
| | The Governor announced that the state has a $97 billion-dollar projected surplus – up over $50 billion dollars from January’s projected surplus of $45.7 billion. Of the $97 billion surplus, $49.2 billion is marked for discretionary use. This historic state budget mirrors a corresponding reality: The economy has created massive growth for few wealthy individuals, while too many Californians continue to struggle with homelessness and the high cost of living. With the state possessing a nearly $100 billion surplus, we firmly believe that the overall proposed $2.5 billion investment in affordable housing and homelessness solutions is a missed opportunity to put people and communities first and to respond, at scale, to the state’s affordable housing needs. In coalition with housing allies, HLC and NPH are requesting the budget to allocate: |
| - $5 billion in aggregate for the Multifamily Housing Program and the California Housing Accelerator Program. These budget allocations would invest in the next wave of state affordable housing projects and allow projects that already received partial funding to move to construction.
- $500 million for a permanent extension of the state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). The state LIHTC are critical to development in California, especially considering the oversubscription of federal tax credits. This will help our members plan for development in the long-term and support California’s affordable housing production program.
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| The people of California need ongoing affordable housing investments, at scale, that can address displacement, homelessness, and the severe lack of affordable housing opportunities. What Can You Do? Help HLC spread the word about the need for funding. By contacting your State Legislature today! Click HERE to find your representative and call or email them today! |
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| | Want to get more involved and learn more? Contact our Executive Director, Evelyn Stivers estivers@hlcsmc.org |
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| | 📅Affordable Housing Month Event📅 ✧HEART’s Annual Networking Event is back!✧  Join us at Devil's Canyon to recognize Supervisor Don Horsley's achievements in affordable housing at HEART's Annual Networking event. Beer, wine, and food trucks are complimentary with ticket purchase! Space is limited. Complimentary tickets for elected and city/county staff. |
| | This session is part of a series of events during Affordable Housing Month. Check out more events below: |
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| | ✧How was your Affordable Housing Month?✧ We want to hear from you! Fill out this short survey (< 1 minute): |
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| | New Affordable Homes for JUHSD staff🎉 ✧"122 school district staff of the Jefferson Union High School District (JUHSD) will call Daly City their home!"✧
 The JUHSD held their ribbon cutting ceremony for the 122-unit Affordable Housing complex. These affordable homes are planned to house JUHSD staff, which encompasses four comprehensive high schools serving 4,000 students. The goal is to create a walkable, bikeable, safe, family-friendly neighborhood with a shopping street, parks, and nature trails that will also be a source of revenue for the district. Click here for more info. Together we can: - Build much-needed homes, including a 1.8 acre site for deeply affordable homes.
- Open a free preschool for low-income families in the community through Head Start
- Double the amount of green space, including a new ADA accessible community garden.
- Raise much-needed revenue for the district without raising taxes.
- Ensure that the JUHSD stays a high-achieving district, which will help increase community property values.
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| |  Housing Elements Review Menlo Park and Woodside released their draft housing elements last week! Meanwhile, Colma’s public comment period ends May 28, and comments are due for Foster City on June 3. Yesterday, HLC sent a letter to Foster City outlining what we think their draft HE does well–such as its comprehensive analysis of each site–as well as where we think there’s room for improvement. We have more feedback in store for Colma, Menlo Park, and Woodside later in the month. HLC wants to help you comment on your city’s housing element. One of our favorite tools is the Housing Element Best Practices: Lessons from Previous Cycles guide from our partners at MidPen Housing. As one of the Bay Area’s largest affordable housing developers, MidPen has built approximately 8,500 homes across more than 100 projects over 50+ years. The “Lessons from Previous Housing Elements” guide proposes nine concrete policies that cities can implement to make affordable housing easier to build. The guide presents specific case studies of projects MidPenn has built that were made possible because of policies implemented by cities through their housing element.
HLC recommends that you reference MidPen’s policy proposals in letters to your city. The case studies provide vivid examples of how specific policies have made affordable housing development possible. Several cities in San Mateo County get a shoutout, including Half Moon Bay, Foster City, and Menlo Park. HLC applauds these cities’ efforts to facilitate affordable housing. We hope jurisdictions throughout San Mateo County will follow best practices from each other and across the greater Bay Area, making affordable housing easier to create in myriad ways. |
| | Opportunities to support affordable housing across San Mateo County: |
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| | 📊San Mateo County Housing Needs Report 2022📊  This data shows where we are today. But it doesn’t show where we have to be. To create strong, healthy communities for anyone, we need strong, healthy communities for everyone. “We need local leaders to support the state and federal efforts, especially for extremely low-income homes. We need additional funding, great sites appropriately zoned, and policies to help keep families in their homes,” says Evelyn Stivers, Executive Director of Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County. View the full San Mateo County report and our Local Policy Recommendations. |
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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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