More than 100 recreational vehicles housing families may be displaced when new parking laws come into force in Lake Merced, San Francisco on Dec. 3. Advocates fear that the proposed four-hour weekday parking restrictions will separate a tight-knit community of Spanish and Portuguese speaking families from the west side neighborhood, with no viable alternatives on the table.
After over four years of negotiations and legal challenges, Superintendent Dr. Don Austin said that the biggest hurdle in approving the project has been securing land in Palo Alto, which is notoriously limited.
Caitlin Quinn loves Pacifica for its strong local community and how neighbors know each other. The small, colorful houses in the coastal city’s West Sharp Park neighborhood are built close to each other and at the end of the street you can see the ocean. However, Quinn thinks that her once familiar neighborhood has changed …
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Fueled by $26.6 million in state funding, the City of Palo Alto and partner organization LifeMoves are charging ahead with their plans for project HomeKey Palo Alto – a large, first-of-its-kind transitional housing site for the city. In a press release, the city said the new HomeKey development will provide “a dignified transitional step for …
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Peninsula Press · Peninsula Healthcare Connection – a lifeline for growing homeless communities, looking to expand California’s homeless population saw an estimated increase of 22,500 people over the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC reports that people experiencing homelessness are placed at an increased risk of infectious diseases and also often experience mental illnesses such as anxiety, …
Palo Alto City Councilmember Greer Stone called the $2 billion for housing investments in the 2022-23 California state budget “absurd,” after receiving updates about the 2022 Legislative Session from the city’s Federal and State Legislative advocates at the monthly Policy and Services Committee meeting Oct. 11. In July, California adopted a $307.9 billion budget. “Far …
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Muhammad T. Alameldin’s three-month ordeal into homelessness while being a student at UC Berkeley would test his character, sharpen his academic focus and point him toward a career helping other people find homes they can afford.
Annette Rodrigo’s story shows how a network of shelters, case managers and housing providers can eventually come together to move some of the thousands of people experiencing homelessness in Santa Clara County off the streets— if they can make it through all the obstacles, and the waiting, to get there — and how much of a difference having a roof can make.
With an estimated 150,000 homeless Californians and another 700,000 facing evictions, the state’s homelessness crisis is worsening and the need for safe shelter growing.
At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, overcrowded dwellings turned into COVID-19 clusters, hitting agricultural workers disproportionately hard.
In a wide-ranging interview, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo discussed the city’s struggle to meet its housing construction goals, suggested replacing the VTA’s light rail system with a fleet of electric buses and urged the state to allow the pumping of purified recycled water back into the system amid persistent droughts.
Mountain View’s city council voted 6-1 to extend rent control to the city’s mobile home parks.
