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San Jose mayoral candidate Matt Mahan met with Stanford student journalists

San Jose mayor candidate Mahan calls for state support to tackle housing crisis

News, Politics / By Peninsula Press Team

City councilmember and mayoral candidate Matt Mahan said the state isn’t doing enough to support San Jose’s response to the housing crisis. “The state is not providing cities with a whole lot of funding for housing,” he said. “We don’t have anything close to the sources of affordable housing funds to meet those targets.” In […]

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Tents and belongings along the banks of the San Lorenzo River, a popular location for Santa Cruz’s homeless to find shelter. (Daniel Wu / Peninsula Press)

Coronavirus and winter make it harder to solve Santa Cruz’s homelessness problems

covid-19, Housing + Development, Social Services / By Daniel Wu

Santa Cruz, a beach town that promotes a legacy of tolerance — “Keep Santa Cruz Weird” is the slogan on T-shirts — hasn’t been able to solve a persistent problem with homelessness. As city officials, nonprofits and activists struggle for answers, the onset of winter poses even more threat to those who find shelter in the open. Looming over everything this year is a resurgent coronavirus.

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Facing Budget Cuts, Kansas City Police Department May End Social Worker Program

Crime, police, Social Services / By Elizabeth Gerson

The Kansas City Police Department’s Social Services Program, which stations a social worker at all six patrol divisions across the city, faces possible discontinuation as the department adjusts to a $26 million budget cut for fiscal year 2021-22.

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Redwood City's Ian Bain at a holiday parade in the city's downtown.

Outgoing Redwood City mayor reflects on region’s housing crunch

Housing + Development, News / By Amy DiPierro

REDWOOD CITY — Redwood City has not been immune to California’s housing crunch. Councilmember Ian Bain, who passed the mayoral title to Diane Howard on Dec. 9 after finishing a two-year term as the city’s top government official, doesn’t have to imagine what it’s like to have trouble affording Bay Area housing.

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The battle for the Redwood City salt ponds

Environment, Housing + Development / By Matthew Vollrath

REDWOOD CITY — For the past decade, a 1,400-acre salt property in Redwood City has been a community battleground.

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Tenants, faith leaders and tenants rights advocates gather in city hall in Redwood City, Calif.

Redwood City approves rent cap, just-cause eviction protections

Housing + Development, News / By Amy DiPierro

REDWOOD CITY — Redwood City officials approved an urgency ordinance capping rent increases and setting new requirements for just-cause evictions, joining a small group of California cities to pass similar emergency measures as tenants wait for statewide protections that take effect in 2020.

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Housing crisis, fear complicates census efforts in the Bay Area

Housing + Development, News, Politics / By Isabella Jibilian

Bay Area counties and non-profit organizations are preparing for the 2020 Census by canvassing neighborhoods to make address lists more complete and recruiting “trusted messengers” like priests and community organizers to encourage hard-to-count populations to respond to the census.

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A peek inside recreational vehicle communities in the Bay Area

Housing + Development, News / By Maria Popo, Elisa Lupin-Jimenez, Jenny Kim

Ad hoc communities comprised of transient recreational vehicles continue to grow in the Bay Area.

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200-ton historic house finds new home across San Jose State campus

Housing + Development, News / By Melanie Hogue, Isabella Jibilian

SAN JOSE – The relocation effort drew spectators. Everyone from former students to retired staff waited from behind caution tape as the house was towed — squeezing between trees and rolling over lawns.

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A major debate in Palo Alto is whether to allow denser housing should be built. Proponents say it could alleviate the shortage of homes.

Palo Alto to narrow field of Planning Commission contenders

Housing + Development, News / By Fabienne Meijer

PALO ALTO — Much of the public’s focus is on the Nov. 6 midterm elections. But there’s one vote that Palo Altans can’t participate in, but it may be just as important – which two candidates will the City Council choose for the city’s influential Planning and Transportation Commission.

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Community members gather at the Ventura Neighborhood Association to talk about Wilton Court

Proposed affordable housing project in Palo Alto hits resistance

Housing + Development / By Fabienne Meijer

PALO ALTO — Residents of Palo Alto’s Ventura neighborhood say a new affordable housing project under consideration by the city will cause parking problems and traffic congestion and are negotiating with the developer to scale it back.

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Mountain View residents push back against proposed housing developments on Rock Street

Housing + Development, News / By Melanie Hogue, Connor Richards

Residents of two Mountain View apartment complexes that developers are looking to replace with luxury housing say they won’t be able to stay in the city if they’re forced out of their homes. Tenants of 2005 and 2310 Rock St. say the relocation assistance that the developer offered them — an equivalent of three months

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