SPECIAL REPORT – Silicon Valley’s Cost of Living Crisis
Peninsula Press examines how housing shortages and development priorities are creating clashes across Silicon Valley.
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Santa Clara residents express mixed views on affordable housing project
A vacant six-acre plot of land near Midtown Village may be transformed into a destination for seniors searching for affordable housing and a space to grow their own food.
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Mountain View Tenants Coalition demands rent moratorium
A coalition of Mountain View residents is pushing the city council to freeze rents at a time when soaring housing costs are threatening to displace more tenants.
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‘We’re you’: What it’s like to be homeless in Silicon Valley
When most people leave work, they hop in their car and look forward to resting in a bed for the night. For Chuck Jagoda, the very car he uses in his commute is his nightly shelter.
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In Silicon Valley, it’s good to be Airbnb — for now
Across the Peninsula, most cities’ local laws don’t address how to deal with Airbnb and other short-term rental companies. But that might change with the upcoming 2016 Super Bowl.
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Renters struggle to keep up in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood
Silicon Valley’s tech boom is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.
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California’s affordable mobile home parks vanishing
As affordable housing for middle- and lower-income families is drying up by the month in California, among the hardest hit are those living in mobile home parks.
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Local officials taking steps to help Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents
Residents of Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park have won three small victories that may allow them to stay in their homes or receive adequate compensation if they have to relocate.
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A housing crisis that stretches from north to south
With skyrocketing rent in the region, low-income residents are struggling to find affordable housing in San Mateo County.
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Santa Clara County’s homeless hope for hotel rooms after shelter closes
Even with its enormous wealth per capita, Santa Clara County had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year.
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Shootings vanish as Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood transforms
A new community garden. Facebook’s second campus. The drop in violent crime points to a public safety shift that’s characterizing a vast transformation of Menlo Park’s historically most-dangerous neighborhood.
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SPECIAL REPORT – Living in Silicon Valley: Profiles of communities in transition
Profiles of Silicon Valley communities in transition, from transformations in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood to the unsheltered homeless in Santa Clara County to North Fair Oaks’ revitalization efforts.
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