Dear Partners, Our entire team is jolted and saddened by the violent and unjust killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others. We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement – just as we stand with our black employees, board members, partners, residents, community members – and implore our neighbors to…
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Affordable Housing Month 2020: Housing Trust’s Events May 18 – 21
May 15, 2020
Housing Trust had their first Empower Homebuyers SCC webinar on May 7th and the next is coming next week, which will feature a full lineup of virtual events we hope you can attend: Monday, May 18th, 10:30am – Part one of Small Homes, Big Impact’s ADU webinar series Register for Part 1 of the ADU…
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Affordable Housing and Leadership: Our Friends at Resources for Community Development
May 14, 2020
We’re inspired by all of our development partners and proud to stand with them all – and Resources for Community Development is just one example of the organizations that do great work and inspire us to do even better with our own. One of our very first acquisition loans was made to RCD – $1.1…
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New Housing Trust ADU page, An ADU Webinar, and New Legislation Could Make Building Your Accessory Dwelling Unit Easier
May 13, 2020
Housing Trust’s Accessory Dwelling Unit program, Small Homes, Big Impact, is proud to take part in Affordable Housing Month and aims to get Bay Area homeowners up to speed on new resources and developments pertaining to the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). For instance, as of January 1, 2020, the State of California unveiled…
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Beyond Affordable Housing Month: Non-Profit Housing Association Leading Long Term
May 4, 2020
Affordable Housing Month is a big effort engaged in by a lot of committed partners, and we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. If the last few months have taught us anything it is that a definitive and timely response to a crisis can make a huge difference…
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Affordable Housing Month Kicks off May 1
April 24, 2020
Yesterday, the same day our Homeownership Team had their first Empower Homebuyers SCC webinar, Sonya Singha, a member of our ADU team, took part in an online panel discussion of financing an ADU. Both are just a warm-up for the growing list of coming events in May as SV@Home opens Affordable Housing Month. The theme…
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SVLG Regional Economic Forum on May 1
April 24, 2020
Next Friday, May 1, our friends at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group are hosting Regional Economic Forum: In the COVID-19 Era. It’s the first time as a virtual event and our own Kevin Zwick will be on the Housing and Homelessness panel and our Chief Lending Officer Fathia Macauley will be on the virtual stage…
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A Smile for Eden Housing and Volunteering
April 24, 2020
When COVID-19 is behind us we will all commit to things that were postponed in the wake of the Shelter in Place. For many of us it is a long list – and for our organization we will happily present Linda Mandolini, President of Eden Housing, with the Housing Champion Award. We have been checking…
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Homeownership at Work: First Empower Webinar Takes Shape
April 24, 2020
Since the Shelter in Place order began, the Homeownership team closed two loans for Empower Homebuyers SCC – the Measure A funded down payment assistance program created by the County of Santa Clara and administered by us. One of the loans went to a Cupertino teacher named Dmitry and the other for Katie and Carlos’…
Newly Funded, Updates
More Multifamily Lending – and More to Come
April 24, 2020
Today we are happy to report continued strides in our lending thanks to funding from a host of wonderful supporters – including our TECH Fund investors, Supportive Housing Fund partner County of Santa Clara, all of our banking and philanthropic partners, and the County of Santa Clara’s Measure A. Our Multifamily Lending Team has…