Our partnership with Google for the Evelyn Avenue affordable housing development in Mountain View received coverage in the media outlets below. San Jose Mercury News – March 3, 2022 Mountain View affordable homes project pushes ahead with property deal A big affordable housing development in Mountain View is pushing ahead after a property purchase of…
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Mukhtar Barna Joins Housing Trust as Senior Fund Accountant
March 7, 2022
Housing Trust Silicon Valley warmly welcomes Mukhtar Barna, who joins us as Senior Fund Accountant. His responsibilities will include guiding the growth of a fund we are managing on behalf of a large tech company, as well as contributing to Housing Trust’s accounting, analysis, and reporting. Mukhtar speaks six languages. He was the recipient of…
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Prathit Thaker Joins Housing Trust as Chief Credit Officer
February 2, 2022
Housing Trust Silicon Valley warmly welcomes Prathit Thaker, who joins us as Chief Credit Officer. His responsibilities will include leading the credit, risk management, loan administration, asset management, and compliance functions. Prathit is a seasoned executive with 25+ years of depth and breadth of credit risk management, commercial real estate finance and debt capital markets…
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Nazmin Bishop joins Housing Trust as Chief Development & Communications Officer
December 7, 2021
Today, Housing Trust Silicon Valley welcomes Nazmin Bishop, who joins us as Chief Development and Communications Officer. Nazmin is a Bay Area native who has always loved the richness of the cultural diversity and the innovation and forward thinking of the region. She has been in the fields of Business Development, Marketing, and Communications most…
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Santa Clara County’s Down Payment Assistance Program Makes Buyer-Friendly Changes
December 1, 2021
Many renters in the Bay Area think it would never be possible to come up with a down payment to buy a home. With a down payment assistance loan of up to 17% through Empower Homebuyers SCC – a program funded through Santa Clara County’s Measure A – first-time homeownership is possible, and we’re reminded…
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Katie Ferrick, Ahmad Thomas join Housing Trust’s Board of Directors
October 21, 2021
Housing Trust is proud to announce LinkedIn’s Katie Ferrick and Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Ahmad Thomas have joined our Board of Directors. Katie Ferrick is the Senior Director of Community Development, Sustainability, and Workplace Programs at LinkedIn. In 2019, she was named Housing Champion by Housing Trust Silicon Valley for her work in bringing LinkedIn…
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Representation & Leadership: Coffee and Chat w/ Hilda Ramirez
September 17, 2021
We just had another one of our ‘Representation and Leadership’ coffee & chat meetings. It’s a regularly scheduled event we have as part of our ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion work and just a good chance for our still-mostly-virtual teams to get together over Zoom. This time we met with Hilda Ramirez, CEO of Keller…
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We’re Hiring! Chief Development & Communications Officer
September 10, 2021
Housing Trust Silicon Valley has always been a place where public and private resources come together in creative ways to support housing opportunities for all our neighbors – from those experiencing homelessness to renters to first-time homebuyers. To date, we have invested over $335 million to create more than 20,105 homes in the greater Bay…
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Breaking Ground with PATH in San Jose
August 23, 2021
This morning we got to see our friends from PATH and attend the groundbreaking celebration of Villas at Fourth Street in San Jose – a project that will bring 93 affordable homes for chronically homeless seniors age 55 and above. Two key collaborations brought us to today: Google, which first invested in our TECH Fund…
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A Grand Opening for MidPen’s Chestnut Square in Livermore
August 20, 2021
In 2017, Housing Trust provided a $2 million pre-development loan to MidPen for Chestnut Square, an affordable housing development in Livermore. Friday, August 20, 2021 was the grand opening – and our own Noni Ramos was among the speakers, along with Mayor Bob Woerner of Livermore, County Supervisor David Haubert, MidPen’s Matt Franklin, and others….