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Housing Trust Silicon Valley Launches TECH Fund Campaign

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Housing Trust Silicon Valley has launched the new TECH Fund campaign that will allow local corporations and foundations to invest in affordable housing developments that will add or preserve 10,000 homes in the region over the next 10 years.

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Loan in Livermore Helps Fund Homes for People with Special Needs

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Housing Trust is providing a predevelopment loan in the amount of $500,000 to MidPen Housing for Sunflower Hill, a 45-apartment community in Livermore serving individuals with developmental disabilities. Sunflower Hill was formed as a nonprofit in 2012 by families of children with special needs to develop 45 apartments of affordable housing for adults with developmental…

Villas on the Park

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Villas on the Park Coming to Downtown San Jose

Villas on the Park

Housing Trust is providing a $1 million pre-development loan for Villas on the Park, an 83-apartment complex on Second Street in downtown San Jose. The plan includes 78 apartments for permanent supportive housing and five apartments for interim housing for up to 20 residents — all for individuals who have incomes below 35% of area…

Fuji Towers

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Fuji Towers Apartments

Fuji Towers

Housing Trust Silicon Valley is providing a pre-development loan in the amount of $500,000 to Fuji Towers, a HUD-financed 140 apartment senior housing development in the Japantown neighborhood of San Jose. Fuji Towers opened 40 years ago to house low-income Japanese-American residents. The resident population has diversified over the years, but remains a vibrant and close…

Atherton Court Apartments in Redwood City

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Atherton Court Apartments – MidPen Housing

Atherton Court Apartments in Redwood City

Housing Trust Silicon Valley is providing a loan in the amount of $11.2m to MidPen Housing Corporation for acquisition of the 55-unit Atherton Court Apartments.  If it weren’t for MidPen’s purchase of Atherton Court, the apartments could have been sold to a market-rate developer, putting existing low-income tenants at risk of massive rent increases and displacement. As…

Loan Helps Visionary Home Builders Create New Housing in Stockton

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Loan Helps Visionary Home Builders Create New Housing in Stockton

Loan Helps Visionary Home Builders Create New Housing in Stockton

Visionary Home Builders of California are receiving Housing Trust’s first loan in the city of Stockton. The $472,500 loan will go toward helping Visionary buy undeveloped lots in a subdivision that was left incomplete by the recession. The intention is to build 21 new homes to be sold to first-time home buyers making no more than…

New Investments by Local Banks Double Capacity of Affordable Housing Loan Pool

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New Investments by Local Banks Double Capacity of Affordable Housing Loan Pool

New Investments by Local Banks Double Capacity of Affordable Housing Loan Pool

A second round of funding from local banks is adding $6.3 million to the Housing Trust Silicon Valley 2015 Loan Pool that will help affordable housing developers expand multifamily housing opportunities in the Silicon Valley/Bay Area region. The initial 2015 Loan Pool was launched in 2015 with $7.8 million and has been used for financing…

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BAREC Site Development – Core Affordable Housing

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Core Affordable Housing will be building 359 units on the BAREC site in Santa Clara. HTSV is lending $2,250,000 to Core to prepare the site for development of a project dubbed Agrihood. The site is the former University of California Bay Area Research and Extension Center (BAREC), and was used for agricultural research. BAREC will be a…