Phillip and Marjorie - with their dog Sasha - at home at Edwina Benner Plaza in Sunnyvale

Success Stories, Updates

Meet Phillip and Marjorie

Phillip and Marjorie - with their dog Sasha - at home at Edwina Benner Plaza in Sunnyvale

Edwina Benner Plaza has 66 homes – and we’d like you to meet a family from one of them: Phillip and Marjorie, who have spent more than thirty years living in the Bay Area.

Orchard Gardens Rendering

Updates

TECH Fund at Work: FCH Receives $6.7M Loan for Sunnyvale Homes

Orchard Gardens Rendering

First Community Housing, which was just recognized as an Outstanding Developer by the U.S. Green Building Council for its ongoing efforts to create buildings with sustainability in mind, received a $6.7 million loan to revamp and expand a property in Sunnyvale – which is also the home of the recently opened MidPen development Edwina Benner Plaza. Near transportation…

Edwina Benner Plaza in Sunnyvale

Updates

Edwina Benner Plaza Becomes a Home in Sunnyvale

Edwina Benner Plaza in Sunnyvale

During Affordable Housing Week we celebrated the grand opening of Edwina Benner Plaza with MidPen Housing and their partners. The development got its name after California’s first female mayor, Edwina Benner, who served as mayor of Sunnyvale from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1937 to 1938.

Ruby Street Apartments rendering

Newly Funded, Updates

In Alameda County: 72 Affordable Homes for Castro Valley

Ruby Street Apartments rendering

Housing Trust has made a $4.6 million loan to Eden Housing for Ruby Street Apartments. As our 8th loan in Alameda County in the last six years, this Castro Valley loan continues Housing Trust’s regional expansion and brings the total number of affordable homes Housing Trust has helped finance there past 500.

Markham Plaza

Newly Funded

350 Affordable Homes Preserved in San Jose

Markham Plaza

While Housing Trust is proud to share the news of affordable housing that is going to be built from the ground up we’re equally excited to engage with borrowers to preserve the affordable homes we already have. Core Companies’ Markham Plaza – a 153 home, four story rental complex just a few miles south of…