Dwellings

To learn more about Affordable Housing Financing, please visit our website at www.sjhousing.org.

Bond Funding

Inclusionary rental compliance

Developer Fees and Charges

Learn about Rent Stabilization

Commercial Linkage Fee

Requirements for City Funding

SOMOS Mayfair – their mission is to support children, organize families, and connect neighbors to uplift the dreams, power, and leadership of the community and address systemic inequities.

To learn more about Project Homekey, please visit the State website at https://www.hcd.ca.gov. 

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) - CEQA requires public agencies to “look before they leap” and consider the environmental consequences of their discretionary actions. CEQA is intended to inform government decision-makers and the public about the potential environmental effects of proposed activities and to prevent significant, avoidable environmental damage.
If you are just beginning to learn about CEQA, visit their Getting Started page.

Continuum of Care (COC)

Santa Clara County Community Plan to End Homelessness 2020-2025

Jamboree Housing

Lifemoves

Notice of Funding Availability

To learn more about the City’s Apartment Rent ordinance and other housing ordinances, visit our website at www.sjhousing.org. 

• San José Ordinances
• Learn about Rent Stabilization
• Learn about the Rent Registry
• Understanding Eviction Procedures 13 Just Causes

To learn more about the Bill Wilson Center, visit https://www.billwilsoncenter.org.

John Burton Advocates For You

Rapid Rehousing

Runaway Homeless Youth Act

United States Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)

Youth Homelessness Demonstration grant

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws.

Handbook for HUD - Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Transitional Housing Program - provides funding to counties for child welfare services agencies to help young adults aged 18 to 24 years find and maintain housing, with priority given to those formerly in the foster care or probation systems.  

Point-in-Time(PIT) - count is an annual effort led by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to estimate the number of Americans, including Veterans, without safe, stable housing.

To learn more about the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, please visit https://www.svlg.org. 

Terms and topics discussed:

• Regional Housing Needs Assessment(RHNA)
• The National Association of Realtors shortage tracker
• L.A. Times Article
• FactoryOS
• Measure E
• Bill AB 2234
• Deed-restricted affordable housing - refers to housing units, such as apartments, that have a use restriction that limits the rent or purchase price and requires occupancy by low-income households for a set period of time. Without deed restrictions, affordable housing can rise with the market, pricing out residents.
• Joint Powers Authorities(JPA) - a term used to describe government agencies that have agreed to combine their powers and resources to work on common problems.

Read Elijah's Working Paper: https://www.elijahdelacampa.com/research

To learn more about the City's ADU program, please visit the ADU program website.

Visit the Mayor's website at SJBackyardHomes.com

In the state of California, developers are required to build a certain number of apartments and housing units following ADA accessibility requirements. But do those requirements actually make a difference? Is there more that can be done? On this episode, we sit down with Allie Cannington, Manager of Advocacy and Organizing for The Kelsey, and Jacky Morales-Ferrand, Director of the Housing Department, to learn about building inclusive housing for people with (and without) disabilities.

To learn more about The Kelsey and the work they're doing on building affordable, inclusive housing, please visit their website.

Review the Kelsey's Housing Design Standards for Accessibility and Inclusion

Learn more about the Curb-Cut Effect from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Priced Out (Technical Assistance Collaborative)

Learn more about the various local funding mechanisms for affordable housing:

• Measure A (Santa Clara County)
• Measure E (San José)
• Commercial Linkage Fee (San José)
• Inclusionary Housing Fees (San José)

To learn more about the City's Housing Element process and review past Housing Element plans, please visit the Housing Element Update webpage.

To learn more about the Housing Element process in other cities in Santa Clara County, please visit LetsTalkHousingSCC.org.

Jargon glossary:

• Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA): Identifies the total number of housing units for a region, separated into four affordability levels.
• Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG): Regional planning agency for the nine-county Bay Area of California.
• Assessment of Fair Housing: In-depth analysis of residential segregation and access to opportunity. State law AB 686 (2018) requires all cities and towns in California include an Assessment of Fair Housing as part of their Housing Element updates. Learn more about the City's draft Assessment of Fair Housing in a recent June 2021 memo.

To learn more about opportunity housing, please visit the Planning Department's Opportunity Housing webpage.