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SV@Home's 11/17 Housing Happenings Newsletter: Join PIA Tomorrow, Happy Housers RSVP and More - SV@Home   Housing Happenings   Join Us for Tomorrow’s Policy In Action Explore San José Affordable Housing Siting Policy SV@Home and members of the Race Equity Action Leadership (REAL) Coalition’s Housing Justice Workgroup will explore the City of San José Affordable Housing Siting Policy, a...

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in the November 8th Election!

Register, pre-register, or update your voter registration here:
https://registertovote.ca.gov

TOMORROW Oct 22, 10 a.m.,1399 Santee Dr., San Jose, Excited for the Together We Vote Block Party! Show Up - and please come see us at our booth. Food, music, kids' zone, and help voters get registered for Nov. 8th Election! Together our voices are stronger. SVH - Action Fund Housing Action Coalition Silicon Valley Community Foundation

📣GILROY REMINDER📣
We're co-hosting the Gilroy City Council Candidate Forum tomorrow!
Details:
- Friday, 9/29, 6pm
- At the Neon Exchange, 7365 Monterey Street
- Free
- Live Spanish Interpretation
- No registration required, though seating may be limited

CONGRATULATIONS to all those who supported these laws especially advocates in San Jose. These essential tools will dramatically help those neighborhoods struggling with displacement. Somos Mayfair Silicon Valley at Home Destination: Home Law Foundation of Silicon Valley City of San José Housing Department and more!

California to Build More Housing, Faster | California Governor Legislation signed today will create much-needed new housing units aimed at helping middle and low income Californians and create thousands of good paying jobs SAN FRANCISCO – Building on California’s…

Check out the video from our Palo Alto City Council Candidate Forum on Housing (and related topics)!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1NgL9UsyX6Q

What do you think of what the candidates had to say?

6:00 PM TONIGHT: Palo Alto City Council Candidate Forum! Register for free! https://bit.ly/PAHousingForum2022

We're hosting this event in partnership with Palo Alto Forward, Palo Alto Renters Association, Destination: Home, Housing Choices Greenbelt Alliance, San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP, & Silicon Valley Community Foundation!

Live Mandarin and Spanish interpretation will be available.

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*TONIGHT* Check out this Sunnyvale City Council Candidate Forum hosted by our friends at Livable Sunnyvale!

Register here: http://www.livablesunnyvale.org/2022/08/17/special-event-candidate-forum-for-sunnyvale-city-council-candidates/

Our city council candidate forum is on Wednesday 9/7 at 6:30 pm. Register at livablesunnyvale.org. See you then!

📣We're so excited to announce one of our priority housing bills, AB 2011 — by Assembly Housing Chair Buffy Wicks — just passed the Legislature! This bill will make it easier to convert old parking lots and underused commercial space into homes. This is a great way to add housing and jobs through infill development that protects open space and adds vibrancy to our cities.

Thank you Senator Dave Cortese and Senator Bob Wieckowski for voting YES on AB 2011!

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Big announcement! We're hosting a Palo Alto City Council Candidate Forum along with Palo Alto Forward & Palo Alto Renters Association, focused on housing issues!
Free registration for this online forum here: https://bit.ly/PAHousingForum2022

We'll also provide live Mandarin & Spanish language interpretation during the forum.

Hope to see you there!

Contact your State Senator *right now* to tell them you support AB 2011 making it easier to convert idle commercial properties into desperately needed housing. They're voting on it very soon!
https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

"Over the last two years, the shift to remote work and online shopping has increased the stock of empty office and retail properties. AB 2011 allows us to reimagine underutilized commercial land, so we can create hundreds of thousands of homes in environmentally friendly locations that don’t encroach on natural and working lands."
- Amanda Brown Stevens (Greenbelt Alliance) & Dan Silver (Endangered Habitats League).

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/08/converting-idle-commercial-land-would-ease-states-housing-and-climate-crises/

Converting idle commercial land would ease state’s housing and climate crises Assembly Bill 2011 would streamline approvals to convert empty strip malls, office parks and parking lots into affordable and mixed-income housing, concentrating development in order to build resilient communities and protect our planet.