Santa Clara County Housing Digest

It's now easier and faster to launch a small business or build a home in Mountain View.

A 174-unit affordable apartment project is being proposed for downtown San Jose on an empty parcel on The Alameda.

A look at the three-story 204-unit transitional housing built on what was once a homeless encampment hotspot in San Jose's Branham Lane and Monterey Road neighborhood.

A handful of legislators rallied near the state Capitol Thursday to promote what they’re calling an “extremely unsexy,” but important, bipartisan bill package intended to put California’s housing development into overdrive.

In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown.

In their March 25 meeting, the Santa Clara City Council approved the 1,792-unit Santa Clara Park housing project.

The first all-affordable housing development in Los Altos is set to break ground and begin construction this summer.

Seeking to restrict growth, Los Altos Hills is exploring amendments to its housing element.

In their March 20 meeting, the Mountain View Whisman school board approved $29 million for the purchase of the land upon which it built its 144-unit teacher housing project. Read on for details.

Read on for more information about the proposed CityView project to build a housing highrise, new retail, and reconfigure an office building in downtown San Jose.

Read on to learn more about a fee waiver incentive program being applied to a large multifamily project underway near Penitencia Creelk in San Jose.

Read on for details about the proposal to build housing adjacent to data centers in branded as a transformation of downtown San Jose into a "green energy hub."

A $5 billion pot of federal money set aside to help people on the verge of homelessness pay the rent is running out of cash — and no one has a plan to keep the roughly 60,000 renters, more than 15,000 of them in California — from losing their housing after the last dollar is spent.

The City of Mountain View is considering options for building multifamily affordable housing on parcels south of El Camino Real. Read on for details.

In their March 13 meeting, the Mountain View City Council approved the Magnussen Toyota plan to build a new 40,000 square foot auto center on Old Middlefield Way. Read on to learn more about the project, and why it's moving forward over objection of nearby residents.

It's been a frustrating multi-year process of getting a 66-unit mixed-use development through the Palo Alto planning commission, and the developers might choose the builder's remedy solution. Read on to learn more.

Read on to learn about the seven-story builder's remedy project advancing through the Mountain View planning department and heading to the City Council for a final vote.

As the first tenants move into recently completed staff housing, the Mountain View Wiseman board considered tough choices about how to allocate funds for the project and other needs in a two and a half hour meeting on March 6. Read on for details.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to see tangible results from the $6.4 billion mental health bond voters approved last year. Moving fast carries a risk of neglecting under-resourced communities.

Read on to learn more about the area on San Antonio Road being eyed by the City of Palo Alto for 2,000 new housing units.

Oakland Democrat Buffy Wicks said lawmakers will soon see 20 bills to speed up housing construction, along with more on energy, water and transit.

A "transit village" of several units of housing is being proposed near Tamien Station in San Jose. Read on for details.

In their March 3 meeting, the Palo Alto City Council approved changes to zoning ordinances to encourage housing in commercial areas. Read on for details.

Feather River College is still reeling from the 2021 Dixie Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes in the surrounding community and warped the housing market. The college is one of many schools that have tried — and failed — to secure state grants to build more student housing.

Each year, legislation aimed at better wildfire mitigation fails – often due to cost or conflict with environmental regulations.

Read on to learn more about a 500+ apartment project proposed for 3896 Stevens Creek Boulevard currently moving through the San Jose planning process

Read on for details about the default of a proposed 708-unit downtown San Jose housing highrise, and what comes next.

Read on for details about a report on the 2-year Yolo County Basic Income Program which ended in April 2024.

Read on to learn more about the proposed development of 596 units of housing in the Twin Oaks area of Los Alto Hills.

A passel of recent California laws were supposed to supercharge the construction of desperately needed housing. According to YIMBY Law, they haven’t even come close.

The Planning Commission for the City of Mountain View is considering how to update city zoning codes to spur development of higher density housing. Read on to learn what they're thinking about.

Plans for a housing development near Japantown have changed, with the number of affordable apartments being significantly reduced. The San Jose Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday, with Commissioners Melissa Bickford and Pierluigi Oliverio absent, to recommend the City Council approve a 7-story, 118-home multifamily apartment complex with six affordable homes instead of 18 as initially proposed.