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Our Successes
Danville
Connected a market rate developer and a special needs developer
with parents of disable children to designate SIX Section 8 units
in a 64 unit apartment complex.
Dublin
Two days after our 2001 Housing Conference, the
city of Dublin scrapped their proposed Affordable Housing Plan, asked
staff to increase their inclusionary affordble housing requirement
for market rate developments, and develop other policies that would
produce more affordable housing. Povety Forum members helped to develop
those policies, and construction has now begun on the first inclusionary
units under the new plan: ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN low-income and
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN very low income apartments for families
and seniors at Fairway Ranch.
Livermore
Bought together city staff, representatives from local congregations,
and East Bay Habitat for Humanity, identified potential sites,
and supported the project through commission and council hearings,
resulting in TWENTY-TWO townhomes affordable to moderate and very
low income families. A joyful groundbreaking was held in September,
2004, and construction has begun.
Pleasanton
Initiated contact with Ponderosa Homes and Alameda County to revise
the original plan for large market rate homes on the Busch Property
to include SIXTY-FOUR low income units and TWENTY-THREE very low
income units in a 172 unit apartment complex. Construction began
in the summer of 2004.
San Ramon
Provided key input into the revision of San Ramon’s General
Plan, emphasizing the effects of the housing crisis on low income
workers at Bishop Ranch: overcrowding, long commutes, and working
two or more jobs to cover housing costs. Final plan addressed those
needs, and required that TWENTY-FIVE percent of all housing built
in San Ramon be affordable to low, very low and moderate income households.
San Ramon’s Housing Element calls for the construction of NINE
HUNDRED and ELEVEN units affordable to low and very low income households
in Dougherty Valley and two sites within the city limits.
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