affordable housing

This is an opportunity for the county to save a viable building from demolition and to provide much-needed housing for the homeless.

Councilman Don Rocha stunned allies and adversaries alike when he skipped a vote Tuesday on a proposal to study commercial impact fees.

Local leaders found a place to relocate Hope Village, an un-permitted homeless camp created by activists and advocates for the un-housed.

San Jose will consider a resolution Tuesday denouncing the Trump administration’s separation of families at the U.S. border.

Hope Village was meant as an emergency shelter for for homeless people, but police are shutting it down just two days after it opened.

The county will consider setting aside 5 percent of a homeless housing bond for developmentally disabled people who are already housed.

A group of City Council members hope to revive a discussion about commercial linkage fees to fund new affordable housing.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District says it spent $1.4 million this year on 571 cleanups of creekside camps in San Jose and South County.

San Jose is trying to secure federal grants to replace its 58-year-old aircraft rescue and firefighting facility, which has fallen into disrepair.

Plans to convert San Jose’s old City Hall Annex into a parking lot instead of housing for the homeless has drawn the ire of a prominent developer.