The first measure on this year’s midterm election ballot has passed. With 100 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday afternoon, Prop. 1 was passed with a 54.07 percent “yes” vote. The “yes” side garnered a total of 3,713,218 votes versus “no” with 3,154,381 votes.
Californians said yes to more funding for affordable housing programs and homelessness prevention, but no to measures which would have provided more tax breaks for homeowners or more rent control to tenants on a ballot largely dominated by high-profile housing-related measures.
Jonathan, his wife Sarah, and their three children, baby Adrian, Arianna (8), and Jonathan Jr. (9) have lived in a two-bedroom rental apartment in Chula Vista for the past three years. Arianna and Jonathan, Jr. share a bedroom in the small apartment. Health, safety, and maintenance issues go unaddressed by the landlord. There are no safe spaces for the children to play outside. Jonathan proudly served in the United States Marine Corps for four years, participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom and earning a variety of medals, ribbons, badges, certificates, and...
Republican John Cox and Democrat Gavin Newsom – finalists in the race for the state’s top job, which voters will decide in November – agreed in a recent forum that the pervasive lack of affordable housing is California’s number-one issue.
Self-Help Enterprises has been awarded $5.25 million in technical assistance funds from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development for the purpose of providing a program of technical assistance to carry out mutual self-help housing efforts that aid low-income families in achieving the dream of homeownership.
Maureen Sedonaen, President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco can finally announce that they will be breaking ground on a 20 unit development in Redwood City. It was a long road to get to this point, with a California Environmental Quality Act lawsuit stalling the project for over 2 years, Maureen explains the challenges and hurdles the organization faced in her Guest Opinion piece now running in the San Francisco Business Journal. Read the Article...
The Wirth family is a local Sacramento Veteran family. Mark Wirth served 6-years in the U.S. Air Force. He and Emily grew up in poverty with parents who suffered from addiction issues. They were the first in their families to graduate from High School and are both working towards their nursing degrees while raising their two children – 7-year old Natalie and 3-year old Troy. They are currently living in an overpriced rental home and paying over 50% of their gross income on rent alone (over the past few years...
Sharon Ellis, Habitat for Humanity Orange County’s President and CEO and the Chair of Habitat for Humanity California knows a thing or two about housing. Her recent Op-Ed to the Whittier Daily News gives an in depth look at the importance of funding affordable housing in California, especially as we face an unprecedented housing crisis. By supporting Proposition 1 on the November ballot, Californians across the state will be supporting “veterans, working families, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence, Californians experiencing homelessness and others in need.” Read the full...
Top civil rights leaders are suing California for climate policies they say disproportionately harm its poorest residents, particularly Latinos and African Americans.
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/ Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, Inc.
August 24, 2018
More than 100 volunteers were welcomed in to the residences of East Palo Alto homeowners earlier this month during Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s latest Building Blocks event. Building Blocks is all about home repairs. It is the perfect way of providing a critical mass of volunteers to undertake larger-scale repair projects that need sustained effort. It is part of Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization program which aims to keep residents in their homes and part of the communities they love. One house in this round of repairs was occupied by...
