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In the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area, there are 30 available and affordable housing units for every 100 extremely low-income households below 30% of the area median income. There are 43 available and affordable units for every 100 low income households below 50% of the area median income. [4]
California Senate Bill 35 (SB 35) is a statute streamlining housing construction in California counties and cities that fail to build enough housing to meet state mandated housing construction requirements, and exempts construction under the law from California Environmental Quality Act review. [1]
About one-third of California cities and counties have inclusionary zoning ordinances. Such laws might require, beside affordable units for sale, units for rent. In this case, a Los Angeles housing ordinance in effect mandated that sixty rentals for low-income tenants be included in Geoff Palmer's 350-unit development west of downtown. [193]
The developers sued, arguing that the city's rejection violated the HAA. In June 2017, a judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County ordered the city to reconsider the developer's proposal in accordance with the objective standards mandated by the HAA. [14] [15] In August 2017, the City Council voted to approve the project. [16] [15]
After 18 months of debating and four attempts, the Skokie Village Board approved an affordable housing ordinance aimed at creating more affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income ...
In 2000 the SBLC authored and spearheaded a campaign to establish universal child healthcare in San Jose. After the plan failed in City Council, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors offered the necessary funding. In 2001 SBLC succeeded in winning 5,000 units of affordable housing in a Coyote Valley development project. [11]
Dec. 23—Santa Fe County leaders have revived a push to build 130 affordably priced apartments on the city's south side, a complex that would mark the county's first new housing project in decades.
The definition of affordable housing includes both low-income housing and moderate-income housing. In California, low-income housing is typically designed for households making 51 percent to 80 percent of the median income, and moderate-income housing is typically for households making 81 percent to 120 percent of the median income. [16]