Dwellings

Read Elijah's Working Paper: https://www.elijahdelacampa.com/research

To learn more about the City's ADU program, please visit the ADU program website.Visit the Mayor's website at SJBackyardHomes.com

In the state of California, developers are required to build a certain number of apartments and housing units following ADA accessibility requirements. But do those requirements actually make a difference? Is there more that can be done? On this episode, we sit down with Allie Cannington, Manager of Advocacy and Organizing for The Kelsey, and Jacky Morales-Ferrand, Director of the Housing Department, to learn about building inclusive housing for people with (and without) disabilities.To learn more about The Kelsey and the work they're doing on building affordable, inclusive housing, please visit their website.Review the Kelsey's Housing Design Standards for Accessibility and InclusionLearn more about the Curb-Cut Effect from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.Priced Out (Technical Assistance Collaborative)Learn more about the various local funding mechanisms for affordable housing:Measure A (Santa Clara County)Measure E (San José)Commercial Linkage Fee (San José)Inclusionary Housing Fees (San José)

To learn more about the City's Housing Element process and review past Housing Element plans, please visit the Housing Element Update webpage.To learn more about the Housing Element process in other cities in Santa Clara County, please visit LetsTalkHousingSCC.org.Jargon glossary:Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA): Identifies the total number of housing units for a region, separated into four affordability levels.Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG): Regional planning agency for the nine-county Bay Area of California.Assessment of Fair Housing: In-depth analysis of residential segregation and access to opportunity. State law AB 686 (2018) requires all cities and towns in California include an Assessment of Fair Housing as part of their Housing Element updates. Learn more about the City's draft Assessment of Fair Housing in a recent June 2021 memo.

To learn more about opportunity housing, please visit the Planning Department's Opportunity Housing webpage.

Learn more about the City's interim housing program: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/housing/ending-homelessness/bridge-housing-communitiesCheck out SV@Home's Affordable Housing Month: https://siliconvalleyathome.org/events/#affordable-housing-month

2020 was a whirlwind year, challenging our collective notions about what the world around us should look like. Housing, already top of mind in California, became a national conversation. On today's episode, we're joined by David Friedlander, CEO of the Change Order Group, a climate and innovation-focused development company. We talk about what needs to change in the world of planning and development to ensure fewer people are unhoused, and what the future of housing might look like in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Episode TranscriptSan José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgResearch by Issi Romem:"Young People Don't Want Construction Jobs. That's a Problem for the Housing Market." Wall Street Journal, 2018."Disparity in Departure:Who Leaves the Bay Area and Where Do They Go?" Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley."Phoenix has hit 100 degrees on record-breaking half of the days in 2020." Washington Post, 2020."Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things." Netflix, 2016."Making Room: Housing for a Changing America." National Building Museum exhibition, November 2017 - January 2019."Reinventing the Residential Hotel: One Way to Help Solve the Housing Crisis Affecting San Francisco and other American Cities." Panoramic Interests, 2017."Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States." Paul Groth, 1994. San Jose State University Library Listing."In Stockholm, a Turn to Sharing Homes." New York Times, 2019."Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise." Huffington Post, 2019.

Office of Supportive Housing for Santa Clara County: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/Pages/home.aspxSan José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgContinuum of Care: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/ContinuumofCare/Pages/home.aspxCommunity Plan to End Homelessness: https://housingtoolkit.sccgov.org/take-action/santa-clara-county-community-plan-end-homelessness-2020-20252016 Measure A Affordable Housing Bond: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/osh/HousingandCommunityDevelopment/AffordableHousingBond/Pages/home.aspxEpisode Transcript

San José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgHousing Ready Communities Action Network: www.destinationhomesv.org/hrcactionEpisode Transcript

San José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgEpisode Transcript

San José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgPATH: epath.org/Destination: Home: www.destinationhomesv.orgHousing Ready Communities Action Network: https://destinationhomesv.org/hrcaction/Episode Transcript

San José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgDestination: Home: www.destinationhomesv.orgSacred Heart Community Service: https://sacredheartcs.org/volunteer/HomeFirst Services: https://www.homefirstscc.org/how-to-supportLifeMoves: https://www.lifemoves.org/make-an-impact/Abode Services: https://www.abodeservices.org/ways-to-giveSilicon Valley Strong: https://www.siliconvalleystrong.orgEpisode Transcript

Destination Home: www.destinationhomesv.orgHousing Ready Communities Action Network: https://destinationhomesv.org/hrcaction/San José Housing Department: www.sjhousing.orgEpisode Transcript 

City of San José Housing Department: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/housing