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County of Alameda Home Together Fund: Multifamily Homelessness Solutions, 2025 New Construction Request for Proposals (RFP)

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The Alameda County Housing & Community Development Department (HCD) and the Housing & Homelessness Services Department (H&H) are seeking proposals to rapidly expand the supply of long-term site-based housing options for people experiencing homelessness under the County’s new Home Together Fund (HTF) Multifamily Homelessness Solutions Program (Program or HTF MHS Program). RFP Purpose: This RFP … Read more

SHIFT Program Released, Info Session 9/9

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HCD announced the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Scalable Housing Investment Funding Toolkit (SHIFT) initiative, a pilot program designed to pioneer the production of affordable housing through:  This RFP seeks qualified architecture firms to develop design proposals optimized for small-scale developments on irregular infill lots throughout the county. View the RFP. … Read more

Rental Mediation Free for Unincorporated Residents

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Rental Mediation Services provides fast, free, and confidential mediation in person or online to help people come together to talk about and potentially solve their disputes in a controlled environment, provided FREE for Alameda County’s Unincorporated Neighborhoods: Ashland, Castlewood, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, Happy Valley, Hillcrest Knolls, San Lorenzo and Sunol. This free and confidential Program … Read more

Read the Alameda County Housing Plan Approved July 2025

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On August 1, 2024, The Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department released the 10-Year Housing Plan. The Plan is the result of more than two years of work to gather data and community feedback and will drive the County’s investments in housing affordability for the next decade, guiding the County’s efforts to produce new … Read more

Just Cause For Eviction Ordinance Passed

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On February 4, 2025, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors passed a Just Cause for Eviction ordinance on second read. This ordinance will take effect on March 6, and covers all unincorporated areas of Alameda County. Just Cause eviction protections limit the allowable reasons a landlord can evict their tenant. Read the Ordinance here. The … Read more

Tax-Defaulted Property Development Loan (TDPD) Program

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Tax-Defaulted Property Development Loan (TDPD) Program HCD announces the release of up to $3,000,000 in Measure A1 Innovation and Opportunity funds available to provide acquisition funding for transforming vacant and abandoned properties into new affordable housing. In Alameda County, the Alameda County Treasurer-Tax Collector administers the Chapter 8 tax-defaulted property purchase process and determines and … Read more

Why a California Plan to Build More Homes Is Failing

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California state Sen. Toni Atkins is working to fix some of the obstacles homeowners meet when trying to build under SB9. A middle-aged lady sitting in front of the California State Flag wearing a red outfit

By Christine Mai-Duc, Wall Street Journal Only a few dozen people have built housing under a law allowing them to construct duplexes alongside single-family houses When California legislators voted in 2021 to eliminate zoning laws that require neighborhoods to have only single family homes, supporters celebrated it as a tool to alleviate the state’s crippling housing shortage. Opponents … Read more

Renting Forever and Trying to Create a Strong Financial Future

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A couple playing air hockey on an apartment complex's community center, an open airy space with huge floor to celling windows and comfortable couches

By Paulette Perhach, New York Times Either by choice or because they are priced out of the market, many people plan to never stop renting. Building wealth without home equity requires a different mind-set. As in any other market, predicting the future of rent charges is impossible. Rents could deflate as they did during the pandemic … Read more