"Start with San Jose's more than 50 mobile home parks, one of the last remaining paths to entry-level homeownership in Silicon Valley. The city is considering changes to its mobile home rent policy that would, for the first time, allow a significant rent increase on the space when a home is sold - a move that makes homes harder to sell and strips value from the equity owners have spent decades building."
"Then there are proposed changes to San Jose's inclusionary housing program, one of the city's most important tools for ensuring that market-rate developments contribute to affordability. The direction under consideration would shift affordability targets so high that, at the upper end, a family of four earning roughly $214,000 a year could still qualify. At a time when tens of thousands of renters are barely hanging on, redefining "affordable" upward is not bold leadership - it is denial of reality."
San Jose's upcoming 'Housing Day' agenda contains multiple proposals that would reduce housing affordability and weaken anti-displacement safeguards. Proposed changes to mobile-home park rules would allow significant rent increases on spaces when homes are sold, making sales harder and eroding long-held equity. Revisions to the inclusionary housing program would raise the income thresholds so high that families earning roughly $214,000 could qualify as "affordable," undermining support for lower-income renters. Proposed downtown residential and multifamily incentives would provide fee reductions and concessions that often favor developers without guaranteed public benefits. Cumulatively, the measures shift policy toward those already well-off and away from vulnerable residents.
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