San Mateo County supervisors have approved more than $41 million to help build nine affordable housing developments across eight cities, aiming to ease the region's housing affordability crisis. The funding, announced last week, will support at least 636 new affordable units in Belmont, Daly City, Half Moon Bay, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, South San Francisco, Moss Beach and North Fair Oaks.
The City of Sunnyvale recently earned top honors from the state for its efforts to implement policies that go above and beyond state housing law to facilitate housing production. Sunnyvale among 65 jurisdictions in California that have received the Prohousing Designation from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) since the program began accepting applications in 2021. With a total of 62 points, the City has the seventh highest score of any jurisdiction and the highest in Santa Clara County.
