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April 6, 2025
Palo Alto Daily Post
MidPen submitted two preliminary proposals in response to Menlo Park’s Request for Qualifications. MidPen has completed many projects in the area, including Firehouse Square in Belmont.
April 1, 2025
Sonoma Valley Sun
Nonprofit housing developers like Burbank or MidPen Housing know everything about how to leverage government money, but it’s up to the government to get the ball rolling. If the council is serious about creating affordable housing, now’s the time to prove it.
March 27, 2025
The Press Democrat
Sonoma County Supervisor Rebecca Hermosillo; “This project represents a critical step in addressing the housing needs of our community, and we are grateful for the collaboration of all our partners–MidPen Housing, as well as the state and federal funds that made it all possible.”
March 26, 2025
Patch
Construction is officially underway on Oak Gardens, a new housing development designed to provide permanent homes and support services for military veterans experiencing homelessness and their families. Community members, elected officials, veterans’ advocates, and business leaders gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
March 25, 2025
Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business
Wells Fargo has provided a total of $162.9 million in financing for Phase II of Midway Village, an affordable housing project in Daly City, roughly 8 miles south of San Francisco. MidPen Housing Corp. is the borrower and developer.
March 18, 2025
Newsroom
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) toured Brooklyn Basin in Oakland to experience local efforts to build affordable housing units along the Oakland shoreline. On the tour, Schiff was joined by representatives from the Northern California Carpenters Union, Alameda County Building and Construction Council, MidPen Housing, and Signature Development Group.
March 17, 2025
ABC7
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff toured Brooklyn Basin in Oakland to experience local efforts to build affordable and mixed-income housing along the shoreline. Brooklyn Basin will redevelop 64 acres in Oakland into a transit-oriented mixed-use neighborhood with residential, retail, commercial, open space and recreation facilities.
March 7, 2025
The Almanac
A report detailing Menlo Park’s housing construction progress in 2024 reveals that the city is mostly meeting the production targets outlined in its state-certified housing element for the 2023-2031 housing cycle. As of the end of 2024, Menlo Park had already permitted 35.7% of the 2,946 units the state
March 3, 2025
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Affordable housing developer MidPen Housing recently broke ground on a 62-unit development in Menlo Park, the home to tech and finance giants such as Meta, Robinhood and Andreessen Horowitz. The housing community, located at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at 795 Willow Road, helps meet the city’s need
February 28, 2025
Multi-Housing News
The location is an infill site on the VA Palo Alto Health Care system campus, owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The 100 percent supportive housing community will feature 62 apartments, including two managers’ units, that will serve veterans and their families earning up to 30 to
February 26, 2025
MidPen Housing
“My hope is that this project can serve as a testament that affordable housing should go everywhere in our community,” said Menlo Park Mayor Drew Combs, who lives a few blocks from Oak Gardens.
January 17, 2025
Santa Cruz Local
This proposed ballot measure would raise $5 million annually over the next 20 years for the City of Santa Cruz’s affordable housing trust fund, and would be vital to affordable housing production and homelessness prevention.
January 11, 2025
The Press Democrat
Construction on Casa Roseland is expected to start in January. The project calls for 75 affordable apartments for households earning 30% to 60% of the area median income. It’s being developed by MidPen Housing, one of the largest affordable housing developers in Northern California.
January 2, 2025
SF YIMBY
In December 2024, the Colibri Commons project team, community members, and supporters gathered to celebrate the topping out of a new affordable housing community in East Palo Alto. The development will provide 136 affordable homes.
December 24, 2024
Coastside News
Members of Del Campo a Cambio urged San Mateo County Supervisors to keep supporting affordable housing, especially homes for farmworkers, on the South Coast. The group connected with MidPen Housing to learn more about developments in Half Moon Bay.
December 21, 2024
Palo Alto Online
AB 2097… is essential to supporting transit and bicycle ridership and enhancing our quality of life, as well as meeting our Sustainability / Climate Action Plan, vehicle miles traveled-reduction, and housing goals.
December 16, 2024
SF YIMBY
Demolition permits have been filed for the existing parking garage at 850 Turk Street in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. The application follows the late-October new building permits being issued for the eight-story affordable apartment complex with nearly a hundred units.
December 6, 2024
The Daily Journal
MidPen Housing’s Kiku Crossing community is almost fully occupied, with 93% of families moved in. The 225-unit, all-affordable development was completed earlier this year and more than 6,500 applications were received for the units. “It’s a really diverse affordable housing community both in terms of the population served and