What’s Going on with the Peninsula Health Care District? And why should people in San Bruno, Hillsborough, Millbrae, Burlingame, San Mateo and Foster City care? The District receives property tax money from those cities yet plans to use publicly-owned land at the site of the demolished Peninsula Hospital to build market rate housing few people can afford. This is happening while the biggest threat to public health and safety is a lack of affordable housing for medical workers and seniors.
One San Mateo Meeting
When:
7pm Wednesday
October 24
Where:
The Congregational Church of San Mateo
225 Tilton Ave. San Mateo
One San Mateo’s regular meetings have changed from second and fourth Sundays at 6 to second and fourth Wednesdays at 7. They will still be held at the Congregational Church of San Mateo. But instead of being held in a downstairs room, they will be held on the second floor in the library. We hope you will join us. As always, all are welcome. We will continue our work on advancing affordable housing solutions in San Mateo.
Affordable Rental Housing Policies Study Session
All those interested in seeing San Mateo do more to help renters in this deeply challenging housing market should make sure to come out for the upcoming study session at city hall. A range of modest but valuable policies which One San Mateo and its allies have been working to highlight over the past year will be discussed. These include relocation assistance (coupled with but distinct from red-tag relocation assistance), data collection on the rental market, enhanced Section 8 usability, and a boost in the city’s below-market-rate unit mandate. We want the city to use every tool it can to keep people housed.
The other deportation
Dear friends and allies,
In recent months the community has risen up in a deeply felt reaction to the nearly unimaginable cruelty that has taken place at our southern borders. The sheer extremity of the things we have witnessed—families being separated, children being warehoused, asylum seekers being denied any prospect of hope—has laid glaringly bare the nature of the conditions our immigrant neighbors wake up to every day.
One San Mateo Meeting
When:
August 26
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where:
The Congregational Church of San Mateo
225 Tilton Ave., San Mateo
This is to remind everyone that the next regular meeting of One San Mateo will be on August 26 at the Congregational Church of San Mateo. We will continue our push for affordable housing solutions in San Mateo.
All are welcome to attend!
A Roundup of Recent Articles on the Bay Area’s Housing Affordability Crisis
Two recent articles reconfirm what many of us know all too well: the Bay Area’s housing affordability crisis continues unabated.
One San Mateo 