HONORARY COUNCIL
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Hon. Ash Kalra E: [email protected]
California State Assembly
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Member
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Hon. Sam Liccardo
Mayor, City of San Jose
June 16, 2022
Hon. Evan Low
California State Assembly
Member
Mayor & City Council
Councilmember Raul Peralez City of San Jose
City of San Jose
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Chuck Robbins San Jose, CA 95113
CEO, Cisco
Hon. Mike Wasserman Re: Loan Commitments for Four New Affordable Housing Developments Santa Clara County Supervisor (Item 8.3 on the June 21, 2022 Council Meeting Agenda) Lived Experience
Advisory Board
Honorable Mayor & City Councilmembers,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Thank you for your ongoing efforts to address our community's affordable Roger Biscay
housing and homelessness crisis.
Cisco
Jan Bernstein Chargin We are pleased to see the recommendation to commit funding to these four Gavilan College
new affordable housing developments. Together, these developments will Louis Chicoine add 448 affordable homes to our community - more than half of which will Abode Services serve Extremely Low Income households experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. We urge the City Council to approve the loan Dontae Lartigue
Razing the Bar commitments for these four key affordable housing developments.
Miguel Marquez These are precisely the type of affordable housing units we need to address County of Santa Clara
our region's homelessness crisis, which is why Destination: Home was proud Jacky Morales-Ferrand to provide low-or no- interest pre-development / acquisition funding for all City of San Jose four projects. All of the projects are also leveraging Measure A funding from the County and three of the four projects are also receiving vouchers from Jennifer Loving
Destination: Home the Housing Authority - providing an exemplary example for how our local jurisdictions are working together to build more desperately-needed Preston Prince
affordable housing for our most vulnerable residents.
SCC Housing Authority
Joel John Roberts Given the strong response to the City's most recent NOFA, we look forward PATH
to seeing additional development proposals brought forward for funding in John A. Sobrato the coming months and urge the City Council to remain committed to The Sobrato Organization investing in these critically-important affordable housing proposals.
Ben Spero
Spectrum Equity Investors Sincerely,
Nicole Taylor
Silicon Valley Community
Foundation
Ted Wang
Cowboy Ventures
Gary Wipfler Jennifer Loving
Apple CEO
ENDING HOMELESSNESS IN SILICON VALLEY