Doria Summa wants to preserve existing affordable housing – Palo Alto Daily Post

Doria Summa wants to preserve existing affordable housing – Palo Alto Daily Post

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council candidate Doria Summa says she wants to focus on preserving affordable housing that already exists in Palo Alto rather than trying to build a bunch of market rate condos and apartments. Summa is still bothered about the conversion of the President Hotel at 488 University Ave., where 75 tenants were evicted from studio apartments in November 2018 so a developer could convert the …

Anaheim Inches Closer to Mandating Affordable Housing

Developers in Anaheim could soon have to build affordable homes in certain residential projects or pay a fee as part of a new city ordinance that aims to boost the city’s low income housing stock. After over an hour of debate at their Tuesday meeting, officials voted 5-2 on a proposed law that would do just that in Anaheim – a city where independent investigators alleged developer favoritism at city hall in a report published last year. It comes…