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Affordable Housing Developer Makes Innovation Part of Design
San Jose non-profit First Community Housing is nationally renowned as a pioneer in employing sustainable "green building" practices, and also for its ability to keep producing affordable housing in ultra-expensive Silicon Valley.  |
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Poverty Line
(Chart) Oct., 2007
Here’s the federal
poverty line... and here’s what
it costs to live in
Silicon Valley |
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Roofs Spring to Life with Innovative Building Design
A San Jose affordable housing developer known for its innovative green-building practices has broken ground on a project featuring Silicon Valley's first substantial "living roof." |
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Mixing and Matching - Financing Sustainable Affordable Developments
Developers who want to create affordable multifamily projects with sustainable features have to cobble together a variety of subsidies, credits, and lending programs. |
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Global Green Case Study
First Community Housing is demonstrating how an organization can better serve the housing needs of low-income families by making green building a core part of its overall mission. By designing all its buildings to be energy efficient and by specifying non-toxic building materials, First Community Housing ensures that its tenants benefit from lower utility bills and healthier living environments. |
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A Home of One's Own
Can't pay $700,000 for a starter house? Get on the waiting list and go affordable. When it came to buying a house in Santa Clara County, David and Elizabeth Soto faced a tough decision. Damned if you do, or damned if you don't. |
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Affordable Project Under Way
Working in partnership with the city (under the auspices of the Redevelopment Agency), First Community Housing is building the two-part, 100-unit collection of townhouses on the southeast corner of East Dunne Avenue and Butterfield Boulevard. Completion of the first 62 units is expected in fall 2003, with the final 38 due summer 2005. |
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Murphy Ranch
The first California Department of Housing and Community Development affordable housing project in Morgan Hill, California offers 62 family townhouses on more than 7 acres. Murphy Ranch was funded in part by the Department of Housing and Community Development's Multifamily Housing Program. The developer for Murphy Ranch is First Community Housing. |
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First Phase of ‘Affordable’ Apartment Project to Open
Affordable apartments will be ready for residents later this month at the Murphy Ranch Townhomes on East Dunne and Butterfield avenues. A total of 64 apartments will open in the first phase of the project. The second, and final, phase will open 38 with apartments. |
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Residents Happy in Stylish Non-profit Housing Complex
Passersby on Dunne Avenue might not realize a new eco-friendly affordable housing development has opened in Morgan Hill -- a city known more for its rolling hills and million-dollar homes than its low-income projects. |
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'Living roof' is His Next Green 'first'
Here in the world's technology capital, Silicon Valley's first newfangled "living roof" will start rising next year on -- of all things -- an affordable-housing project. |
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