To Build More Affordable Housing,
Developers Need These 4 Things
It is not easy being an affordable housing developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the housing crisis in the Bay Area deepens, thousands of people are applying for the scant available affordable housing units and developers are desperate to build more.
“We want to build more housing, but it doesn't happen very easily,” Palo Alto Housing CEO Candice Gonzalez said during Bisnow's recent Bay Area Affordable Housing event in San Francisco.
Funding is often tough to secure and community approval is often tougher.
She…
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