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Members
Lauren Bigelow
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April 30, 2023 |
Karen Grove - Chair
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April 30, 2022
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Rachel Horst - Vice Chair
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April 30, 2025 |
Heather Leitch
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April 30, 2025
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Nevada Merriman
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April 30, 2025 |
Chelsea Nguyen
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April 30, 2025
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John Pimentel
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650-269-8933 |
April 30, 2024
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Roles and responsibilities
The Housing Commission is charged primarily with advising the City Council on housing matters including housing supply and housing related problems.
Commission priorities
- Community attitudes about housing (range, distribution, racial, social-economic problems)
- Programs for evaluating, maintaining, and upgrading the distribution and quality of housing stock in the City
- Planning, implementing and evaluating City programs under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
- Members serve with staff on a loan review committee for housing rehabilitation programs and a first time homebuyer loan program
- Review and recommend to the City Council regarding the Below Market Rate (BMR) program
- Initiate, review and recommend on housing policies and programs for the City
- Review and recommend on housing related impacts for environmental impact reports
- Review and recommend on State and regional housing issues
- Review and recommend on the Housing Element of the General Plan
- The five most senior members of the Housing Commission also serve as the members of the Relocation Appeals Board (City Resolution 4290, adopted June 25, 1991)
