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Crescent Grove Apartments, in Castro Valley, set to open in early 2025, recently received 6,500 applicants for 28 available units...a sobering reminder of our ongoing housing crisis. We're supporting a YES vote on Prop 5, which would lower the barrier for local communities to approve affordable housing bonds. If passed, Prop 5 would become a new, needed avenue for unlocking more affordable housing across California. Make a plan to vote and vote by 11/5!

PYATOK is joining East Bay Housing Organizations and other California pro-housing groups to support voting YES on State Proposition 5 this election cycle. Prop 5 would lower the passage threshold for affordable housing and infrastructure bond measures from 2/3 majority (66.67%) to 55%. Prop 5 places more agency with the electorate to fund improvements to their communities and create much-needed homes for low- and middle-income Californians. Check out yesonprop5.org for more info, make a voting plan, and vote!

We could not have asked for a more beautiful day for 300 partners -- community members and leaders, elected and public officials -- to break ground on our Chinatown TOD Senior Affordable Housing project. This is just the first step to re-stitch Chinatown after major infrastructure projects of the '60s tore a literal hole down the middle, displacing thousands of residents, small businesses, and community institutions. Thank you to the dozens of community organizations who led and participated in 16 years of community activism to realize this day and to BART Director Robert Raburn who predicts a Chinatown that “will prosper around what will be known as THE Oakland Chinatown BART Station.” Many thanks to all of our speakers – Mayor Sheng Thao, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, Oakland Housing & Community Director Emily Weinstein, Oakland Housing Authority Chief Housing Operations Officer Michelle Hasan (she/her), Supervisor Lena Tam, Enterprise Community Partners Vice President Heather M. Hood, BAHFA Commissioner and Supervisor Nathan Miley, California Strategic Growth Council Executive Director Matt Read, BART Director Lateefah Simon, and Oakland’s own OG superhero, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who came out to celebrate the Chinatown community and join Director’s Raburn call to recognize the significance of this project to the Chinatown community with the eventual BART station renaming. “This project embodies the very essence of what EBALDC stands for -- community and connections, said EBALDC CEO Janelle Chan. “Today’s development is far more than creating much-needed senior affordable homes; it’s about us declaring that our community matters. We’re not asking for a seat at the table…our community made the table.” #OaklandChintatownBART Photo credits Alain McLaughlin and Germán Jiménez

We’re so proud to have supported the initial community engagement and station area planning that have led to the design and now groundbreaking of Chinatown TOD Senior Housing with East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)!

Enterprise Community Partners congratulates East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) on the recent financial closing of Chinatown TOD Senior Housing in #Oakland, California! This development will provide 97 new homes for low-income seniors with 44 homes reserved for seniors experiencing homelessness. EBALDC will provide services to all households with additional services funding from to the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency. In addition to #affordablehousing, Chinatown TOD will offer a commercial/commissary kitchen, primarily focused on food-oriented workforce development programming. Chinatown TOD is located on the parking lot of the Lake Merritt BART station that provides convenient access to public transportation, employment opportunities, schools, retail, restaurants/grocery, and parks. Chinatown TOD is the affordable housing anchor and the first phase of a larger multiphase, two-block transit-oriented development in partnership with BART. Financing for this development consisted of a $49MM construction loan from Capital One, $20MM from The City of Oakland, $16.5MM from California Department of Housing & Community Development AHSC Program, $11MM from California Department of Social Services, $3MM from the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, and a ground lease from BART. Enterprise was thrilled to arrange a $41MM #LIHTC equity investment on behalf of our investor partner, Capital One to fund this project. Big thank you to my colleagues Zohreh Khodabandelu, Sara Erickson, and Anna Zimmerman for working with our partners at EBALDC to get this under construction!

John Fox Place is a finalist for Affordable Housing Development of the Year by NAIOP Washington State! Since opening last year, the project has become home to 200 residents - including over 50 children and several formerly homeless, asylum-seeking families - while contributing a transformational presence along Seattle's Aurora Ave N. John Fox Place was co-designed with Seattle-based HEWITT, developed by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), and built by Exxel Pacific. This award recognizes projects that exemplify "design, construction, and development excellence while creating lasting social, economic and environmental impacts." Category winners are determined by popular vote, with polls open through October 3rd. Check out the finalists gallery, and cast your vote(s): https://lnkd.in/gxEdVf9u

⭐ NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS ⭐ Crescent Grove Apartments in Castro Valley is accepting applications from Tuesday, September 17th at 9:00 am to Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 5:00 pm! Applicants will be reviewed in lottery rank order until all vacancies are filled. ➡️ For rent information and instructions on how to apply: https://lnkd.in/gutUBEWK — Crescent Grove is a brand new affordable apartments community with a mix of studio, 1, 2 and 3-bedroom units 📌 22447 Ruby Street, Castro Valley, California 94546 📌 Convenient location close to both downtown Hayward and Castro Valley, two BART stations, shops and other services such as Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Hayward Public Library, Don Castro Regional Park 📌 Non-smoking and pet-friendly community with large outdoor lounge spaces, secure bike storage and repair center and on-site health & wellness services — ⁠Please contact the Leasing Agent for further information at (510) 956-5194 or crescentgrove@edenhousing.org. For TDD/TTY 1-800-735-2922

Another milestone at our East 12th St project as the PT concrete deck has officially been placed! Keep up with us as we continue to work towards finishing this new affordable housing building for the Oakland community! East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) The Unity Council PYATOK architecture + urban design City of Oakland Jordan Real Estate Investments Oakland Housing Authority Video by: Panaskopic Productions LLC #jhfitzmaurice #constructionexcellence #bayareabuilders #trustedcontractor #affordablehousing #residentialdevelopments #multifamily #multifamilyhousing

Congrats to these BART transit-oriented development projects! This will be a great boost to El Cerrito Plaza's first vertical (and modular) project, Parcel A South, a 70-affordable-home community that we're working on with Related California

We're proud of PYATOK principal Adrianne Steichen for being one of four "tossees" at this year's Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp #PoolToss, a fundraiser for TNDC's After School Program. Proceeds will go towards program support ranging from art and craft supplies to field trips for youth of the Tenderloin. We're hoping Adrianne makes a big splash and meets her fundraising goal! Learn more about TASP and sponsor a tossee here: https://lnkd.in/gR7DB4gv