Presenter: Sandra Delvin, President – Families Homes San Jose What is happening now in the housing arena? View article below: *https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/25/nuclear-option-supersized-housing-projects-are-planned-for-the-bay-areas-wealthiest-cities-is-one-coming-to-your-neighborhood/ What is happening now & coming up in the housing arena? Solution: Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative State Initiatives with Significant Property Tax Implications for Homeowners Action: Current Vote Requirement////Proposed Vote Requirement ACA 1: State… Read More


The above video is from the 5/15/21 District One Leadership Group meeting and documents that portion of the meeting when the topic of Opportunity Housing was discussed. Meeting highlights are as follows (click on the timecodes to go directly to that portion of the video). [Note: No editing of content was done. Only limited editing… Read More


This above video documents the agenda item dealing with Opportunity Housing at the 3/27/21 District 1 Leadership Group meeting. 00:00 – Ken Pyle, D1LG Chair, provides an overview of the topic. Opportunity Housing in the context of San Jose is the focus, although there are statewide discussions that could change the discussion.* The presentation is… Read More


What would you do if your kid had fallen into homelessness, incarceration, or drug-dependency? That is one of the many thought-provoking questions posed by Jay MacIntosh at the Saturday, November 11th, 2019 D1 Leadership Group meeting. The focus of MacIntosh and his initiative, The Caring Village, is to engage the community in helping foster youth.… Read More


Minutes (PDF) Opening Presentation (PDF) NAMI Presentation Kathy Forward, Executive Director of the Santa Clara County Chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) provides a heartfelt explanation of how NAMI helps individuals and their families deal with mental illness. Highlights include: 1:44 – NAMI’s Work 5:03 – NAMI and its Family-to-Family program was the… Read More