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BAY AREA EVENTS, GRAND OPENINGS, PANELS, AND MORE!Affordable Housing Week 2017 is the perfect opportunity to learn more, get involved, and invite your friends and family to join the affordable housing movement. Please visit our Affordable Housing Week homepage for more information!
Coming Together: Can We Agree on How to Respond to our Housing Crisis?SV@Home is hosting their Affordable Housing Week Policy Breakfast on May 12th! Join the discussion as affordable housing leaders and experts address solutions and tackle hard questions around the housing crisis. Panel: Emmett Carson, CEO and President of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Moderator)California State Senator Scott Wiener, 11th DistrictCalifornia State Assemblymember Ash Kalra, 27th DistrictCarolyn Coleman, Executive Director of the League of CA CitiesPaul Nieto, Executive Vice President of Signature Development Group and 2016-2017 Chairman…
The Urban Data Science Workshop (CP290E) brought students together to collaborate on developing skills in data science and apply them to a common theme of housing affordability. We developed web scraping tools to collect data from online Craigslist rental listings and shared room listings, Airbnb listings, and Redfin sales transactions, for the entire United States. From the past few months we have now accumulated over 5 million rental listings, enabling us to analyze detailed spatial and temporal patterns in rents. …
It's no secret that the Bay Area is grappling with a regional housing shortage and all the negative consequences that come with it. Many argue that this is a regional issue that that needs a regional vision and regional tools. What is the role of regional government on housing? How can jurisdictions better collaborate across boundaries? Come tackle these thorny questions with our panel. Co-presented by Northern California APA and SV@Home. Panel:+ Leslye Corsiglia / Silicon Valley @ Home+ Ken Kirkey / Metropolitan…