{"id":333647,"date":"2026-05-27T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333647\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:27:15","slug":"new-plan-to-help-san-jose-employees-afford-housing-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333647\/","title":{"rendered":"New plan to help San Jose employees afford housing \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For people who work for the city of San Jose, it&#8217;s likely hard to actually afford to live in San Jose. The city wants to change that.<\/p>\n<p>A new program that launched this week aims to provide city employees with subsidized rent at a building in downtown. <\/p>\n<p>The Fay building in the SoFA District has close to 200 one-bedroom and two-bedroom units for city workers at below market rate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have a better work-life balance, to come to work by foot or by public transit, and just be able to live and work in the community that you&#8217;re serving,&#8221; San Jose Housing Department Deputy Director Sarah Fields said.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose said city employees can begin to apply to one day live in the building.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Scott Budman has more in the video report above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For people who work for the city of San Jose, it&#8217;s likely hard to actually afford to live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14500,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-333647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-making-it-in-the-bay","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}