San Jose is offering public workers\u00a0an opportunity\u00a0to rent a subsidized one- and two-bedroom in a downtown high-rise.<\/p>\n
Under a city partnership with The Fay<\/a>, public employees will be given preference for an apartment in the building and have until July 15 to join the interest list to live in the tower recently purchased out of foreclosure and designated for middle-income workers.<\/p>\n The deal comes as San Jose \u2013 consistently ranked among the most unaffordable cities in the country\u2013 scrambles to meet state-mandated housing targets requiring it to accommodate at least 60,000 units by 2031. That goal represents the second-highest housing target in the Bay Area, trailing only San Francisco.<\/p>\n Of the tower\u2019s 336 total units, the city has secured 197 one- and two-bedroom apartments for the rent-subsidy program. Under the current initiative, known as the Low-Income Voucher and Equity (LIVE) Program, subsidized one-bedroom rents range from $2,900 to $3,100, while two-bedroom units range from $3,450 to $4,000.<\/p>\n To qualify, a single applicant must earn between $113,700 and $158,250 annually, though the income ceiling stretches up to $226,050 for a household of four. Public employees will be given priority in the application process, and anticipated move-in for qualified tenants is August 2026.<\/p>\n Officials designed the initiative to help teachers, police officers, firefighters, and city staff live closer to where they work. Preference will go to public workers from the City of San Jose, Santa Clara County, San Jose State University, and the State of California. Interested applicants can fill out an official Google form provided by the city of San Jose, which is currently accessible through the city housing department\u2019s Facebook and Instagram pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Preferences will be given to people in those fields, but the units will also become available to the public at large.<\/p>\n