{"id":398702,"date":"2026-07-15T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:26:12","slug":"sunnyvale-affordable-housing-project-might-sprout-at-bank-branch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398702\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale affordable housing project might sprout at bank branch site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Affordable housing development at 295 South Mathilda Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale, concept.(Dahlin Group)\" width=\"1068\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SJM-L-SUVLHOUSING-02.jpg\" \/>Affordable housing development at 295 South Mathilda Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale, concept.\u00a0(Dahlin Group)<\/p>\n<p>SUNNYVALE \u2014 An affordable housing development that could produce more than 100 residences has been proposed for a former bank site in downtown Sunnyvale, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Should it move forward, nonprofit MidPen Housing would build 110 apartments at <a href=\"https:\/\/295southmathilda.midpenproperties.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">295 South Mathilda Ave.<\/a>, according to city documents. All but one would be affordable, with a manager\u2019s unit offered at market-rate prices.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents and community groups wrote letters of support to city officials ahead of a Sunnyvale Planning Commission meeting on July 13 to discuss the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an infill site, 295 South Mathilda will assist the city by better utilizing an old and unused commercial space,\u201d the Greenbelt Alliance wrote in a July 7 letter.<\/p>\n<p>The community organization said as part of the project\u2019s affordability components, MidPen Housing intends to set aside 25% of the units as apartments for previously unhoused individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreenbelt Alliance believes the 295 S. Mathilda project will provide much-needed smart, high-density housing in Sunnyvale,\u201d the community group stated in its letter.<\/p>\n<p>The planning commission didn\u2019t take final action on the project because the purpose of the meeting was to specifically study the project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Affordable housing development at 295 South Mathilda Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale, concept.(Dahlin Group)\" width=\"821\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SJM-L-SUVLHOUSING-03.jpg\" \/>Affordable housing development at 295 South Mathilda Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale, concept.\u00a0(Dahlin Group)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affordable housing development at 295 South Mathilda Avenue in downtown Sunnyvale, concept.\u00a0(Dahlin Group) SUNNYVALE \u2014 An affordable housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[380,184,387,7,8,1335,383,1011,1337,1533,181,100,182,388,88,90,89,198,94685,200,203],"class_list":["post-398702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-affordable-housing","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-housing","tag-housing-development","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-pm-report","tag-real-estate","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-sunnyvale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398702","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=398702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}