Resources for Community Development

Thank you Lena Tam for joining us for a tour of Ashland Place! It was a pleasure to share the success of this mixed-use 100% affordable housing community.

What a joy to celebrate the groundbreaking of Nellie Hannon Gateway in Emeryville last week! Thank you Housing Trust Silicon Valley for highlighting our development and your continued support.

Thank you Alameda County Housing & Community Development Department for highlighting Madrone Terrace! Alameda County has been a tremendous partner to RCD for many years and we thank them - and the voters who approved Measure A1 - for their continued commitment to supporting affordable homes.

In the month of May, which is Affordable Housing Month, we'd like to thank Measure A1! Funded by $9.2M in Measure A1 funds, Madrone Terrace, a new 100% affordable housing development in Ashland, will break ground this Spring. The project will support 79 new apartments with 20 apartments dedicated to households transitioning out of homelessness. Resources for Community Development Hayward Area Recreation & Park District City of San Leandro

Madrone Terrace is starting construction! The 100% affordable housing community will bring 79 rental apartments above a day care and Hayward Area Recreation and Park District community center to Ashland. This development continues our deep investment in the Eden Area of unincorporated Alameda County.

Just a block from Madrone Terrace is Ashland Place, an RCD community completed in 2015 that has commercial space dedicated to providing opportunities for local food businesses. Building on our investment at Ashland Place, our Community Development team became deeply involved in the Eden Area and continues to lead initiatives focused on community health, anti-eviction education, rental aid, and food and other basic needs assistance.

Madrone Terrace is a continuation of RCD's investment and a testament to our commitment to the area. This transformative development wouldn't be possible without the support from our partners. Thank you to California Department of Housing & Community Development, Alameda County Housing & Community Development Department, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and JPMorgan Chase & Co.!

📣 Our Winter newsletter is here! 📣

Learn more about our work including new developments breaking ground, our Resident Services team spreading holiday cheer last winter, murals coming to Quetzal Gardens and more!

Winter 2023 Newsletter Latest news from RCD – Winter 2023 New Homes – Rick Judd Commons and Bell St. Gardens Start Construction In December, we celebrated the groundbreaking of Rick Judd Commons in Concord! As the first new affordable development in Concord in over 20 years, Rick Judd Commons will bring 62 homes for l...

Our affordable housing developments provide more than just homes to our residents - we also help create a new community often fostered by our resident services team.

At Ohlone Gardens in El Cerrito, our resident services team encourages early literacy through a monthly storytime program. The children participating, ranging from 4-10 years old, take turns reading to the group. For this storytime at the end of last year, they also shared what they were grateful for!

Bell St. Gardens in Fremont is starting construction! We are so excited to reach this milestone and begin the transformation of a former motel and adjacent empty parcel into a new 100% affordable community.

This development could not have been made possible without the tremendous support of our partners. Thank you to County of Alameda, CA - Government, California Department of Housing & Community Development and City of Fremont, CA Government

As we enter 2023, we’re looking forward to a busy and fruitful year! By this summer, we will have six new 100% affordable developments in construction which will create almost 550 new rental homes. These communities will provide much needed housing for low-income families and households experiencing homelessness

In addition to new homes, these developments will also support stronger communities by creating new commercial spaces for community-serving nonprofits including Healthy Black Families at Maudelle Miller Shirek Community and Emeryville Citizen Assistance Program at Nellie Hannon Gateway.

We’re celebrating the groundbreaking of Rick Judd Commons in Concord! As the first new affordable development in Concord in over 20 years, Rick Judd Commons will provide 62 new affordable homes to the city for low-income and working families, including 13 apartments set aside for households transitioning out of homelessness. We can’t wait to welcome families into their new rental homes in 2024.

Thank you to our partners who made this development possible. We couldn’t have done it without Wells Fargo, California Department of Housing & Community Development, City of Concord, California, and Contra Costa County. Many thanks to our general contractor, J. H. Fitzmaurice and our architect Lowney Architecture.

It’s ! You can help support our work of building new and critically needed affordable homes for residents like David by making a generous donation today.

Read more about David’s story and donate to support families like his: https://rcdhousing.org/stories-from-our-residents-2022/

📰The RCD Fall Newsletter is here! 📰

Check out our latest news celebrating our annual fundraiser, congratulating our 2022 resident scholars and a new staff spotlight. & don't forget the pictures of modules being set at Sango Court!

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October 2022 Newsletter Latest news from RCD – Fall 2022 My Eden Voice Members Celebrate at Sparking Connections Sparking Connections 2022: Welcome Home Thank you for joining us at Sparking Connections: Welcome Home! It was a very successful night of fundraising with friends and colleagues. Many guests said it was a joy ...

We're very excited about hitting this milestone - the first module of our first modular development! 🎉

Check out this video about My Eden Voice - a new, grassroots organization that serves the Eden Area in unincorporated Alameda County.

In 2018, RCD staff, community members, and our local nonprofit partners created My Eden Voice (MEV) to unite grassroots community organizations in the Eden Area. MEV’s mission is to build community power to win campaigns that advance racial, housing, economic, language, and environmental justice for the urban unincorporated Alameda County communities.

RCD concluded its incubation of MEV this summer and together we celebrate its progress toward becoming an independent nonprofit organization.

My Eden Voice Resources for Community Development (RCD) incubated My Eden Voice (MEV) from its inception in 2018 until July 2022. This video details the creation of MEV an...

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Sparking Connections: Welcome Home last week! It was a wonderful evening connecting with our supporters and partners and celebrating all we can achieve – together.

A big thank you to our Title sponsors of the event Union Bank and Nibbi Brothers General Contractors and our Ground Breaker sponsors James E. Roberts-Obayashi Corp., Silicon Valley Bank and J.H Fitzmaurice.

Thank you California Climate Investments for highlighting Maudelle Miller Shirek Community and Healthy Black Families. We're looking forward to Healthy Black Families Inc. having a new headquarters on the ground floor of the development and our continued partnership!

Thank you Housing Trust Silicon Valley for your support!

Congratulations to Resources for Community Development for the beautiful Grand Opening of Quetzal Gardens in ! We were thrilled to join the festivities last week and are proud to help provide early funding to help support this amazing project, which includes 71 affordable rental homes for individuals and families in the vibrant Mayfair community.

What a joy to celebrate the grand opening of Quetzal Gardens -thank you to all our supporters and partners who came out to celebrate with us!

It was wonderful to celebrate the grand opening of Quetzal Gardens, our newest 100% affordable housing community in San Jose.

In addition to providing affordable apartments, this beautiful new building also has approx. 10,000 square feet of community serving commercial space including a new home for Somos Mayfair. Welcome home!

🔥❤️🌟 Today we got to celebrate the official grand opening of Quetzal Gardens!

70 units of affordable housing right here in Mayfair, in the most beautiful new building. And on the ground floor— SOMOS Mayfair’s new headquarters! We will continue to organize, build, and learn alongside community, and can’t wait to host you (once our staff finishes moving in!)

This project is a dream come true— made possible by so many brilliant collaborators and partners, and ALSO by Eastside residents who named the need for housing and have tirelessly worked to bring it to life through this project.

Thank you and congrats to Resources for Community Development for leading this vision! More photos and updates to come 💛

Happening this week on May 11th!

We must solve our housing crisis if we are going to build a Bay Area where people of all races and backgrounds can thrive in safe, affordable, and vibrant communities.

Join the San Francisco Foundation and The Commonwealth Club of California to learn from a powerful panel of leaders, including Dan Sawislak, RCD’s Executive Director. What makes them optimistic about the future and what will it take to build a better Bay Area?

Register here: https://sforce.co/37nSZWt

It was such a joy to celebrate the grand opening of Coliseum Place with the incredible people and organizations that helped make this 100% affordable development happen! This beautiful new community is the result of years of close collaboration and support. Together we created 59 new rental homes in an all-electric and transit-oriented building! Thank you to everyone who made yesterday such a special day.

David Baker Architects Nibbi Brothers General Contractors Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley Bank of America LISC Bay Area Enterprise Community Partners East Bay Housing Organizations City of Oakland - Local Government California Department of Housing & Community Development

Thank you so much to Mayor Libby Schaaf for joining us at our grand opening of Coliseum Place! As Mayor Schaaf notes, it was truly a collaboration between many partners.

We can’t wait to celebrate the grand opening of Coliseum Place as part of East Bay Housing Organizations' ! Join us on May 5th to learn more about this sustainable, 100% affordable new community. Learn more here: https://rcdhousing.org/coliseum-place/

Thank you to our generous event sponsor, Bank of America!

Our CFO Eric Knecht says it best, "Union Bank has been a steadfast partner and supporter of RCD through thick and thin.” Read more about our long-standing partnership in our latest April 2022 newsletter: https://rcdhousing.org/april-2022-newsletter/

Beneficial State Bank | Client Spotlight: Resources for Community… The San Francisco Bay Area consistently ranks as the most expensive place to live in the U.S., and the cost of living continues to increase year-over-year. Access to stable and affordable housing for working-class families and individuals, nonprofits, and community-serving organizations is critical....

It’s demolition day! 🎉🎉

Maudelle Miller Shirek Community has officially broken ground! By 2024, this former credit union will be transformed into a mixed-used, transit-oriented development that will provide 87 homes + a new space for Healthy Black Families Inc., a local non-profit.

We’re thrilled to announce that Sango Court in Milpitas has broken ground! Our newest community in the South Bay is also our first modular development. Once completed, this 100% affordable housing community will provide 102 new homes, including 40 apartments dedicated as permanent supportive housing.

Quetzal Gardens, RCD’s first community in San Jose, is now 100% occupied! To celebrate this milestone, here’s a look at some of the ways our architect, SGPA Architecture and Planning, took inspiration from the Quetzal bird to design this vibrant new community.

RCD’s Alicia Klein had the honor of showing Governor Newsom one of our newest developments. We recently purchased the Bella Vista Inn – a former motel --in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, California. Today we celebrate being awarded $22M in Project Homekey funds! These state funds will make it possible for RCD to provide interim housing for 67 homeless households as we work toward developing this site into permanent supportive and affordable family apartments in the coming years. Read More: https://bayareane.ws/31ZNZoo