News from EPACANDO

HEART’s FREE First-Time Homebuyer Workshops

HEART’s FREE First-Time Homebuyer Workshops

Find out how you can buy your first home with only 5% down!  Space still available in 1-hour on-line workshops (via Zoom link) offered by HEART of San Mateo. HEART provides loans to help first-time homebuyers purchase a house or condo. More info: ...

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Hiring ADU/CLT Program Associate, full time

Hiring ADU/CLT Program Associate, full time

EPACANDO is expanding two programs: one to help low-income homeowners build or install accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to help meet local needs for housing, and the other to oversee and expand our community land trust (CLT).  The Program Associate will play an essential role in...

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Seeking On-Site Supervisor

Seeking On-Site Supervisor

EPACANDO owns and manages a 15-unit low-income complex located on Clarke Avenue in East Palo Alto, CA serving low-income residents. We are looking for a part time On-Site Supervisor. Job includes an apartment , small stipend, and requires on-site duties and tenant relations. See full job...

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Info session: Construction loans available for ADUs

The City of East Palo Alto'sCalHome ADU/JADU Loan [Spanish version below]  The City of East Palo Alto provides low-interest loans of up to $80,000, with no monthly payments, to help cover construction costs of second-unit projects. The loans are now available to income-eligible East Palo...

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Celebration! Innovative ADU Project #1 financed, built, rented

Celebration! Innovative ADU Project #1 financed, built, rented

This project was the first to be completed using pilot versions of financial instruments which may help low-income homeowners of color finance an ADU in their backyard: a revolving construction loan fund, and a backyard lease model.[More…  below the 90-second video]  Background: ADUs -...

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Planning for ADU’s eased by loans

Planning for ADU’s eased by loans

CalHome enables the City to provide loans of up to $80,000 for ADU/JADU creation to households at or below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI). CalHome ADU/JADU Loan Description: The City of East Palo Alto and EPACANDO received a $2 Million CalHome award from the Department of Housing...

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Check out this video of Light Tree renovation

Light Tree Apartments in EPA is undergoing a renovation and rehab. The community will nearly double is size: providing an affordable place to call home for 185 low-income families. Check out the renovation's progress in this video! /EdenHousing & EPA CAN DO...

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Success: Below-Market-Rate Home Sold!

A City-sponsored BMR unit on University Avenue changed hands in only three months, thanks to BAAHA and EPACANDO’s collaboration – and to applicants’ good credit standing, plus luck in the lottery… Yesterdays’s press release…

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Light Tree Apartments renovation begins!

Light Tree Apartments renovation begins!

Now happening! In a press release last December (2020),  Eden Housing celebrated the groundbreaking of Light Tree Apartments’ renovation project., excerpted here: Light Tree Apartments has long been a 94-apartment family community in East Palo...

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