Let's Talk Housing is an outreach effort of all the jurisdictions in Santa Clara County
This effort includes all cities, towns, and the county to increase awareness of and participation in the Housing Element Update process.
Our goal is to make sure everyone is involved in shaping our shared future.
Formed in October of 2019, the Santa Clara County Planning Collaborative is a shared effort among the county's jurisdictions to help address the region's housing challenges. The jurisdictions, by working together collaboratively, save money, time, and resources by sharing information and capacity; maintain & facilitate relationships with non-profits, affordable housing advocates, and key governmental organizations.
The Santa Clara County Collaborative is not a nonprofit or organization, just a group of staff from all of Santa Clara County’s jurisdictions that have found they can do more together than apart when it comes to housing policy.
For this Housing Element update they decided to try to do more extensive countywide outreach together and created this Let’s Talk Housing effort. Although they’ve all collaborated on housing policy for more than 12 years, including past housing elements, they have never tried this type of countywide outreach about city-specific processes before.
The hope is it will expand who is heard from in the community because it is more important than ever to hear from as many people as possible – to both state housing laws and to all the jurisdictions – so final plans match the housing needs of all community members.
