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Maurice Jones, CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, announces a new partnership with Facebook to create affordable housing in Silicon Valley.
8.01.2017 - Press Releases
Community Groups and Facebook Team Up with LISC to Drive $75 Million to Help Meet Demand for Affordable Housing in Silicon Valley
LISC to manage and grow Catalyst Housing Fund from $18.5 million to $75 million Housing Trust Silicon Valley joins partnership as local collaborator and capital contributor EAST PALO ALTO and MENLO PARK, CA, August 1, 2017 -- The Catalyst Housing Fund has tapped a national nonprofit with close ties to the Bay Area to grow its capital base to $75 million and invest in quality affordable housing developments that address pressing needs in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. The Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) will manage the start-up fund that was recently seeded with $18.5 million from Facebook in partnership with key community organizations and the cities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. LISC plans to quadruple the size of the fund over five years working with its national network of corporate and philanthropic partners and drawing on expertise gained over its 40 years of community development work – including more than $13 billion in affordable housing investments. According to the partners, collectively known as Envision Transform Build-East Palo Alto (ETB), the Catalyst Housing Fund expects to begin financing affordable housing projects this fall. Housing Trust Silicon Valley will contribute capital and lending capacity to help support this effort. “We welcome LISC to this partnership with our local communities to help address our region’s affordable housing crisis,” said Elliot Schrage, Facebook vice president for public policy and communications. “LISC’s success in bringing new voices, ideas, and investments to the Catalyst Housing Fund will help the fund reach its $75 million target and accelerate development of affordable housing for our neighbors. The future of Silicon Valley as an engine of economic opportunity depends on harnessing our shared interest and scaling effective community partnerships like this one. It's taken us a lot of hard work to get here, and we're excited to begin working with LISC on rehabilitating, preserving, and building affordable housing,” said Tameeka Bennett, ETB spokesperson. “For us as community groups in East Palo Alto, it was important to choose a fund manager that can not only scale the fund up for maximum impact, but one that is invested in providing local programs for non-profit organizations to increase capacity and shore-up infrastructure on the ground. It was also important for us to find an organization that was willing to come in and partner with our community. LISC offers programs and services that we believe East Palo Alto and other surrounding communities can benefit from. It is our hope that similar communities challenged by displacement and gentrification will be inspired to use this model to make a dent in the regional housing crisis.” “We’re one step closer to battling the regional housing crisis with LISC joining the partnership to help grow the Catalyst Housing Fund,” said East Palo Alto Mayor Larry Moody. “The people of East Palo Alto and our neighboring communities deserve affordable housing options right here in the neighborhoods they call home. This growing partnership shows that through collaboration we can find solutions to challenges in our region.” “We are honored and excited to be chosen to help this incredible coalition of community groups, including Facebook, bring quality affordable housing to East Palo Alto and Menlo Park,” said Maurice Jones, LISC CEO. “Quality housing accessible to the entirety of the diversity represented in a region is an essential ingredient of a healthy, growing community with broadly shared prosperity. We look forward to helping to leverage resources and expertise from the community and across America to this pioneering effort.”
Last winter, ETB, Facebook and the two cities announced a partnership to address regional challenges like affordable housing, legal support for tenants, transportation equity and access economic opportunities. Since the announcement, the partners have provided $500,000 to Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to support Belle Haven and East Palo Alto residents threatened with displacement from evictions and other forms of landlord abuse. In addition, the partners donated $250,000 to Rebuilding Together Peninsula to rehabilitate or reconstruct homes in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven. Together, the partners are continuing to broaden their capacity for impact. The founding community groups in this partnership are Youth United for Community Action, Faith in Action Bay Area, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, and Comité de Vecinos del Lado Oeste, East Palo Alto. ETB was assisted by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Public Advocates Inc., and the Law Office of Julian Gross who works for PolicyLink.
Perhaps a Zinger headed out to left field on the playing field of politics here in The Most Conservative City in America, but hey at least it's not boring, right?
The little local group is switching leagues from playing softball to hitting hardball with throwing this recent fast-pitch online that looks like it has scored a hit on District 6 Mesa City Council member Kevin Thompson.
Stay tuned for more but continue watching this group who wants to remain anonymous
"Rumors around the city have started to fly regarding a potential future Mesa Mayoral race of Kevin Thompson for 2020. Thompson appears to has started his 2018 re-election campaign slowly and is running unopposed. City staff and east valley residents are well aware of his disdain for Mayor John Giles for his lack of solid leadership and consistent two face lying. Thompson, from what we've heard and gathered is also tired of the old Mesa guard and their affinity to slow process to slow processes down, waste tax payer money and only serve themselves. While we don't agree with all of Thompson's policies and don't know him well, we would welcome a change from someone who is a well known liar like John Giles."
Mebbe you MesaZona blogger might be susceptible from time-to-time to radical thinking, but why have jobs/sources of employment oftentimes been using the word collar to describe the delineating of types of workers in the past: Blue Collar or White Collar? Buttoned-up, buttoned-down? No-collar open-neck shirts? Why use the word "collar" at all? Who's to say? Like most out-of-date concepts, this one appears to stick to describe the workforce employment opportunities-of-the-future as New Collar Jobs. Who said they came up with this idea a few months ago? "If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business ... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar," she said.
IBM CEO: Jobs of the future won't be blue or white collar, they'll be 'new collar'
The rise of the “new-collar job” and what it means for the workplace Source > https://www.gnapartners.com/blog/new-collar-job/ "Although pop culture may make it seem otherwise, not everyone goes to college right after high school. In fact, only about 34 percent of the U.S. adult population has a bachelor’s degree or higher, and the number of graduating high school seniors going to college in recent years has been declining as well. This spells trouble when compared with projections on future workforce needs, which estimate that 35 percent of jobs created in the next three years will require at least a bachelor’s degree, and findings from employer surveys, which indicate that nearly a third of employers have increased their educational requirements for positions that used to require only a high school diploma. This gap between expected job growth and the rising cost of a four-year college degree (plus the crushing loan debt many recent grads are facing) has contributed to concerns about the shrinking opportunities for middle-class Americans to get high-paying, traditionally white-collar jobs at the same time as the blue-collar job market continues to lag behind in terms of job creation. But it’s not all bad news: This chasm has also resulted in the creation of an entirely new category in the American labor market: the “new-collar job.” New-collar jobs (also called middle-skill or no-collar jobs) are those that prioritize worker skills over education, particularly in industries like technology and health care.
The term “new-collar” became widely popularized in an op-ed piece by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty in USA Today. In the piece, Rometty extolls the value these kinds of workers can offer:
“But even as many seek to revitalize traditional industries, lasting job creation will require an understanding of important new dynamics in the global labor market. This is not about white collar vs. blue collar jobs, but about the “new collar” jobs that employers in many industries demand, but which remain largely unfilled.
…[The] nature of work is evolving – and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill. As industries from manufacturing to agriculture are reshaped by data science and cloud computing, jobs are being created that demand new skills – which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting. And the surprising thing is that not all these positions require advanced education. Certainly, some do… [but] in many other cases, new collar jobs may not require a traditional college degree…What matters most is that these employees – with jobs such as cloud computing technicians and services delivery specialists – have relevant skills, often obtained through vocational training.”
Just to be fair and balanced, your MesaZona blogger subscribes to The Mormon Daily News Report. Retrieved from the inbox just now a piece about Jeff Flake and you, dear reader, can judge how Mormons interpret the news written by others in the media by truncating the real headline in the original published piece The Mormons Could've Saved Us (Huffington Post)
The Huffington Post looks at fellow Mormon Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and his continued spotlight as one of the few Republicans speaking out against the Trump organization. Contributor Jason P. Steed writes "Flake is a Mormon (a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Mormons have largely voted Republican since the 1970s.
Typically, they vote for the Republican presidential candidate at a rate of roughly 75 percent — and that rate spiked to 85 percent when Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012. (Romney’s a Mormon too.) But Mormons didn’t like Trump in 2016. Romney spoke out forcefully against Trump’s candidacy in March. Evan McMullin (also Mormon) launched an anti-Trump third-party bid for the presidency. The New Yorker credited Mormons for saving the Never Trump movement. And some polls showed Trump might lose Utah (the most Mormon-heavy state) — which hasn’t been purple since 1968." Steed's position is interesting - "What if prominent Mormon Republicans like Flake and Romney had gotten serious about their opposition to Trump?" In essence, Steed gives Flake credit for standing up to Trump and putting party loyalties aside, but wishes he would have done more. HUH? Here is a link to the real article with this actual headline title
Jeff Flake Could've Saved Us. He Didn't. | HuffPost
1 day ago - Prominent Mormon Republicans like Flake and Mitt Romney could have paved the way for Trump’s defeat. ... Flake is a Mormon (a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). ... And, of course, Romney and Flake could’ve persuaded many non-Mormon Republicans to stop Trump
1 day ago - Conscience of a Conservative was written in secret. Until late last week it was kept under wraps by Flake's publisher, Random House, because
20 hours ago - The son of the man who ghost-wrote the original Conscience of a Conservative for Barry Goldwater criticized Sen. Jeff. Flake, R-Ariz., for writing
Just to be fair and balanced, your MesaZona blogger subscribes to alt-left Breitbart News with yet another piece about Arizona Senator Jeff Flake who's captured in this image getting-down for looks like a selfie foto op Unpopular Sen. Jeff Flake Attacks President Trump While Pushing His New Book byAdam Shaw 31.07.2017 Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), one of the most unpopular senators in the country, launched an astonishing attack on President Trump Monday in an article for liberal Politico, where he also accuses the Republican Party of being “in denial” about the president — all while promoting his new book. In the piece, “My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump,” Flake accuses Trump of offering “oversimplified answers to infinitely complex questions” but blames conservatives for his rise. . . Flake hearkens back to a time when Democrats and Republicans were allegedly united by a bipartisan spirit and “felt an institutional loyalty that would frequently create bonds across party lines in defense of congressional prerogatives in a unified front against the White House, regardless of the president’s party.”
The piece, which is excerpted from Flake’s new book, Conscience of a Conservative (apparently deliberately borrowing from the title of a book by failed 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater), blames “the internet and our growing alienation from each other” as some of the reasons why that bipartisan spirit has been lost. He then says the “Faustian bargain” that conservatives made by getting behind Trump is “not worth it.”It is unclear how well Flake’s new title will sell. Flake has a favorability rating of only 37 percent in Arizona, making him one of the most unpopular senators in the country, and his thin 140 page book will set you back a painful $27. Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY READ MORE Link > http://www.breitbart.com
Probably any image could have been selected to start off first for this post, but this for some unexplained reason caught the attention of your MesaZona blogger. Notice who endorses who in this close contest for Arizona State Senate, District 25 Republican Primary in 2014. Bob Worsley beat Ralph Heap by 1,646 votes out of 29,300 cast and went on to win the General Election by 70.5%.
Two years before, Worsley won election in the 2012 election for Arizona State Senate District 25 defeating former ArizonaSenate PresidentRussell Pearce in the Republican primary by 3,666 votes out of 30,734, winning in the general election with 66.6% of votes. In the general election held on November 8, 2016, incumbent Bob Worsley ran unopposed in the Arizona State Senate District 25 general election winning with 100% of 69,914 votes to bolster the LDS control of the AZ State Legislature.
Apparently, he's now answering "a higher calling" to continue the mission to expand the legacy of The Mormon Pioneers for a New Zion - complete with plans for a Mesa version of Temple Square in Salt Lake City and a choir hall of sorts.
Still working on ways to finance that, the hive in Mesa politics is buzzing all the way from elected public office in the Arizona State Capitol to Mesa City Hall in fields of schemes for real estate development right here in downtown, where politician State Senator Bob Worsley, who first approached the city as un-named "private developer" and got the Mesa City Council to approve a Memorandum of Understanding, registering a new corporate LLC just six days before, for a proposed project atop a parking lot after quietly buying 29-35 W Main Street [and at least 8 other properties] in undisclosed deals to control the downtown real estate market when sellers agreed to a price of around $100/square feet. The new LLC named MACDevco, together with an associated entity called "Ranches of America' lists their 5,300+ sq ft home in the citrus groves on N Val Vista Drive here in northeast Mesa as the business address.
This image to the right of the proposed project, located behind public charter school Heritage Academy [in the dark spot at the center], across Drew Street, might be built on top of a 103-space parking lot with a footprint of less than an acre of land. It is currently being used as free parking for customers and employees of six businesses fronting on the south side of Main Street between Drew Street and MacDonald. Located within 300 feet of a school, it could be problematical to apply for a liquor license on the premises. Plans also call for 'a food hall', a hotel with 75 rooms, and 75 "above-market rate" apartments . . .
Arizona State Senator Bob Worsley and Kent Lyons are partners in the development, described by an AZ Central reporter as "a subsidiary of Habitat Metro" http://www.azcentral.com
