This is great news. Thank you MidPen Housing Corp! Do you have any other housing opportunities planned in Menlo Park?

@Dana,
I believe that Facebook has an agreement with MidPen to build additional housing with the 6.5M Facebook committed to housing as part of the next stage of Bayshore development:

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Five people in a 2 bedroom apartment is a lot. Is that number correct? Whether that number is correct or not, senior low-income housing often brings their adult children and grandchildren whatever the restrictions. A neighbor of my sister's rented out their house as low-income senior housing, but the property is heavily used by adults of working age. During the warmer weather,adult males of working age would be drinking on the lawn at 11:00a.m. on a weekday. The property gets rented as low-income because of the one senior, but you get their adult children and their adult children friends, who don't work. Thanks for the property devaluation neighbor. Senior housing restrictions should be tighter about who and how many adults and children under 18 can be living in a complex. These restrictions should also be enforced.

Instead of throwing a fit about people gaming a bad system (housing set-asides for 'special' groups), how about we work towards fixing the Peninsula-wide supply and demand imbalance?

The people who get these apartments are essentially lottery winners. We're creating winners and losers due to the truly insane level of under-building over the last few decades, and the only reasonable longer term fix is to build more housing.

Your property values may slow down if there's enough supply, but the alternative is worse.

@MP Resident

I agree with you that we need to fix the supply-demand imbalance by drastically increasing the supply. However, I don't see the Bay Area ever solving this problem. This is a fundamental case of tragedy of the commons. No municipality wants to add more housing, especially dense and lower income housing. It would put pressure on congestion, the schools, and city services without adding the same percentage to the tax base.

This small smattering of low-income housing is enough so that the politicians look good for doing "something" without having to deal with actually solving the problem.