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Kate Conley, principal at Architects FORA, gives testimony at California State Assembly — ‘It’s not tenable’: California bill aims to erase permits delays that hold up housing projects

San Francisco Chronicle / Dustin Gardiner / April 2022

Orchard Gardens Rendering — Santa Clara County leaders approve $75.5M to build six new affordable housing projects

KRON / Omar Perez / Feb. 2022

Leigh Avenue Senior Apartments Street View Night — Leigh Avenue Becomes First TECH Fund-Backed Affordable Housing to Open its Doors

Housing Trust Silicon Valley / Nov. 2021

Leigh Avenue Senior Apartments Elevation View Evening — Structures Awards: Leigh Avenue

Silicon Valley Business Journal / Lynn Peithman Stock / Sept. 2021

Leigh Avenue Courtyard — San Jose Development Serves Vulnerable Seniors

Affordable Housing Finance / Donna Kimura / July 2021

Woman with arms crossed in yellow sweater, architectural backdrop is white with wavy floor plates — A year of challenge, and opportunity, driving change for women architects

American Institute of Architects / Jane Blake / April 2021

conceptual drawing of two people conversating - trees as the silhouette of their heads to represent neurological network of brain, one is thinking, one is speaking. — The 5 People You Should Know When Buying an Architecture Firm

Women in Architecture / AIA Silicon Valley / Kate Conley / March 2021

Front rendering of Mitchell Park — This new housing project in Palo Alto is aimed at people with developmental and intellectual disabilities

Mercury News / Aldo Toledo / March 2022

Plans to develop more than 300 affordable South Bay homes advance

Mercury News / George Avalos / Feb. 2022

Auzerais Street Perspective — Eden Housing’s Auzerais Apartments – aided by TECH Fund – Celebrates Groundbreaking in San Jose

Housing Trust Silicon Valley / Dec. 2021

Affordable homes near downtown San Jose’s Google village push ahead with loan

Silicon Valley / George Avolos / Oct. 2021

Mitchell Park Place Palo Alto Sketchy Rendering for City Council — City Council lauds affordable housing plan next to Mitchell Park

Palo Alto Weekly / Gennedy Sheyner / Sept. 2021

Leigh Ave garden beds in construction — New Deeply Affordable Homes Coming to Santa Clara County

Destination: Home / May 2021

North-San Pedro Studios Iamesi Village rendering — First Community Housing Is Developing Housing For Homeless And Veterans At 201 Bassett Street, San Jose

SF Yimby / Palak Japlot / March 2021

Sarah Vaccaro, Leah Bayer, Kate Conley headshots - new owners of OJK Architecture + Planning — OJK Architecture + Planning Announces New Ownership

BizJournals / Leah Bayer / Feb. 2021

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Planters are taking shape at Iamesi Village

The kind of photos we LOVE to get from a contractor: Scaffolding is down and rainscreen panels are going up at our Iamesi Village project in downtown San Jose.

Walking our Iamesi Village site with our great clients and contractor.

Read the @primaverarch interview with OJK's own Designer and Technology Lead, @victoria_lee_via . She touches on art, humanity, community, and advocacy in her exploration of what it means to her to design affordable housing.

OJK wishes you all a Happy Pride Month!

🚨 Scaffolding Drop Day 🚨 Revaling our metal-clad fin walls at Iamesi Village

Sustainability takes center stage at Leigh Avenue, opening soon! Solar arrays and drought tolerant plants are just two of the many ways this project will conserve resources for decades to come.

Exhibit A in the case against Single Family Zoning #affordablehousingmonth

Our team is continuing our education on racial inequity in home ownership due directly to decades of federal policy barring Black and Brown families from home ownership. A great reminder that our projects are attempts at correcting a deeply unjust sy

Thanks to @clara.rice.photo, we interrupt this Affordable Housing Month content to bring you new a new partners portrait. Thanks for helping us look our best, Clara!

The vast majority of extremely low-income renters work in low-wage jobs or are unable to work. Even for those who are employed, twelve of the twenty largest occupations in the country, including home health aides, janitors, and food servers, provide

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