For most families, child care and housing are the two biggest expenses in the budget – and in many communities it can be a struggle to find affordable options. That’s why LIIF prioritizes “co-location” projects that include both affordable housing units and affordable child care facilities under the same roof.
Last week, LIIF Senior Vice President, National ECE Angie Garling and ECE Policy and Program Manager, California Esmeralda Martin-Singh joined Build Up CA for a site visit at a newly constructed child care center co-located at Tamien Station in San Jose, California. This nearly complete, transit-oriented affordable housing development partnered with SJB Child Development Centers as a supply-building solution for both child care and affordable housing shortages.
Joining us on the tour was California Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, staff of San Jose Councilmember Pamela Campos and Build Up CA Advisory Board member Matthew Tinsley, who got a firsthand look at how co-location can create pathways of opportunity for communities in need.
Relatedly, we were thrilled last week to see Governor Newsom sign AB 752 into law, which will expand access to child care by facilitating more developments like this one. As LIIF’s ECE Vice President, Advisory and State Policy Shelly Masur stated in this New Break article, AB 752 “makes this vision more possible by streamlining the work multi-family housing developers and child care providers are doing together.”
LIIF prioritizes “co-location” projects that include both affordable housing units and affordable child care facilities under the same roof.