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Mariposa Club Apartments, an affordable rental housing project located at 660 Mariposa Ave. in Mountain View, is currently accepting waiting list applications for two- and one-bedroom apartments as well as studios.
The Mariposa Club apartment complex was made into affordable housing as part of an agreement between the city of Mountain View and Prometheus, which bills itself as the largest private owner of multifamily properties in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“They (Prometheus) were working on a complex on Villa Street not too far away that is a mostly market rate project, with a small number of onsite affordable units,” Mountain View Mayor Lucas Ramirez told the Voice. “What Prometheus offered was, instead of providing inclusionary housing as part of the market rate project on Villa, they proposed to deed restrict Mariposa to provide those units as affordable in perpetuity.”
The proposal came at a time when the city was contending with a number of redevelopment proposals that would require demolishing existing, naturally affordable apartments, Ramirez said.
Through an agreement with local affordable housing nonprofit Alta Housing, Prometheus maintains ownership of the building and Alta manages the low-income housing.
Anyone interested in applying to live at the Mariposa Club Apartments must fill out an Alta Housing application, signed by all adult household members, and return the application to the leasing office located at 660 Mariposa Ave. by or before 4 p.m. on Oct. 31. Priority will be given to applicants who live or work in Mountain View.
Find the application in Spanish here.
First this is a WAIT LIST, who knows how long Alta will take to deal with this!!!
This is a bizarre ADVERTISEMENT to sell units form Prometheus, the group that has attacked the City of Mountain view citizens for supporting and enacting the CSFRA. In fact Prometheus was a fund source for the failed CAA and Landlords attempt to dismantle key protections under the CSFRA with FALSE advertising.
Remember the initiative that was started by John Inks and the CAA? They spent $250,000 to get signatures to get their ballot for the election in November 2018 but failed. They decided to roll it over for the November 2020 election. BUT Measure D which the City offered a watered down version went down with a 2 to 1 voting result in the Spring 2020 vote. So, these people pulled their ballot measure from the election, a waste of that money.
In fact this story indicates that the City of Mountain View was working to provide Prometheus with subsidies and other benefits paid by the City of Mountain View to make Prometheus a very powerful manipulator of policies in the city and county.
This kind of housing may be to some benefit. BUT I argue that no one should apply for it because this is exactly the kind of corruption that makes the market NEVER achieve enough affordable housing. In fact I can imagine it will be a TRAP that people will be selected based on political influence and not actual needs.
Of course Prometheus will argue their selection criteria is a TRADE SECRET and thus will not disclose the methods used.
Finally, what this is really about is that Prometheus originally built this complex to market rate expectations, and the current market clearly is not providing them with enough occupancy to operate it at this time. This is WHY the City got involved, they are PROTECTING Prometheus for running a failed project and looking to have the City of Mountain view BAIL THEM OUT.
NO ONE SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THIS SITUATION!!!
Just understand this critical part of the story:
This is applications for a WAIT LIST, who knows how long these applications will take to be processed and whether anyone will actually be provided any housing in this situation.
This is a very cruel article because as we all know it can take years for wait lists to actually provide housing. There is no mention of how long it will take to get approval or be allowed to move in. This appears to be a rather disingenuous promise from Prometheus and its intent.
In fact this is an attempt to get a new housing project approved, where they will REVERSE their actions after the fact. Of just claim they didn’t get any applicants that qualify for their standards of entry.
This is so smart, affordable housing! Let’s make everything affordable! What are we waiting for??
What people do not understand until recently is that Covid is still a wildfire. The science says that every 1000 infections results in at least 1 more variant. The SCC has seen 1000 cases a day for about 2 months now. It is amazing that people think it is over. Recent news in the SF Chron and the SJ Merc is proving it is still a wildfire.
And you think this situation is going to provide either affordable housing and water? Time for people to get prepared for a VERY LONG COVID YEAR