For VTA workers, living in Santa Clara County might become a reality in the future due to a unique piece of state legislation.
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a bill co-authored by Silicon Valley Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Patrick Ahrens that gives VTA employees preference to buy or rent an affordable home built on the public transit agency’s land.
Jessie O’Malley Solis, VTA director of multimodal planning and real estate, said of the 10,000 units VTA is building, 4,000 will be affordable housing. She said in VTA’s employee survey, 94% of respondents expressed interest in employee housing…