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Marin grand jury: Housing crisis calls for collaboration | Marin Independent Journal
Marin County and its cities and towns should create a regional organization, or empower an existing authority, to coordinate efforts to create more affordable housing, according to a new civil grand jury report.
Construction starts on 90 affordable apartments in Napa | North Bay Business Jorunal
Construction is getting started on 90 affordable-housing units in two northeast Napa projects. The projects, located on 4 acres at 3700 and 3710 Valle Verde Drive, include the revamping and expanding of a shuttered assisted-housing site plus the building of apartments.
PD Editorial: Put ‘affordable’ back in housing | Press Democrat
Here in Sonoma County, building homes for low and moderate-income residents can cost as much as $700,000 a unit, The Press Democrat’s Ethan Varian reported. That is approximately 80% of the $865,000 median sales price for single-family homes in Sonoma County.
Gimme Shelter: Can California build millions of new homes amid drought? | CalMatters
On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast,” CalMatters’ Manuela Tobias and the Los Angeles Times’ Liam Dillon sit down with Ellen Hanak, director of the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, to discuss the intersection between housing growth and drought.
Are public-private partnerships key to Sonoma’s affordable housing need? | Sonoma Index-Tribune
Despite meeting the goals for the state Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) in each of the past five eight-year cycles, affordable housing for low-income individuals is still hard to come by in Sonoma, forcing residents like Brown and others in the workforce to live outside of the region or share space with other low-income renters.
There's a massive housing shortage across the U.S. Here's how bad it is where you live | NPR
Home prices are up more than 30% over the past couple of years, making homeownership unaffordable for millions of Americans. Rents are rising sharply too. The biggest culprit is this historic housing shortage. Strong demand and low supply mean higher prices.
After the passage of a contentious zoning reform law that sought to encourage ‘light infill’ in single-family neighborhoods, few California households have submitted applications to build extra units, largely due to onerous restrictions imposed by lo
Editorial: California should prioritize housing people, not cars| LATimes
California treats parking like a birthright. But that obsession with ensuring motorists can always find a parking spot sabotages more important goals, including building more housing and reducing driving.
Rising rent, teacher shortages piquing districts’ interest in workforce housing.
Somewhere along the line, the Bay Area got smaller. It became San Francisco, the East Bay, bits of Marin and the Peninsula, depending on who you’re talking to. The North Bay is regularly left out of the conversation.
Younger buyers who sunk their savings into new homes have too much to lose.
With sales of existing homes slowing, the need for more new houses is only growing. Florida, my home state, might have found part of the solution: Reform the permitting process so that building houses is easier.
How the Push for Farmworker Housing is Hindered by Persistent Myths | Good Times
While advocates look for solutions, field workers try to make a better life for their families
Trying to rent a two-bedroom, Bay Area apartment on a minimum-wage salary? You’ll need to hold down at least three full-time jobs to make it happen.
That’s the alarming conclusion from a new nationwide report that highlights the gap between what housing costs and what people earn, underscoring the affordability crisis gripping the country as a whole — and California and the Bay Area in particular.
As part of an investigation into affordable housing and the generational divide to access it, the Index-Tribune is looking for local stories from people in their early adulthood who are challenged by the current housing landscape
At a meeting of the Sonoma Planning Commission in April, commissioners were considering what, if any, alternative options to the city’s “residential housing component” – the requirement that 50% of commercial or mixed-use development proposals be built as housing – would be available to project developers.
A long-anticipated draft report released Wednesday calls for approximately 1,000 housing units — including 283 affordable units — to go along with 940 on-site jobs and a resident population of 2,400 at the site of the historic Sonoma Developmental Center near Glen Ellen.
After 18 years of public pushback, discussion and compromise, a controversial Petaluma housing project is moving forward.
Most Bay Area cities have seen their youth populations decline over the past decade, likely a consequence of the region’s increasingly staggering cost of living. But some cities have seen steeper drops in kids than others, and the cities with the fewest children and teens to begin with mostly appear to have stabilized.
After years of effort, Napa Valley College is breaking ground this month on a three-building, 588-bed student housing complex, set to open up for student use in fall 2024.
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