Thursday, June 9, 2022

HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COSTS vs. INCOMES SONOMA COUNTY and CALIFORNIA 2000 - 2022

 


Greetings!


This afternoon, the City of Santa Rosa will be presenting at a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the Housing Authority a report it has prepared on the current condition of housing in the City, and what it plans on doing to meet the housing needs of its residents going forward.  At the meeting, I plan on congratulating the City for its report, and for its continued attempts to provide affordable housing. 

Here is a link to the Santa Rosa Draft Housing Element.

I also plan to mention an excellent report prepared by John Lowry, who served as the Executive Director of Burbank Housing Development Corporation.  Burbank has produced a great number of the low income houses in the City, with funding from a variety of governmental sources.  His excellent report details why it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so, and what needs to be done to reverse that trend.

Here is a link to that paper.