End housing insecurity and grow the cities so Santa Cruz County is welcome to its workers, families, and friends. #EndApartmentBans #ShareTheCities
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Santa Cruz has been called the leftmost city, but that phrase is questionable when it comes to our local housing politics. lookout.co/santa-cruz-mayora…
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Not surprising because SC remains the least affordable small city in the country. We are now multiple decades into a housing shortage, and county-wide, continue to be falling short of our housing production goals.
Santa Cruz, hit hard by the affordability crisis, recently saw one of the largest population decreases in the country, @DanielleEchev reports sfchronicle.com/california/a…
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Just last month, we reported that every jurisdiction in Santa Cruz County is falling short of meeting at least one housing production goal in our current housing plan. twitter-thread.com/t/2041555…
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It’s time for our annual Santa Cruz County housing progress roundup, Here’s a graph of the county-wide housing pace broken down by income level. The green bars are the RHNA targets and the gold is how many units we would build by 2031 if we keep up our current pace of production.
Jurisdictions should start by making base zoning viable: more height, more units, less parking, and by-right approvals. Projects shouldn’t need Density Bonus just to make basic math work.
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Santa Cruz YIMBY retweeted
Housing Element comment to @VisitCarmel. The City is amending its Housing Element to avoid developing 100% affordable housing on City-owned sites. Carmel-by-the-Sea is 87% White and only 6% Latino, whereas Monterey County is 27% White and 60% Latino.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Zem…
Yesterday the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted to pursue a long-shot strategy to kill pending Builder’s Remedy housing projects in the county. Their plan: ask the state to backdate the county’s housing element compliance date again—almost 2 years after the fact🧵