by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Mar 24, 2020 | Housing News
“City staff have brought together a number of aggressive policies to address time, certainty, and the cost of housing production – and received unanimous political support. We’ve stepped up and tried to address some of the challenges.. but there’s still a...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Mar 4, 2020 | Housing News
Santa Rosa leaders have unanimously approved the city’s largest housing project of its kind, an ambitious $123 million downtown complex with 126 apartments for low-income renters and shelter space for up to 210 homeless people. Read the article
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 20, 2020 | Housing News
“Building affordable housing in California costs on average three times as much as Texas or Illinois, according to the federal government.” Read the article
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 9, 2020 | Housing News
Dear Governor Newsom and Treasurer Ma: In one night in October 2017, the City of Santa Rosa lost five percent of its housing stock to the Tubbs Fire. By the end of that week, Sonoma County had lost 5,300 homes to the Sonoma Complex wildfires. Less than a year later,...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 7, 2020 | Housing News
Under pressure from fire survivors and elected officials, California Treasurer Fiona Ma said Friday that $100 million in new federal tax credits will be used as intended to pay for housing projects in 13 counties — including Sonoma County — that suffered devastation...
