by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Jul 23, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
Runaway single-family house prices have put homeownership further out of reach for many locals. Before the pandemic began last year, an estimated 51% of Sonoma County adult residents paid more than 30% of their gross monthly income on housing, the federal barometer to...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Jul 22, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
Without enough money to pay for rent, workers are forced to live in overcrowded housing, commute from more affordable areas or forego medical and dental care or other necessities, said Jenni Klose, executive director of Generation Housing. Even residents who earn...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Jun 11, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
It raises the question: Has the imbalanced local home sales market, in which only 27% of county residents can now afford the median priced house, finally reached a tipping point? To Jenni Klose, executive director of Generation Housing, an independent housing advocacy...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Apr 14, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
Sonoma County’s vibrant housing market turned red-hot through the first three months of 2021 as a rush of Bay Area residents continued to flee dense urban areas for Wine Country during the pandemic, sending the county’s median home price to an all-time high in March....
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Mar 27, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
Santa Rosa is nurturing a $699 million affordable housing pipeline that could lead to the development of more than 1,200 new homes, including about 950 in the next few years. While that reflects the creation of homes for a small town’s worth of people, only four of 18...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Jan 28, 2021 | Generation Housing - In The News
Our Communications Coordinator, Melissa Gomez, speaks with Rafael Vázquez from Lideres del Futuro about a Generation Housing and about our Public Will Building Campaign. Listen to the full interview here.