Close to Home: A vibrant community starts with housing

At Generation Housing, we envision vibrant communities where everyone can contribute to an equitable, healthy and resilient North Bay. This begins with homes.

But housing costs and housing scarcity have made homeownership elusive and are causing families to forgo health care, increasing communitywide stress, stifling the local economy and forcing some out of the region altogether.

Dismal housing statistics aren’t just numbers — they represent real people. At our Housing Champions event at Mitote food park in Santa Rosa, a conversation with two servers validated our sense of urgency. Each had stories of friends and family members relocating to Texas. And they want to stay in Sonoma County but feel the pull of a place where life could be a little easier, and even “una mansión” is possible.

Read the full Close to Home here.