Housing Action Plan
You have POWER
When you join us, you’re not just lending your voice; you’re amplifying a collective call for a brighter, more equitable future. You’re affirming that everyone deserves a place to call home, where they can contribute to an equitable, healthy, and resilient North Bay. It’s a future we can all be part of, and it starts with you.
HAP Dashboard
Generation Housing is evaluating local housing polices based on the criteria of our Housing Action Plan. The criteria are described below.
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Zone for People
End exclusionary zoning by 2024. Create more diverse and more affordable housing by allowing up to 4-plex housing in single-family zones and expand zoning for Missing Middle small apartment complexes. This also empowers homeowners to maximize the value of their property, and takes a step toward righting the wrong of decades of discriminatory zoning practices.
Fast and Fair
Streamline housing development by integrating Design Review Boards into Planning Commissions. This accelerates housing projects while still ensuring transparency and accountability in decision-making.
Incentivize Affordability
Support near-term construction of Affordable and affordable-by-design workforce housing by right sizing fees and adopting fees based on square footage. This is an imperative offset to current economic forces making development financially infeasible.
People & Planet over Parking
Let developers and their tenants make climate-smart decisions on parking needs by eliminating costly and heavy-handed parking mandates. This promotes a more sustainable approach to housing without passing on additional costs to residents.
Together, we can make the dream of affordable, diverse, and sustainable housing a reality for our community.
Your voice matters. Your voice has power.
Don’t let this moment pass—
Join us in shaping the North Bay of tomorrow.
