Housing advocates’ push to ease affordable housing fees in Sonoma County faces early hurdles, gains some support | Press Democrat

The nonprofit affordable housing advocate known as Generation Housing pitched the idea of drastically reducing housing development fees to city councils in Windsor and Santa Rosa this month with mixed results.

The group’s argument is that the so-called impact fees developers are assessed for each unit of housing they build — often tens of thousands of dollars per unit — combined with other building costs, hamper the development of affordable housing.

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