Housing to meet the needed Sonoma County workforce in the future will require building at least 58,000 units by 2030, according to experts at a business conference Wednesday.
It is “a big challenge, but it’s doable,” said Generation Housing Executive Director Jen Klose. That is, “only if” the community supports the monumental task “instead of coming out against it.”
Klose was a panelist at Impact Sonoma, a business conference evaluating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the local economy. It was hosted by the North Bay Business Journal.
The need for affordable housing is punctuated by another finding from Generation Housing that workers in the most common jobs in Sonoma County can only make ends meet if that housing is under $1,000 in rent per month.
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