Sonoma County has significantly too little housing to meet its needs, making life a lot harder for residents, contributing to persistent inequities that span race, family size and income, and painting a worrisome portrait of the future, a new report finds.
That’s largely because housing production hasn’t kept up with population trends for more than 20 years, and also because of a historical emphasis on zoning for single-family home construction, according to the findings of the 2023 State of Housing in Sonoma County.
This report, which will be officially released today, was produced by North Bay research and advocacy group Generation Housing. It aims to inform and shape an ongoing urgent discussion about how to ease the housing crunch in Sonoma County.
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