The housing shortage in Sonoma Valley requires “ground trooping,” according to Calum Weeks, policy director of Generation Housing, where local sympathizers seek and identify the best place for new housing elements to be developed.
However, Sonoma Vice Mayor Kelso Barnett said that housing scarcity in Sonoma Valley is not something that can be addressed as simply as creating more housing.
“Many of the factors and drivers that influence supply and demand are just beyond the ability of the city of Sonoma or Sonoma Valley to control. And this isn’t just a council things and just how the city council is currently composed. You could have five Logan Harvey’s on city council, and that still wouldn’t happen,” Barnett said, referring to Sonoma’s housing-focused former council member.
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