Tagged With "housing"

By Chantelle Lee, June 25, 2020, Press Democrat. Nearly $26 million in state grant money was approved Thursday to fund several projects in Sonoma County, including new affordable housing in Roseland and an extension to the SMART system. The $25.8 million grant package was awarded to the city of Santa Rosa, SMART and Bay Area affordable housing developer MidPen Housing by the California Strategic Growth Council, a state agency focused on affordable housing and transportation. The state grant...

Such financing is necessary. After all, this grant will go to a common and very important cause. The construction of affordable housing is always relevant for many people. I understand how important this is because I faced some problems when applying for a loan for housing. I have a bad experience with this. Now I prefer not to take out a loan, and if there is a very urgent need, then I choose only trusted sources. I recently completed an application for payday loans online in Alabama and...

By Jonathan Greenberg, December 11, 2021, Sonoma Independent. Hypocritical campaign targeting affordable trailers & tiny homes creates more homeless people than county government creates housing for A three month long investigation initiated by Sonoma Independent, the award-winning public interest solutions and advocacy website, reveals that Permit Sonoma ordered property owners to vacate 189 inhabited dwellings between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021. These citations, enforced by...

My friend is one of the people impacted by this, though she is fighting eviction. On top of all the other awfulness about this, is evictions taking place because of composting toilets in tiny homes. When in truth, composting toilets are a sustainable way to return our excrement to the living soil instead of wasting water dumping it into sewage. See their petition: https://www.change.org/p/sonom...ec-a8ec-dfe67e010ac7

Thanks for the information. The number of cities, counties and counties with plans to build affordable housing is still growing, more and more people are being displaced or out of their homes, often at extreme cost to families and the economy. In many large American cities, such a displacement seems inevitable. In cities where zoning rules don't apply to affordable housing units, at least 1 in 5 renters are a part-time employed or on a part-time student job, making housing insecurity far...