Krissy Clark/Marketplace Thursday, June 11, 2015 – 16:34 We’re looking at the issue of affordable housing through one place where housing is not exactly affordable: Marin County, just north of San Francisco. George Lucas*, filmmaker and longtime Marin resident, says he’ll use more than $100 million to finance, entirely, 224 low-income apartments on a piece…
PD Editorial: May 10, 2015, 12:11AM 05/10/2015 The dilemma facing Sonoma County couldn’t have been presented more clearly than it was on Page 1 of Saturday’s Press Democrat. The lead story (“At summit, a call for new construction”) concerned a packed forum Friday in Petaluma on the growing crisis that North Coast residents face in finding…
BY ROBERT DIGITALE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT on May 8, 2015, 11:51AM05/08/2015 Claiming that a shortage of affordable housing is starting to hurt the local economy, North Bay business leaders were urged Friday to get involved politically to acquire financing and win regulatory approval for local workforce housing projects. Read the entire article
By Colin Russell In our continuing collaborative effort to promote more affordable housing in Marin County, a few salient facts are often overlooked by those who oppose it. California’s population is growing rapidly. Our current population exceeds 37 million, and that number is projected to grow to over 50 million by the year 2050. On…
By Cynthia Murray Marin IJ POSTED: 04/19/15, 4:57 PM PDT | UPDATED: 2 HRS AGO Growing up, my parents taught me about my responsibilities to my family, my school and my country. Taking responsibility was expected of me. Today, it appears the emphasis has shifted from people taking responsibility to demanding their rights. There is…
by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica, Oct. 29, 2012, 12 a.m.by Jeff Larson and Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica, Dec. 20 A few months after Congress passed a landmark law directing the federal government to dismantle segregation in the nation’s housing, President Nixon’s housing chief began plotting a stealth campaign. The plan, George Romney wrote in a confidential memo…
Apr 14, 2015, 5:44am PDT Cory Weinberg Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Twitter | LinkedIn Now that city officials across the Bay Area have finished crunching the numbers on the last seven years of housing supply progress, some assessment is in order. The region’s cities must calculate how its housing supply is keeping up with projected…
Marin Independent Journal, August 25, 2014 Marin Voice: We need deliberation, not political theater in Marin Steven Saxe and Colin Russell We write on behalf of the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative, a partnership that includes affordable housing, environmental and social justice advocates. MEHC works to promote public support for projects that advance affordable housing, environmental integrity…
MEHC is Perplexed with Spotswood’s take on Planning The Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative – MEHC – is a partnership of affordable housing, environmental, and social justice advocates. We are responding to Dick Spotswood’s May 4 article in which he takes on the “push” by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission…
By Ron Albert Marin Independent Journal, November 27, 2011 Guest Op-ed Column THE MARIN Environmental Housing Collaborative is a countywide partnership that includes affordable housing, environmental, neighborhood, and social justice advocates. The Environmental Housing Collaborative works collaboratively to promote public support for projects that advance affordable housing, environmental integrity and social justice. During the past…