Why Bother, Indeed. Today, Marin is in a severe housing crisis. Fully 96% of our housing is market-rate; this means that households with only moderate income can afford to live in only 4% of our housing units, and only 3% of our homes and apartments are within the affordability reach of lower income folks. In the past 12 months, the median price…
Housing doesn’t generate traffic, jobs do Almost 5,000 people commute from Solano County into Marin for work. Over 15,000 come from Sonoma County, and 2,300 from Sacramento. In 2014 there were around 110,000 jobs in Marin. Almost 2/3 of this workforce – 68,000 people – commuted here from other counties*. Roughly 35,000 in-commuters travel at least 50…
Marin isn’t ready to grow old We are completely unprepared to meet the housing needs of the fastest growing group in our community –- seniors. Today, only two affordable senior housing projects are in the planning stage:Peace Village in Fairfax andWhistlestop in San Rafael. Even if both are completed as currently proposed within the next 2-5 years, we would…
The lack of it hurts everyone Most people who work in Marin don’t live here. This trend has been going on since the early 2000s and it’s getting worse. In 2003 there were approximately 102,000 jobs in Marin. Over 56,000 of those jobs — 55% — were held by workers who commuted from other counties….
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…