Lack of Workforce housing costs … real money 68,000 of Marin’s workforce go home to other counties. So do their paychecks. More than half of Marin’s workers make less than $40,000 per year; they can’t afford to live here. They earn their money in Marin, but they spend it where they live–somewhere else. A 2011…
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….
Marin County is in a housing crisis. Almost 27,000 lower income Marin households spend more than 30% of their income on housing, including over 2,000 seniors who live below the poverty line. Every day, almost 68,000 people commute from other counties to work here. More than 2/3rds of these workers earn less than $61,000 per year, far below the…
Before the 1980s, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development covered almost all the costs of maintaining public housing. HUD has since radically reduced funding for that purpose across the nation, forcing local housing authorities to become entrepreneurial. HUD now provides only $500,000 per year to maintain the six properties — almost 500 housing…
Hello Everyone, It’s Official! Come celebrate with us! Congressman Jared Huffman and Supervisor Steve Kinsey will be in town this Friday, February 5th for a press conference & reception to celebrate the official signing of the legislation that directs that the Pt. Reyes Coast Guard site be used for affordable homes. We hope you will join us for a reception at…
To the Editor: Roland Katz, Executive Director of MAPE, makes an important point in his November 3 Marin Voice: the on-going debate concerning the salaries paid to some of the higher level county government staff ignores the impact of Marin’s housing crisis on most of our public employees and many others in Marin. The Marin…
By Steven Saxe and Colin Russell,Posted: 11/06/15, 10:52 AM PST | Updated: on 11/06/2015 16 Comments The Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative supports Whistlestop’s Mission Plaza senior housing project. Whistlestop, the largest nonprofit serving older adults in Marin County, has provided a full range of services and activities at the former Southern Pacific depot in downtown…
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