CA Housing Legislation Approved! Funding & objective standards support affordable housing production The California legislature has just passed and Governor Brown has signed fifteen bills to promote housing and address homelessness. Of these, Senate Bill 35 will have the greatest impact on Marin County. Background: California counties, cities and towns are required to include and regularly…
Is housing a problem? Or a solution? jobs not housing cause traffic Does your candidate think that housing is part of the traffic problem, or part of the solution? Traffic is getting worse and worse. What are the candidates for the Marin Board of Supervisors going to do about it? 62% of the people who…
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…
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…