MEHC’s partner organization, the Multicultural Center of Marin, led by MEHC Board member Douglas Mundo, has been re-funded to continue its Canal Community Resilience Council (CCRC) project for another year, through mid-2021. MEHC is pleased to be able to continue to provide technical support on this project. The CCRC is intended to build community resilience…
Like climate change, a pandemic disproportionately impacts low-income communities, even in Marin. Insufficient affordable housing and consequent crowding, unhealthy environmental conditions like poor air quality and flooding, low wages and inadequate access to healthcare and nutritious food all contribute to making low-income Marin residents particularly vulnerable in a crisis. It’s even worse in immigrant communities…
Recent State housing legislation, including Senate Bill 35, Senate Bill 330 and the Housing Accountability Act (HAA,) have established mandates for cities, towns and counties to streamline the review process for multi-family housing projects and use objective standards to review projects. As a result, Marin has embarked on a multi-jurisdictional effort to update and expand…
By WILL HOUSTON | whouston@marinij.com | PUBLISHED: December 18, 2019 at 5:58 pm | UPDATED: December 19, 2019 at 6:56 am Marin Independent Journal The Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors voted unanimously this week to adopt rate and fee reductions for existing in-law units to promote affordable housing development under state law. Several residents turned out to the board meeting…
Considering Marin’s resistance to new development, you might be surprised to learn that Marin scored the highest among Bay Area counties in meeting last year’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goals according to a recent report, Missing the Mark. RHNA is a statewide program that calculates how much housing each local jurisdiction needs to build, by…
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…