It’s Affordable Housing Month - check out our featured events, housing element updates and more news

A look back to 2022 and ahead to 2023

Our voting guide and legislative status halfway through the session.

How can we influence the process so Housing Elements address the injustices of housing policies and decisions, result in affordable housing in high-resource neighborhoods, avoid displacement in lower-income neighborhoods, increase overall supply and provide the variety of needed housing types for all income levels?

May is Affordable Housing Month!

Our Downtown, Our Future initiative does not support affordable housing.

Our bright spots from 2021 and looking ahead to 2022.

Santa Cruz YIMBY Lead Elizabeth Conlan joins Emily Ham, Kate Roberts, and Casey Beyer to highlight the missed opportunity to further affordable housing due to politics and subjective decision-making.

Let’s celebrate lots of housing legislation being signed into law, take a look at housing news ALL around the county and note the RHND!

The Santa Cruz City Council SHOULD NOT be the approval body for SB 35 and related applications.

Leaders from the Santa Cruz YIMBY chapter led a group on an hourlong tour of homes along the city’s downtown grid that represent what they believe is an important missing piece to the affordability crisis. And they believe it could return with the passage of Senate Bill 9.

Downtown Santa Cruz has lots of examples of “missing middle” housing. These buildings in our community represent a range of housing options beyond the single detached house & mid-rise apartment.

What is a YIMBY? What do these “missing middle” edifices look like? How might new versions of them fit into the local housing situation? And what are the legal challenges facing their development? Lookout takes a look in advance of Wednesday downtown tour.

It’s Affordable Housing Month and let’s look at Housing Elements….

In early March, the city of Santa Cruz got word that it had scored $5 million from the competitive federal Local Housing Trust Fund (LHTF), which is administered by the State Housing and Community Development department. It was part of $57 million in competitive grants doled out statewide.