The Plan For More Affordable Housing: Influencing the Housing Element Process
Right now, the four cities and county of Santa Cruz are working on the most important affordable housing policy that our local governments will produce in a generation: the 6th Cycle Housing Element. 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?
Check out the webinar from May 2022 with Don Lane of Housing Santa Cruz County, Diana Alfaro of Housing Santa Cruz County and MidPen Housing, Elizabeth Madrigal of Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP), Tom Stagg of Housing Matters, Jan Lindenthal of MidPen Housing, Rafa Sonnenfeld of YIMBY Law and special guest, City of Santa Cruz Mayor Sonja Brunner.
Slides from the webinar (partial):
Housing Elements - Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (Elizabeth Madrigal, MBEP)
Santa Cruz County: Intro to Fair Housing Elements (Rafa Sonnenfeld, YIMBY Law/Santa Cruz YIMBY)