While most Santa Cruz County non-profits catering to the unsheltered population aim to create permanent housing solutions, Brent Adams’ Footbridge Services Center fulfills more immediate needs like shower and laundry services, storage facilities and more.
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State Assembly passes bills allowing for increased density on single-family lots
The two bills — which advocates say would help create more affordable housing statewide — were approved this week in the California State Assembly. The California State Senate will vote on the measures before they go to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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How sports arenas became the poster child for California’s housing crisis
To help alleviate the state’s housing shortage, California recently began tracking publicly owned lots that could be turned into affordable homes. In its first year, the state housing agency has cited two major sports arenas — Angel Stadium in Anaheim and Pechanga Arena in San Diego — for cutting backroom development deals with developers that shortchanged the public on affordable units. The agency is now investigating Oakland Coliseum in Oakland.
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California’s housing crisis: How much difference will a zoning bill make?
YIMBYs and NIMBYs are battling over legislation to allow more duplexes, but some experts downplay its impact on California housing. The bill backed by Senate leader Toni Atkins made it through the Assembly Appropriations Committee today and will face a floor vote in coming weeks.
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Showdown looms in Sacramento over plan to split some single-family lots for more homes
In another attempt to tackle California’s housing crisis, lawmakers will debate ‘duplex bill,’ which would allow some single-family lots to be split.
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Santa Cruz home prices rebound in July, still below record-breaking May
The median price of 188 single-family homes sold countywide in July climbed to $1,192,000 — 5% higher than in June but still below the all-time high of $1.3 million recorded in May. Overall, median single-family home prices in the county have increased approximately 18% year over year.
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‘It’s just too big’: 831 Water Street development draws massive amount of public comment
The current proposal is for two buildings at four and five stories, with 149 units on 19,033 square feet. Some nearby neighbors say putting a 60-foot building so close to 20-foot homes is “not neighborly.” A city council meeting on Sept. 14 will allow more discourse about the main concerns: shade, density, traffic and water.
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Seeing ‘What’s already here’: Santa Cruz YIMBY group’s ‘missing middle’ tour points to past for solutions
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.
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Boulder Creek home ravaged by deadly fire now on the market — and being sold as is
The three-bedroom, one-bathroom property on Highway 9 billed as a “contractor special” is listed at $178,000 — and will come with a wealth of uncertainties in the wake of a blaze that killed its previous occupant.