The Watsonville City Council will vote on an affordable housing project on Airport Road led by Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay at its next meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The project will include 13 homes–11 three bedroom homes and two two-bedroom homes.
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City of Santa Cruz rebuts criticism of how it tracks affordable housing
The Santa Cruz City Council’s responses to the civil grand jury’s affordable housing report show that it largely disagrees with the government watchdog body’s assessment of the city’s handling of its affordable housing stock, but added that the majority of its recommendations have already been implemented.
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Building affordable rentals is great – but Santa Cruz needs affordable homes for purchase, too
Santa Cruz County is doing a good job of building rental units, but it’s not building enough affordable homes for people to buy, writes Shiri Gradek, a serial renter who pays 55% of her salary to rent. She wants this to change. Prioritizing only rentals, she says, doesn’t build equity or wealth for a community. It feeds landlords and developers and contributes to the dismantling of the middle class.
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Santa Cruz City Council will study grand jury reports on handling of rape, housing
The Santa Cruz City Council has deferred its response to two recent grand jury investigations criticizing the city’s handling of rape cases and affordable housing. Though Mayor Fred Keeley initially disagreed with many of the findings, the council decided to form a subcommittee to provide a more comprehensive response.