“Unless you’re making a lot of money right now you can’t afford a house in this country,” Senator Jon Tester said at a recent hearing. He represents the state of Montana where now home prices and rents have been rising dramatically too. We’ve got businesses that can’t expand because there’s no workforce housing,” Tester continued. “There’s no housing for people who make regular wages ok?”
Salomon works as a foreman at Grgich Hills Estate in Rutherford, so commuting from his current address in Middletown to his full-time job in addition to the commitment of this project intimidated him at first.
“It was nerve-wracking,” Salomon said. “I am required to put in 32 hours a week and it is just me.”
Rather than building one affordable housing complex along 79th Street, developers will, instead, split the project in two. One building is slated for 79th and Green, and the other on 79th and Halsted. There will be space allocated for parking and retail space will be available on the first floor.
A year of Covid means that we’ve learned to work, shop, learn and recreate virtually. The result is empty office buildings, hotels and malls. We desperately need more housing, especially affordable housing, so it’s only logical to convert those empty structures into housing. But zoning laws are standing in the way of making an easy building conversion.
The Bay Area needs more than 160,000 additional homes to house its poorest residents, according to a report published Thursday that offers new insight into the extent of the region’s ongoing affordable housing crisis. The massive housing shortage spans Bay Area counties, but is worse in the South Bay There Read more…