Marin housing forum previews massive bond measure

Marin housing forum previews massive bond measure

Sep 22, 2023 | Housing, Meetings

By Richard Halstead
Marin Independent Journal

An affordable housing forum in San Rafael outlined a prospective statewide bond measure that could raise $10 billion to $20 billion to create more homes in the Bay Area.
“This could provide between 35,000 to 80,000 new homes across the nine-county region,” Somaya Abdelgany, an official at the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, told nearly 200 people at Dominican University of California.

Catalysts On A Crusade

Catalysts On A Crusade

Apr 10, 2023 | Legislation, Feature, Meetings

By Jack Metz April 10, 2023

Early tomorrow morning, residents of numerous California counties will congregate in Sacramento to demand legislators rethink everything about state land use policy. Thanks to the impressive orchestration efforts of Catalysts, a grassroots network based in Mill Valley, dozens of partner organization members will break out into teams and meet with various Capitol decision makers.