SONOMA VALLEY
HOUSING DECLARATION
Sonoma Valley suffers from a severe housing affordability crisis that affects every aspect of our community. The future of our community is at stake.
Sonoma Valley Collaborative members have pledged to work together, across boundaries, to increase, improve and preserve housing that is affordable, for people who live or work in the Valley, within already developed areas, to create diverse, safe, complete neighborhoods.
OUR COLLABORATION ON AFFORDABILITY IN SONOMA VALLEY.
OUR COLLABORATION ON AFFORDABILITY IN SONOMA VALLEY.
Our Work On Housing
A Catalyst for Housing in Sonoma Valley
We leading the creating of the Sonoma Valley Housing Affordability Roadmap, which will set the stage for major interventions to improve housing affordability in Sonoma Valley.
Influencing the Sonoma County & City of Sonoma Housing Plans
Our advocacy resulted in the most pro-housing Housing Element ever adopted by the City of Sonoma.
A Blueprint For Answering the Housing Declaration’s Call to Action
Our 2020 report, Homes for a Sustainable Sonoma Valley: Strategic Recommendations For Our Community identifies strategies to reach the vision articulated in the Housing Declaration.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR WORK.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR WORK.
More Highlights
WE ARE A COALITION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS.
WE ARE A COALITION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS.
Our Members
Sonoma Valley Collaborative is a forum of community leaders from a wide range of sectors across Sonoma Valley, finding solutions and taking action to address our community’s biggest challenges.
Our core partners are working together to build a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support for our partners.
Other Partners
HOW WE DO WHAT WE DO.
HOW WE DO WHAT WE DO.
Our Core Functions
We work to build a shared understanding of complex community problems and shift public opinion toward agreed-upon solutions.
We develop tools that inform member decisions on new projects, policies and proposed actions.
We identify and link potential investment opportunities with new projects or programs that align with our explicit values and identified solutions.
We identify and tackle complex community problems with an explicit value of sustainability, finding solutions that have the greatest buy-in and also promote balance among: environment, economy and equity.
We help facilitate diplomacy across key sectors within the community, linking together organizations and leaders to solve complex community problems.