Continued Advocacy on Housing Policies

Sustainable Sonoma recently submitted two letters to impact the future of housing affordability in Sonoma Valley.

The coalition urged the Sonoma City Council to prioritize allocations that substantially increase the balance in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Only with financial commitments from the City’s own coffers can we build the lower-cost homes that could once again make Sonoma a welcome place for more of our community members, including young people, young families, working people, people of color, artists and musicians, entrepreneurs, and retired people on fixed incomes.

In a joint letter endorsed by Generation Housing, the Housing Land Trust of Sonoma County, Sonoma Valley Housing Group, Santa Rosa Community Health and Burbank Housing, Sustainable Sonoma advocated for adding new housing within cities’ urban growth boundaries, in priority development areas, and within unincorporated urban service areas. Comments focused on offering an initial framework and set of principles by which the County may evaluate individual sites analyzed in the Draft EIR for possible rezoning or inclusion in the upcoming Housing Element update.

If these issues are important to you, we ask you to support Sustainable Sonoma’s continued effort to bring the Sonoma Valley communityʼs different sectors together 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.

Kimberly and Simon Blattner have generously pledged $50,000 to Sustainable Sonoma. We ask you to help us match this gift so we can reach our goal of $175,000.