Preserving Deeded Affordable Housing
Work with municipalities to get the list of all affordable deeded properties and the deeds to determine course of actions, e.g. municipality first right of refusal to purchase or whether there is an opportunity to provide current owner with an incentive to re-deed to affordable into perpetuity.
Identify non-profit designates to purchase the land and funding sources if first-right-of-refusal action is taken. This might include CSCDA in collaboration with a non-profit such as Burbank, Eden, SAHA, MidPen (for rentals) and North Bay Community Land Trust or Habitat for Humanity (for ownership); the Sonoma County Housing Fund.
Adaptive Reuse of Existing Single Family Homes and Multifamily Housing
Home Ownership: Work with B-corp or volunteer realtor (reduced or no commissions) and Habitat for Humanity and/or North Bay Community Land Trust (HFH or NBCLT) to identify existing housing stock. Purchase at a fair market rate (100% or a charitable land purchase, i.e. 50% cost of home and 50% tax deduction for owner) using raised funds (e.g. Sonoma County Housing Fund, privately raised funds). Those funds could be donated directly to either HFH or NBCLT and restricted (directed) for the purchase of a particular housing unit. Once purchased, HFH or NBCLT can rehabilitate to reach 'green' standards and habitability standards (i.e. electric appliances, new windows, insulation, water saving heater, solar, wiring) and then sell as a deed-restricted low to above moderate AMI cap. Single Family Home lots could also have an ADU built (and potentially sold independently).
Multifamily Housing: Work with Burbank, MidPen, SAHA, Eden, or a nonprofit affordable housing (NPO AH) developer working with <40 unit management in the same manner as the home ownership model so that raised funds can be donated to one of these AH developers for rehabilitation and deeded affordable.
Farmworker Housing
Work with SV farmers who own their land to understand their farmworker needs and capacity to build housing on their land and create solutions that fit their need, such as applying SB9 to part of their property; building a dorm-style home (5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, common kitchen, common gathering area), attached plexes; land owner holding a ground lease on part of the land and having housing built and managed by a NPO AH developer.
Work with Permit Sonoma to revise current zoning and code to facilitate building of farmworker housing on farmland (currently may be too prohibitive for owner to build). To overcome environment concerns about developing in open space, buildings likely need to be clustered near roads.
Faith-based Land Development
Work with faith-based organizations on their willingness and land capacity to build AH for rentals.
Privately-owned, raw land
Work with B-corp or volunteer realtor to identify parcels and connect with current owners to begin a conversation of what they would need to get them to sell or donate all or a portion (charitable sale) of their land, including timing if intended as an inheritance with the idea to create a relationship so that they come to the SVCDC first when ready to sell.
For small-build lots for homeownership-work with HFH and NBCLT to coordinate the purchase by the NBCLT so that the land can be held as a ground-lease and HFH is the builder
For small-build lots (<30 units), identify an AH builder for small infill and potential AH developer to manage or purchase once built (would need an AH developer who is ok with several small multi unit properties in their portfolio)
Preservation of Mobile Home Parks
SVCDC can create relationships with MHP owners to purchase. The SVCDC has options to [a] raise private funds to allow NPO AH developer to purchase, [b] to form an LLC with private investors with the potential downstream actions by the LLC to deed AH and to 1. Retain property for a nominal return on HOA fees, 2. Donate property to a community land trust (ownership model), or 3. Work with MHP owners to purchase property and form a cooperative ownership model.