SVC’s best estimates of housing need in Sonoma Valley, as of October 2025, are:

For housing PRODUCTION: The Valley has an accumulated deficit of about 6,400 homes and apartments since 2000. In meeting that need, roughly 70% of the new units should be below-market (affordable to people making less than 120% of the Area Median Income). Read the analysis by Generation Housing here.

For the PRESERVATION of existing lower-cost housing: Of Sonoma Valley’s 562 income-restricted affordable units, about 70 are at risk of converting to market prices in the next several years.

For precariously housed residents needing housing PROTECTION: About 16% of Sonoma Valley’s residents, and 54% of its renters, for a total of over 6,000 people, are “housing-burdened”, meaning that they pay more than 30% of their income toward housing, and are in danger of losing their housing if an unexpected expense arises. See more detail at the end of Strategy 2a.