Santa Cruz Considers Loosening Affordable Housing Rules
Naturalist John Muir once said that when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it attached to everything else in the universe. He was probably talking about studying trees or glaciers, but he...
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Mayor Cynthia Chase remembers sitting down earlier this year with teachers, parents, and students at Mission Hill Middle School to discuss Santa Cruz’s rising housing costs. The students on the other...
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Ticket Snub
Paul Steffen is in the midst of one of Santa Cruz’s greatest stresses: looking for a place to live. Currently living out of the Paige Smith building at the Homeless Services Center (HSC), he has...
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Moving to Santa Cruz for an Affordable Home
Kate Downing’s letter on housing affordability was the shot heard around the Bay Area. In a post that went viral, the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commissioner resigned this month because she...
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The Secret to Affordable Housing
Physician Joshua Bamberger does what he can to treat one of his patients, a wheelchair-bound homeless veteran. But after an appointment draws to a close, Bamberger and the patient go their separate...
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Is YIMBY Movement Headed to Santa Cruz?
[Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on future housing plans for the city of Santa Cruz. Part one ran last week.] A crowd—mostly homeowners over 50—chuckled and guffawed when Adam...
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NUZ: The Great Housing Data Gag, and the Sentinel’s Missing Piece
In a bold gambit to do something—literally, anything—about soul-crushing housing costs in Santa Cruz, the city council has moved to … continue studying whether they should figure out how much it...
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Grand Jury Report Says Cities Should Do More To Curb Housing Crisis
A new report from the Civil Grand Jury takes square aim at the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County and demands local planners do more to tackle the problem. The document, published June 2,...
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