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| For most families,
housing costs are usually the largest line item cost in their budget. Marin's
housing costs are among the most expensive in the nation.
Consequently, housing costs have a huge upfront and hidden impact on
Marin's economy. Without addressing its $650,000 median home prices,
Marin will soon find its quality of life emulating the increasingly
deteriorated quality of transportation and commuting it has come to
suffer through over the last decade.
Teachers living in their working community aren't important to today and tomorrow's quality of life, are they? School districts consider housing assistance Teacher salutes ... vanishing housed teacher species Not just service workers but professional teachers, cops, nurses... even doctors...those who we entrust some of most important life decisions to -- can no longer own in Marin. Smart supply and demand is the biggest part of the answer. In the meantime, innovative stopgap solutions do exist but hey take community, foundation, developer and government support. The Community Assisted Shared Appreciation is one such solution. For more historical information, click below: New project offers affordable housing Innovations at Novato's Skylark Meadows Thanks expressed by CASA assisted buyers: Skylark heaven and Reverend thankful for affordability What typically happens to force low and moderate income households out of the market for owning housing in Marin? Click How affordable housing goes ... or becomes unaffordable. What is part of the mental side that makes providing affordable housing the Uneasy politics of change? For the Marin IJ's excellent series... |
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