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| Workforce Housing?
Name 3 places for Marin's Workforce Housing? .Marin IJ 6-20-01 (Blowup) --> |
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2001 Marin's median sales priced home is over $620,000. For
decades the County's land use planning has not consistently and strongly
enough pushed to implement a rail line over the long existing Northwest
Pacific rail right of way. Consequently, the ever lengthening
commute traffic is horrendous.
Who suffers the initial shock of extraordinarily expensive Marin homes? Initially, those who are able to compete for purchasing those homes suffer, and they may even complain some. After that, however, those who will face increasing frustration and a lessening quality of life includes everyone else. Service costs have been and will continue going up as employers find themselves increasingly bussing workers in from Fairfield and Sacramento. Big employers, like Lucas, Kaiser and others already, will find themselves forced to share in buying Marin homes in order to attract employees. Many Marinites, composing the oldest and richest median aged county in the state and perhaps nation, may tout that they earned this right to exclusivity -- but the lack of enough readily available and good plumbers, doctors, teachers, nurses, mechanics and service employees will soon be haunting their lives. As much as allowable in Marin's politically pressured anti-sensible housing and land use atmosphere, Canalways wants to address smartly address housing and employment needs. For an overview of how bad Marin's housing situation is click to the Marin IJ's excellent series... Workforce Housing - hometown crisis
Does San Rafael have a shortage of ownership housing for low and middle class people? Could a Fannie Mae National Model program initiated and developed in Marin be an answer delivered at Canalways? Learn more and see the nation shared equity ownership model, energy efficient Skylark Meadows. New project offers affordable housing ... and ownership and equity building potential to low income households. And the Community Assisted Shared Appreciation is still available in the region. Innovations at Skylark Sleeping seconds helped low income households share in Marin's wealth making equity, but there was little sleeping in gaining developer funding, some grant assistance and banking support to make this National Fannie Mae Model happen. |
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