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By 06/30/2021
Farmworker housing advocates are facing some hard lessons from a pilot project that fell drastically short of its goal. Starting in 2012, a collaborative between the Marin Community Foundation and Marin County used a combination of public and private funds to build and renovate agricultural worker housing on ranches in West Marin. The group initially planned to fund 200 units within five years, but later sharply reduced the goal to 20 units.
In the end, only a dozen units were built, while the need for more affordable housing never went away.
“There were a number of lessons learned, including that using public funding on private land is really challenging,” said Leelee Thomas, the planning manager with the Marin County Community Development Agency who led the project.
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By 02/03/2021
The Marin County Board of Supervisors will consider freezing rent next week for residents in the northern area of West Marin until the end of year. The emergency ordinance would impact roughly 2,700 residents in Point Reyes Station, Nicasio, Marshall, Tomales, Dillon Beach and everywhere in between. The freeze covers United States Census Tract 1330, which had a 7.2 percent poverty rate before the pandemic. “We would like to lower the unsustainable strain on those households that struggled to pay rent even before the pandemic began, let alone after almost a year of additional hardship,” planning manager Leelee Thomas said in a press release. A similar rent freeze will be considered in Marin City, where 18 percent of residents live below the poverty line. (Homes built after 1995 would be exempt because state law limits local jurisdictions from regulating rent on these units.) The proposal is the latest in a series of actions taken by th