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Tag: Housing Sat, March 20, 2010

• Rents Down in Santa Cruz

  Jan 22, 2010, by Staff News

  Rents are down in Santa Cruz since last year, by 6.7 percent on average. Despite the drop, rental rates in the county are still the highest in the state.

• Santa Cruz Housing Forum Kicks Off

  Jan 13, 2010, by Jessica Lussenhop News
  

  Let’s start by stating the obvious: people around here feel very strongly about housing development. Or putting a stop to it. This little coastal town has seen some big divisions and plenty of lines drawn in the sand when it comes to deciding how to house the new immigrants, students and trannies (as in transplants) that arrive in a steadily increasing stream each year. Some of the best known players—the bitterati of the housing fight—have been battling for decades now along predictable factional lines: environmentalists versus developers, progressives versus business interests. Toss in the affordable housing advocates, the anti-university front and the people who just like things the way they are, and what you get is a turf war as heated as gangland. There is no shortage of drama here.

• A Victory for Low-Income Rentals in Santa Cruz

  Dec 02, 2009, by Danny Wool News

  The owner of the Alimur Mobile Home Park in Soquel has long been pressuring the county to allow him to sell of his property so that it can be converted into a condominium style arrangement.

• HUD Helps Santa Cruz County Fight Homelessness

  Sep 23, 2009, by Staff Community

  Homelessness is rampant in Santa Cruz County. With the current recession, about 2,260 people—1 percent of the total population—are currently homeless, says the 2009 Santa Cruz County Homeless Census and Survey.

• Capitola Mobile Home Park Set to Vacate

  Aug 07, 2009, by Kat Lynch Community
  

  A cool coastal breeze flows between the coaches lining the uneven asphalt of the Surf and Sand Mobile Home Park overlooking the Monterey Bay. A community made up largely of retirees, the Capitola park’s future is looking dim. While a few residents use the Surf and Sand as the location of a second home, the formerly over-55 park is the only home to many of its residents, and its closure will leave many homeless. (With slide show)

• The Tannery Puts On A Party

  Jun 02, 2009, by Jaime Nabrynski News
  

  With the live-work spaces at the Tannery arts complex complete, this weekend’s Grand Opening sheds light on the next phases of development: performance art spaces and studios.

• Running Meter 1

  May 06, 2009, by Meter Maid Opinion

  A bit of topical doggerel.