State of the Bay: Housing

Housing

• How does the median cost of a house in the Bay Area shape the lives of Bay Area residents and workers?
• What factors determine price differentials across the Bay Area?
• What housing is available to whom?
• What does it take to secure a loan, and what are implications?

• Marin Housing
A public corporation authorized to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people.

• The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
. . .One of more than 560 regional planning agencies across the nation working to help solve problems in areas such as land use, housing, environmental quality, and economic development.

• Habitat for Humanity: San Francisco
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat for Humanity is currently building homes in partnership with families of low-income in over 3,000 communities around the world.

• Ritter Center
Marin's primary access point back to the mainstream for homeless persons and a critical safety net for the working poor and other at-risk populations.

• Thomas Dolan Architecture
The Live/Work Institute is a non-profit organization which was founded by Thomas Dolan to advocate, encourage, and assist the development of Live/Work and Zero Commute Housingª, and to collect, organize and disseminate information about it.
• Department of Housing and Community Development
CA.Gov's resources for codes and standards, financial assistance, housing policy development, and more.

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Planning and Development: Office of Affordable Housing (OAHP) administers three separate programs designed to address the nationwide shortage in affordable housing.