This series explores how California's capital city approaches solutions to a nationwide problem. Each week two guests share their respective expertise around Sacramento area housing with a focus on solutions.
This week how housing advocate Cathy Creswell and Civic Thread's Jordan Grimaldi dig into the facts and figures of how housing affordability and availability tie into regional transit. Correction: It was the Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) board that cast the votes, not the Sacramento City Council, as originally reported.
This week: Approaches to the challenges found in the for-profit development world from two people who started businesses in the field. John Vignocchi of Urban Capital and Katie Hanten of Vertical Pacific speak about goals, risks and the current projects, which you may find yourself calling "home" some day soon.
CADA's Danielle Foster and CLTRE's Roshaun Davis are applying the future to the present moment. From adapting to continued home shortages and rent hikes to arming first-time homebuyers with the know-how to own in their neighborhood hear how they're focused on the city in 2040 and beyond. As a primer here's a link to Sacramento's General Plan for 2035.
The conversation this week is a look into the work of nonprofit housing agencies. Nur Kausar works for EAH Housing and Jonathan Cook is from the Sacramento Housing Alliance. They walk us through what they see as barriers to housing, how Sacramento stacks up with other cities in availability and affordability and how to navigate renting here. ...Also, despite how Nick opens the show, the series has not morphed into a Micky Rooney-style review of rock operas.
Challenges for Sacramento's unhoused communities run deep. Access to simple yet life saving medicine isn't easy to come by. For those transitioning off the street, finding shelter isn't always a magic wand to a new, happier chapter. This week Anna Darzins of the Sacramento Volunteers of America and Joe Smith of Hope Cooperative sit down to discuss the stigmas, the cycles and the hurdles finding stable shelter when you're unhoused.