Housing for People Gathers Signatures for Initiative

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Aug 4, 2023 | All Talk, Housing & Homelessness, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Housing for People Gathers Signatures for Initiative

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A citizen’s initiative is busy gathering signatures in the city of Santa Cruz that would allow residents to vote on the height of buildings over the current limit in the general plan and would require that 25% of the units in new buildings be affordable. Frank Barron and Karesha Durham are spearheading the effort and talk here about their goals.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.