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Mendocino County Planning & Building Services

HealthyMendocino.org - Healthy Mendocino works to improve quality of life throughout Mendocino County by encouraging informed dialogue about the actions local residents and organizations can take to improve community health.

2nd Units

• County of Santa Cruz site full of useful information- the county participates in lending program for ADU for low income seniors  and other innovative programs   http://www.sccoplanning.com/adu.aspx
• Second Units Resource Center https://secondunitcentersmc.org. The site includes a second unit calculator to estimate the costs, returns, and benefits associated with building an ADU. https://secondunitcentersmc.org/calculator/
• Lots of building info and links to all kinds of ADU Portlandhttp://pdxadu.blogspot.com
• ADU Library - Home for All: Second Unit Center (JJ)

 
Tiny Houses

• Tiny houses, big potential: Support is growing for Simplicity Village in Chico, but roadblocks remain https://www.newsreview.com/chico/tiny-houses-big-potential/content?oid=25516904
• Converting bedroom to a tiny house. https://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house-concept/lilypad-homes-converts-spare-bedrooms-into-tiny-houses/
• Tiny House Communities: https://www.newsreview.com/chico/tiny-houses-big-potential/content?oid=25516904  

Pre-Fabs, Kits, Modulars

• Dweller  http://www.dweller.com/
• PrefabADU  http://www.prefabadu.com/
• Little House on the Trailer https://www.littlehouseonthetrailer.com/

 
Community Land Trusts

• Center for American Progress https://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/report-zonta.pdf
•  National Community Land Trust Organization     http://cltnetwork.org
• Opal Community Land https://www.opalclt.org/about/how-it-works
• Directions for starting a Community Land Trust Start-up CLT HUB - Grounded Solutions             (JJ)
• Community Developed Housing The Nightingale Team — Nightingale Housing (JJ)
• Workforce Housing Development/Investing Why HNW Investors Need to Understand the Appeal of Workforce Housing (JJ)
• Construction Costs / Apartments Cost to build an apartment building - Estimates and Prices at Fixrv (JJ)
• Investing / Affordable Housing Why Private and Institutional Investment Is the Future of Affordable Housing Preservation  (JJ)
• Saint Joseph Community Land Trust https://saintjosephclt.org/ (JJ)
• Community Land Trust Bay Area Community Land Trust | Community ownership of land and community improvements (JJ)
• Northern California Community Land Trust Home - Landing Page - Northern California Land Trust (JJ)

 
HomeSharing

• Nesterly: https://www.nesterly.io/how-it-works
• CityLab Is It Time to Bring Back the Boarding House? (JJ)
• USA Today Bring back the boardinghouse: Column (JJ)
• SLATE Flophouses, Rooming Houses, and Microapartments  (JJ)
• CityLab A Brief History of Co-Living Spaces (JJ)
• HIPHousing Home Sharing Program - HIP Housing (JJ)

 
County Housing Reports

• The Housing Needs Assessment section analyzes the demographic, household, income, employment, and housing stock characteristics of Mendocino County. https://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/planning/pdf/current/2-Housing Needs Assessment clean.pdf    

County Demographics

• Report from Center for Economic Development California State University, Chico  http://edfc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CED-2018-Mendocino-Economic-Demographic-Profile-compressed.pdf

 
Articles of other local housing groups

• Homebase - a non-profit dedicated to building community capacity to prevent and end homelessness.
• Satellite Affordable Housing Association Publications | SAHA  (JJ)
• Housing Humboldt About Us | Housing Humboldt (JJ)
• It’s like we don’t exist’: California’s invisible rural housing crisis. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/1231/It-s-like-we-don-t-exist-California-s-invisible-rural-housing-crisis?fbclid=IwAR36KD3WB8d2QEu_ZepVppDXA9XoxAWhVyNzIuUbhZh1RvxV6Y62hem5uL0
• How Finland Is Stamping Out Homelessness. https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/stories/finland-housing-first-solving-homeless-crisis?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=872c994f83-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WED0206_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcbff2e256-872c994f83-42324765

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