Reading California's Plan for Housing
Greetings! If there is one document that contains the most accurate description of what California is trying to do about creating housing, it's the text of Assembly Bill 83 , signed by the Governor in June of this year. I didn't say clearest document, as it's written in the language of legislation. But it is the law, and it does provide direction to the tens of thousands of government employees and contractors trying to work together. Since I try to keep up with the hundreds of individual funding sources, and thousands of funded projects, in order to bring the most opportunity to Sonoma County housing activists, understanding the marching orders in AB83 is important. What led me to take a deep look at it was two recent deadlines: 1) my application for election to the latest version of the governing board of Sonoma County's Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC); and 2) the release of a Notice of Funding Allocation (NOFA) of California's Homeless Housing And Preve...