Santa Cruz Affordable Housing Campaign Reaches Milestone

The Workforce Housing Affordability Act campaign celebrated a major milestone on Thursday. City officials, supporters, and volunteers coming out to Santa Cruz City Hall on Thursday to celebrate gathering enough signatures to get the act on the November ballot. The campaign needed 3,620 signatures to get on the ballot, but ended up gathering 6,923.

Campaign organizers say the act will run through the Santa Cruz Affordable Housing Trust fund, and will provide the community with investment opportunities to construct new homes for lower income workers, funding to prevent evictions, protect senior housing, establish housing focused shelters, greater access to state and federal workforce housing funds, and bring down pollution by giving workers homes closer to their workplaces.

The city's affordable housing trust fund has already created 400 affordable apartments in the last 5 years, now hoping to add on with the help of Santa Cruz city voters.