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Winter Solstice It is my favorite day of the year, as it signals the end of the solar year, and the beginning of the new one. It signals the return of the sun as each day hereafter gets longer — m...
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SOLEDAD — Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has announced that the Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association (CHISPA) will receive $1.32 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through a combination of a grant and a low-cost federal loan to …
Increasingly, the housing crisis has become a major political issue in California, and nowhere is that more true than the city of Monterey, where about two-thirds of the residents are renters and where the economy is driven by the hospitality…
On Oct. 2, about a year-and-a-half after the Pajaro River levee failed, flood agencies broke ground on the long-awaited Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project. The five-year, $599 million project sets out to protect the river valley and its tributaries…
GREENFIELD — EAH Housing, a nonprofit housing development and management organization, has announced that construction is underway at Greenfield Commons, with the last modular stack for Greenfield Commons Phase I recently completed.
MONTEREY COUNTY — The imbalance between housing supply and demand is a key challenge to economic growth in Monterey County, according to a new report that makes clear the need for increasing housing supply.
Two allegations against Pacifica Senior Living for attempting to evict 96-year-old Jean Jacques from a Pacific Grove facility in August have been substantiated by the California Department of Social Services, according to a letter sent on Oct. 16.
The future of workforce housing on the Central Coast may well look like a three-bedroom, two-bath house tucked away on a lot at 1045 Cass St. in Monterey.
It was an extensive collaboration that enabled Salinas to open the first state-subsidized Homekey project in Monterey County in December 2020, initially housing over 60 people who either had no homes or were on the brink of homelessness. The County…
Celia Jiménez here, thinking about Terracina at The Dunes, a 142-apartment affordable housing community right off Highway 1 in Marina. It’s a project I’ve seen from start to finish while driving on Imjin Parkway, and I’ve reported extensively about it.
MONTEREY COUNTY — County of Monterey Vacation Rentals Ordinances, which regulate vacation rental operations in inland unincorporated Monterey County, will take effect Oct. 14.
A now-vacant 94-year-old hospital building and a row of 12 occupied cottage apartments within unincorporated Carmel just off Highway 1 could become the site of Monterey County’s first “builder’s remedy” housing development, with construction of at least 127 units of…
Talk of the Bay host Len Beyea leads a discussion about housing affordability and, in particular, the rent control initiative on California's November ballot, Proposition 33. Participants include Lira Filipini, Rick Longinotti, and Lee Brokaw.Proposition 33 on the November …
David Schmalz here. Short-term rentals have long been a sticky subject locally, as opponents argue they hurt the fabric of the community and take vital housing units off the market, while its proponents broadly argue that a property owner should…
With a full City Hall and two defined factions that showed up—one to support and one to oppose a rent stabilization ordinance—the Salinas City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on Tuesday, Sept. 24 that will cap annual rent increases within…
Two weeks after the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of a new short-term rental ordinance, the board split down the same lines on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in a final approval of amendments to the county’s code…
A farmworker housing project in Pajaro got the green light from a majority of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
In what is becoming an increasingly divisive issue in the village, a majority of the Carmel City Council members declined to make a decision on bringing street addresses to the village on Tuesday, Sept. 10, instead voting to let the…
SOLEDAD — The City of Soledad is the first South Monterey County community to adopt the 2023-2031 Housing Element, a document that will ensure Soledad adequately plans to meet the housing needs of all community members.
Taking about 14 years of work, the County of Monterey is a step closer to having a short-term rental ordinance, after the Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 27 in favor of draft versions that had been vetted…
Soon after a story went viral around the world about 96-year-old Jean Jacques of Pacific Grove Senior Living receiving a three-day eviction notice from owners Pacifica Senior Living—despite having a contract guaranteeing her care for life— the company reversed itself…
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