Ben Wickham, current chief operating officer for Burbank Housing, has had the title, vice president of Operations, added to his job description, retaining his COO title at the nonprofit affordable housing project organization.
Meanwhile, the Santa Rosa-based....
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Another exciting project that is moving forward are the Willowglen Apartments. With an anticipated move-in date of December 2021, Willowglen Apartments is Burbank Housing’s newest affordable home community....
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
In Sonoma County and across California, housing costs continue to climb beyond the reach of many residents.
Increasingly, policymakers have pointed to small-scale, “naturally affordable” homes as a key solution. Last month, ....
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AUGUST 25, 2021
Following a brief discussion during its Thursday night meeting, the Clearlake City Council voted unanimously to move ahead with purchasing the property that once housed the city’s water park in order to include it in a large....
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AUGUST 24, 2021
Santa Rosa nonprofit Catholic Charities will temporarily relocate its main homeless services center to a nearby location in the west end neighborhood of the city to clear the way for construction of a new drop-in site set to open....
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AUGUST 18, 2021
Starting in 2023, the state wants Sonoma County to approve over 14,500 new homes for residents of all income levels over the following eight years.
Though no final target has been approved, officials in....
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AUGUST 16, 2021
The trees were short, gnarled, spaced evenly about 30 feet apart but apparently ill-tended. Their weathered trunks were gray, split and twisted with age, but buried in the crowns of greenery were....
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AUGUST 1, 2021
Inside a crowded auditorium in southwest Santa Rosa, Greg Basurto heard his name called and stepped up to a raffle drum filled with hundreds of numbered cards. The stakes were high. In all likelihood, his selection would determine....
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JULY 21, 2021
Pacaso, a fractional homeownership startup company whose business model has caused uproar in Napa and Sonoma counties, has pledged at least $100,000 to North Bay affordable housing developer Burbank Housing to provide free....
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JULY 20, 2021
Pacaso, a service that helps people buy and co-own luxury second homes, has selected affordable housing developer Burbank Housing as its primary community partner in Napa and Sonoma counties, said a news release....
READ MORETHE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL
JULY 15, 2021
The world remains vigilant in the battle against the coronavirus, and that is true for the area’s top contractors and their firms. But there’s more to watch, like the cost of materials, the availability of labor and....
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JUNE18, 2021
California lawmakers introduced several bills this year that would rezone empty strip malls and big-box stores across the state to allow for new housing development without undergoing lengthy and costly local approvals....
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JUNE18, 2021
The state legislature is considering measures that would require developers hire union labor on affordable housing projects. Not surprisingly, the industry is not happy.
Affordable housing developers have criticized the proposal....
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June 17, 2021
California housing is in crisis. The state has half of the country’s 10 most expensive residential real estate markets, and more than a quarter of the nation’s homeless population.
But a new flashpoint is emerging....
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APRIL 21, 2021
A 57-unit affordable housing rental project at 155 Dry Creek Road is in the early stages of being developed following a unanimous city council decision to enter into an exclusive negotiation agreement (ENA) with Burbank Housing....
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FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Burbank Housing plans to move to bigger offices in Santa Rosa this spring.
The Santa Rosa-based nonprofit builder and operator of affordable housing throughout the North Bay purchased a 15,360-square-foot office building...
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JANUARY 26, 2021
The Santa Rosa Housing Authority has approved the use of about $38 million in federal disaster relief funds to build hundreds of new affordable homes in the next few years...
READ MORELearn about the steps to homeownership along with new and resale opportunities that maybe available to you. Sign up now for our virtual meeting, space is limited.
READ MOREAffordable housing projects have always been tough to pay for, but at least now more local officials are recognizing them as a key need, says the incoming CEO for the nonprofit homebuilder Burbank Housing Management Corp...
READ MOREHealdsburg, one of the most expensive real estate markets in Sonoma County, is making some inroads to both create and preserve affordable housing.
The city has completed a $1.8 million deal to purchase a property on Center Street, preserving eight affordable...
READ MOREFormer Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo to be advocate for Burbank Housing
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A former chairman of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will start a new job next month...
READ MOREThe Gasser Foundation, in conjunction with developer Burbank Housing, announced plans to build a 50-unit affordable housing development in south Napa.
The project, to be called Stoddard West, will be located north of Home Depot and Tulocay Creek...
READ MORENorth Bay Business Journal announced the recipients of the 2017 Facilities Manager Awards, recognizing those who keep their organizations functioning.
The recipients will be recognized at a June 16 ceremony at Fountaingrove Inn in Santa Rosa and will be profiled...
READ MOREOnly yards from where ground is being prepared for hundreds of market rate apartments, Napa is supporting a smaller housing development with reduced rents for all...
READ MOREJust as Sonoma County supporters and residents prepare to kick off Affordable Housing Week to explore opportunities and solutions for our region’s housing challenges, a new report demonstrates just how dramatically our area’s affordable housing challenges have grown...
READ MOREHousing has been a passion for me. As a child, I was aware that the comfort and security I experienced was related to the pleasant home my parents were able to provide. As a young person, I was aware of the distress experienced by others who struggled in poor housing
READ MORENAPA COUNTY, Calif., June 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) announced today that $3.9 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants have been awarded to help finance
READ MORESome meetings of the city’s Planning Commission play to an empty house, but that’s not likely to happen this Thursday evening, Sept. 8, with at least two agenda items coming up for discussion that could affect the temper of life in Sonoma: a 49-unit affordable housing c
READ MOREFrom the escalating rents facing tenants to the tight market weighing on home buyers, Sonoma County’s housing crisis is emerging as a dominant issue in the race to replace Efren Carrillo on the Board of Supervisors.
READ MOREFor decades, Roseland residents have been working hard to improve Roseland. Many have thought the current preliminary efforts for the annexation of Roseland to Santa Rosa, with a Roseland specific plan being done by Santa Rosa city planners, would better their community
READ MORECities throughout the state are struggling to provide housing for middle- and low-income residents. Healdsburg is no exception. Housing is the dominant issue in this year’s election, with all six City Council candidates focused on the topic and a controversial ballot me
READ MOREAfter 19-plus years, Charles “Chuck” Cornell retired as president and executive director of Burbank Housing in Sonoma County on Sept 1.
Cornell announced his planned departure earlier this year. Helen Dunlap has been appointed interim CEO as Burbank Housing ...
READ MOREIn her candidate statement for the November election, Noreen Evans, who is running for 5th District supervisor, has identified $2.3 billion in the Sonoma County Employees Retirement Fund as a source for financing affordable housing.
READ MOREIn Part 1 of this article, published in the August Gazette, I made the case that the desperate condition of housing affordability stems from a variety of public policy decisions. Part 2 identifies some local options for housing success.
READ MOREPETALUMA, CA - Petaluma City Manager John C. Brown has outlined city programs to address housing affordability is a new letter to the community:
The cost to rent or buy a home in Petaluma has increased dramatically in recent years. According to Zillow, during the...
READ MOREA Sonoma County affordable housing project faces a more secure future after the state Legislature moved this week to extend a deadline crucial to the $22 million project, retaining $3.8 million in state funding.
The project in question, Catalina Townhomes ...
READ MORESonoma County supervisors on Tuesday approved spending $3.5 million in local and federal dollars over the next fiscal year to fund a wide range of projects benefiting disabled, homeless and low-income residents.
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READ MORECalling the lack of affordable housing a crisis, public officials, housing advocates and construction industry leaders gathered Thursday in Santa Rosa to consider how to build new subsidized units in Sonoma County.
While representatives of all three sectors agreed...
READ MOREFor the 12th year in a row, the Redwood Empire Food Bank is hosting their Hunger-Free Summer Lunch Program for Sonoma County children 18 years of age and younger. There is a designated lunchtime at sites around the county and any child who shows up within the time...
READ MOREThe Santa Rosa school district is hoping to open a charter school for career and technical education on the West College Avenue site that formerly housed the Sonoma County Water Agency.
The Santa Rosa City Schools board will meet Tuesday to discuss acquiring the...
READ MOREAs Sonoma County grapples with the lack of affordable housing, one effort to help move some local families into home ownership faces uncertainty due to the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crisis.
Barring a legislative fix, crucial funding is in jeopardy for the...
READ MOREThree preliminary designs for the long-awaited Roseland Village neighborhood development will be publicly released Monday, each a uniquely different stab at a vision of urban renewal that has been raising the hopes of a neglected community for nearly a decade.
READ MOREScott Johnson of MidPen Housing asked Roseland residents Thursday night to picture themselves as a young person standing in the huge asphalt parking lot in southwest Santa Rosa at Sebastopol Road and West Avenue.
Speaking in English and Spanish, Johnson invited...
READ MOREIn today’s letters, a reader takes issue with a plan by the Santa Rosa City Schools District to build housing for teachers on a plot of land in Fountaingrove that was set aside long ago for a school. “I believe this is a gross misuse of public funds,” she wrote...
READ MORESonoma County supervisors are eyeing a major transformation of the former Sutter Hospital site in the hills of eastern Santa Rosa into a mixed-use housing development that could potentially bring hundreds of new units onto the market.
The Board of Supervisors is ...
READ MORESonoma County home builders suffered through another slow year in 2015, but building officials and others insist construction activity will increase markedly this year.
County builders took out permits for just 442 new houses, apartments and condominiums last year...
READ MOREBurbank Housing Executive Director Charles A. (Chuck) Cornell announced Thursday he will retire later this year.
The Santa Rosa nonprofit housing development agency, which manages 2,800 rental units in Sonoma County, will conduct a search for his replacement.
READ MOREA panel of housing experts is expected to lend a ground-level view Thursday in Healdsburg to the question dogging local governments: What does it take to build more affordable housing?
The moderated discussion with five developers from both the profit and nonprofit..
READ MORESoon after my first election, an issue that came to my attention was a request for funding for the emergency shelter at the Guerneville Veteran’s Building. Upon reviewing the situation, it was clear that the shelter was primarily a community effort by local residents..
READ MOREA long-planned 79-unit low-income unit housing complex in Roseland is expected to break ground in August after the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors this week approved a much-needed $300,000 investment, the final installment needed to start construction...
READ MOREBurbank Housing staff are available to speak with members of the media about the work of Burbank Housing, current trends in affordable housing and issues on housing in Sonoma County. We can also connect you with residents in our communities or organizations we partner with to provide services in our communities.
For all media-related inquiries or to learn more about the work Burbank Housing in our communities throughout Sonoma County, serving families, seniors and others in need please contact:
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PMontgomery@burbankhousing.org | 707.303.1083
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