Category: Fight Poverty

The Crescent housing project to go before Napa City Council

Posted on: May 2, 2023

May 1, 2023, Edward Booth, Napa Valley Register Napa city commissioners and resident have recently expressed strong support for The Crescent housing project, which would bring more than 160 housing units to Napa County’s former Health and Human Services campus at 2344 Old Sonoma Road. Tuesday evening, the City Council is set to consider approving…

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You Do ADU, Part 5: Avoiding costly delays in your ADU project

Posted on: Apr 26, 2023

April 26, 2023, Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times We’ve all seen the stories about egregious delays and cost overruns affecting seemingly every public construction project, large or not-so-large. But anyone who’s done major home improvement work will tell you that delays and budget-busting surprises plagued them too. ADU experts agreed that the key to avoiding unexpected delays and…

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You Do ADU, Part 2: How to pay for your ADU

Posted on: Apr 13, 2023

April 5, 2023, Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times Once you’ve decided to build an ADU, the real fun starts: finding a way to pay for it. That won’t be an issue if you’ve got enough money in the bank to buy a Ferrari — go ahead and start interviewing contractors. Everyone else will have to…

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Napa County affordable loan program for ADU construction officially launches

Posted on: Mar 20, 2023

March 17, 2023, Edward Booth, Napa Valley Register Napa County’s first-in-the-country forgivable loan program for accessory dwelling unit construction has officially launched, the county announced in a Friday press release. The loans are intended to make it easier for people to build ADUs, which are living quarters that can be attached or detached from a…

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ADUs take center stage at Napa tour events

Posted on: Dec 2, 2022

Dec 1, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register   Napans curious about Accessory Dwelling Units recently had four chances to check out three different prefabricated models and learn more about ADUs from people involved in the different stages of the ADU construction process. Across the four events — which were scattered throughout…

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Napa Valley Napa Sonoma ADU Center launches program to ease building of accessory homes

Posted on: Nov 7, 2022

November 4, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register [caption id="attachment_8799" align="alignnone" width="300"] ADU (2nd residence) on the property of an existing single-family house.[/caption]   A local Accessory Dwelling Unit Plans Program, intended to ease the process of helping homeowners figure out the design and permitting for the junior housing units, has officially launched.…

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Prefab Accessory Dwelling Units are coming to the North Bay

Posted on: Jun 13, 2022

June 11, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register Abodu, a company focused on building prefabricated Accessory Dwelling Units, installed its first North Bay unit in unincorporated Sonoma County roughly two weeks ago. The company says more units will be coming to both Sonoma and Napa counties in the coming months. ADUs are small, self-contained…

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Napa County Announces $9 Million Investment in ADU Development, Proximity Housing

Posted on: Apr 21, 2022

April 20, 2022 – Napa County Board of Supervisors Continuing to address the housing crisis, the Napa County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to make an historic investment in affordable housing programs using $7 million from the counties American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocation and an additional $2 million from the Affordable Housing Fund balance…

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Efforts to ease Accessory Dwelling Unit building process continue in Napa County

Posted on: Apr 6, 2022

April 4, 2022 by Edward Booth in the Napa Valley Register Approvals for Accessory Dwelling Units, touted by lawmakers as one way to help solve California’s housing crisis, have been picking up across Napa County and California over the last few years. Still, the need for housing units still remains astronomically higher in California than what the slowly increasing…

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