Join leaders from Santa Barbara County, City Ventures, and Harris & Associates to explore strategies for effective planning, zoning, and incentives. Learn how to craft policies and partnerships that drive sustainable, inclusive housing development.
Workforce housing is a critical component of sustainable and inclusive community development. This engaging panel brings together leaders from the County of Santa Barbara Housing Department (which has recently approved a groundbreaking Workforce Housing Strategic Implementation Plan), City Ventures (a California workforce housing developer with a demonstrated track record of working with local communities to deliver thousands of solar-powered and ecologically responsible townhomes, condominiums, lofts, mixed use, live/work and single family detached homes) and Harris & Associates (community development strategic advisors and development economics experts working with local governments to right size zoning and policies to increase workforce and affordable housing).
Together, they will explore the challenges and opportunities in effective planning practices and strategies to encourage workforce housing development, from lower income to the missing middle. Key discussion points will include:
- Insights into the development and approval process of a strategic implementation plan.
- Best practices and lessons learned from successful workforce missing middle housing projects.
- Strategies for fostering public-private partnerships to accelerate workforce housing development.
