Marin housing advocates highlight crisis and potential solutions at library event

Marin County’s housing shortage, soaring prices and state-mandated growth requirements took center stage at a Belvedere-Tiburon Library presentation last week, where housing advocates explained how Tiburon Peninsula communities are directly affected by the crisis.

“We all feel the housing crisis,” said Carmela Davis, housing specialist with the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative. “It’s not just those that are pushed out.”

At the March 18 forum, “Let’s Talk About Housing,” representatives from the collaborative outlined how Marin’s history of exclusionary zoning, slow development and preservation policies have created one of California’s most segregated counties where many workers, including those raised in Marin, cannot afford to live.

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