By Edward Booth, Napa Valley Register
This Spring, the Napa Valley Register did a deep dive into ongoing efforts in Napa County to foment ADU development and support local homeowners.
Here are some snippets from the article; click here to read the full article.
“[E]asing approval of permit applications doesn’t help residents figure out if they want to build an ADU in the first place. The mission of the Napa Sonoma ADU Center is to help close that information gap, said Renée Schomp, director of the center. It started up in 2020 through a joint effort from the Napa Valley Community Foundation and Community Foundation Sonoma County, she said, both of which were concerned about housing affordability in the North Bay.
CEO Terence Mulligan said the Foundation considers a lack of workforce housing to be a primary driver of poverty in Napa. That’s because many people who work in Napa pay a large percentage of their income on rent, he said, and therefore struggle to afford other necessities.”