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Yours truly is hosting a tour of affordable homes this coming Saturday, 6/16. We will meet residents and management staff from beautifully designed properties developed by EAH Housing and BRIDGE Housing. Oh, and there'll be free breakfast.

Contact Melody Lopez at (415) 491-4731 to RSVP!

Affordable housing tour this Saturday | Live Local Marin [caption id=attachment_133 align=alignright width=300 caption=Drake's Way][/caption] Join us this Saturday, June 16, for a tour of affordable

You would not believe how much more you pay to live in a denser, walkable neighborhood than in a suburban home! The reason is simple- demand for that type of housing is exploding, and we're not building more of it. We need to change that here in Marin, if ever so slightly:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/05/why-you-pay-more-walkable-neighborhoods/2122/

Why We Pay More for Walkable Neighborhoods New data points to the economic power of walkable neighborhoods – and the high cost of living in them.

A great look at how affordable housing & income inequality are connected: "People get to veto their neighbors’ land use decisions, and they’ve used that power to effectively prohibit anyone poorer than themselves from living in their neighborhoods. When combined with geographically-based schooling, the result is to concentrate poverty and thereby exacerbate and perpetuate inequality."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2012/05/22/how-strong-property-rights-promote-social-equality/

How Strong Property Rights Promote Social Equality - Forbes In today's poetic justice news, Star Wars creator George Lucas is planning to take revenge on his meddlesome Marin Valley neighbors. For years, he's been trying to get permission to build a new studio in Marin County. But his neighbors wouldn't budge, insisting that it was a place for homes, [...]

The Live Local Awards Banquet is tonight!!! We recommend you arrive 15 minutes early to leave time for parking and signing in.

See you all at Jackson Café!

Live Local Awards Banquet - Greenbelt Alliance To celebrate Affordable HousingHousing that can be purchased or rented by a household with moderate, low, or very low income, based on a household's ability to make monthly payments necessary to obtain housing. Housing is considered affordable when a household pays less than 30 percent of its gross ...