Mayor Kevin Johnson wants 10,000 housing units downtown over
the next 10 years. So we’ll need to
average 84 homes a month to make that happen!
The DSP (Downtown Sacramento Partnership)
also identified housing as a critical component of any effort to improve the urban
core in their 2013 “3 Point Plan for Moving Sacramento Forward”, part of a broad
assessment that identified the key initiatives necessary to support growth
downtown.
A lot of housing proposals have come and
gone and new ones are in the works; but what’s (still) missing in
current development proposals are concrete plans to develop "moderately
priced", owner occupied housing in mid-range price points
of $250,000 to $450,000 that will attract young families and young
professionals, and empty nesters that want to come back to Downtown.
Now the mayor has publicly recognized the
need for housing in Downtown’s rebirth as reported by Tony Bizjak in the Sacramento
Bee recently:
Repopulating downtown
The mayor set out this ambitious goal Thursday night: 10,000 new
housing units in the next 10 years. Those people, he said, will be getting
around via streetcars and light rail, not so much in cars. That way, the
downtown will finally become a people place again. The downtown is getting its
arena, and new businesses are emerging. “Housing is the missing component,” he
said.
Downtown arena
A big topic in his last
two speeches, the Kings and the downtown arena got only a few mentions this
time around. The mayor said ESPN plans to air a documentary later this year on
how the city kept the Kings and got a new arena built.
What do you think?
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