The Sedona City Council received an overview of the recently released Affordable
Housing Needs Assessment and the development of the draft five-year housing action plan. The purpose of the plan is to assess and address the ongoing housing issue in Sedona. David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
The lack of affordable — or available — workforce housing in Sedona has steadily gone from being a problem to becoming a crisis.
That feeling was loud and clear on Dec. 9, as the Sedona City Council was presented a draft of the Affordable Housing Needs Assessment and the development of the draft five-year housing action plan.
According to a city report, for the last several years, council has identified the need for workforce housing as one of its highest policy priorities. Sedona’s Community Plan identified housing diversity as one of six major outcomes to achieve by 2020. That outcome specifically called for housing types that “provide options for all ages and income levels by using innovative public policies and programs, and nurturing partnerships with private developers.”