FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KGO) As California grapples with the growing housing crisis, affordable housing advocates are hoping to put to use 300 homes that have been sitting empty in Solano County for a decade. But they re hitting roadblocks from both the city of Fairfield and their next door neighbor Travis Air Force Base.
One big hurdle? The base controls the water for the development, and they won t agree to turn it on. This is a classic case of NIMBY-ism, Anthony York with the Affordable Housing for Hundreds Coalition told ABC7 News. It s just this time the NIMBY neighbor happens to be the U.S. Air Force.