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MAYOR IRKED ABOUT LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING - Manteca Bulletin mantecabulletin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mantecabulletin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Manteca needs affordable housing for Manteca and not for Brentwood PERSPECTIVE The cost of a typical home in Brentwood is $726,844 as opposed to $459,125 in Manteca. Andrew Sephos was the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Back in 2006 when the rent for a two bedroom, one bathroom unit at Union North Apartments was $850 instead of the $1,990 they are fetching today, Sephos was among those who listened as a workshop was conducted at the Manteca Senior Center looking for answers on how the city could encourage the development of at-market workforce housing. The council appointed committee was tasked with finding ways to get more housing rental and otherwise developed for the those households making 80 to 120 percent of Manteca’s median income. Today that would represent an annual household income range of $55,000 to $81,000. ....
More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. TENTATIVE SUBDIVSION MAP MORATORIUM NOT IN CARDS Mayor Cantu‘s pitch for ‘pause’ isn’t legal but notes there is now ‘political will’ to address growth issues There will be no Manteca moratorium on new tentative subdivision maps. But that doesn’t mean the objectives that a pause on new plans for even more housing beyond the 6,000 or so living units already approved or in the approval process but not yet built won’t be addressed to some degree. “It just so happens all of the planets have lined up so it can be done with the existing administration and council,” Cantu said of tackling a number of vexing growth-related problems. “There is political will for it now.” ....