The mayor has a plan to fix Sacramento’s housing crisis. If this happens, it could actually work
“It includes using money from Measure U — assuming voters agree to permanently raise the city’s sales tax by 1 cent in November — to help refill the city’s largely empty housing trust fund. The money would be used to help subsidize affordable housing projects. Steinberg also wants to create a ‘housing czar’ who would determine how that money would be spent, in addition to distributing rental subsidies to people in danger of losing their apartments and helping coordinate initiatives to reduce homelessness.”