Redevelopment Agencies > Santa Cruz (county)

Santa Cruz (county)

Total
Warning Signs
For fiscal years spanning
2000-2001 to 2007-2008
Failed to
develop land
within five
years
Spent more
than half their
money on
"planning"
Spent at least
$100,000 of budget and built no units
$61,050,709

Population:

255,602

Residents
in Poverty:

11.5%

Source: Census 2000

Contact this agency:

http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us

701 Ocean St., Room 510

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Source: California Redevelopment Association

Website as of 2010; Address as of 2008

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Housing Units (back to top)

  • 0 used covenants
  • 35 used subsidies
  • 0 used funds allocated for mobile homes
  • 422 built
  • 0 rehabilitated
  • 12 destroyed

Land Holdings (back to top)

A state law requires land purchased for affordable housing to be developed within five years.

This agency has failed to develop:

  • 0 parcels of land for more than five years
  • 0 parcels of land for more than 10 years

Spending (back to top)

Expenditure data current as of 2008.
Category

Spending

Percent of Total

Agency Average

At risk of becoming
unaffordable
$595,945 less than 1% 4.76%
Debt payments $17,799,627 29.16% 28.33%
Land acquisition
and site preparation
$6,714,705 11.00% 20.70%
Mobile homes $2,451,348 4.02% 4.79%
New $12,030,535 19.71% 19.18%
Other $4,136,755 6.78% 16.61%
Planning and
administration
$9,553,616 15.65% 23.57%
Rehabilitation
$2,368,955 3.88% 13.02%
Rental subsidies $5,399,223 8.84% 19.33%
Total $61,050,709 100% N/A

Nearby Agencies (back to top)

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Source: California Department of Housing and Community Development

Credits: Kim Christensen, Jessica Garrison, Michelle Minkoff, Sandra Poindexter, Doug Smith

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About this project

This database tracks the expenditures of California city and county redevelopment agencies on housing.

During the fiscal years spanning 2000-2001 to 2007-2008, agencies spent property tax dollars mostly on planning, acquiring land and constructing, renovating and removing housing units.

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