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Ojai council narrows affordable-housing priorities, asks staff for work plan

5022749 · June 18, 2025
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Summary

At a June 17 special meeting, the Ojai City Council agreed on top priorities for affordable housing goals — researching a housing trust, identifying workforce-housing opportunities and exploring a housing commission — and directed staff to return with tactics, timelines and cost estimates.

The Ojai City Council on June 17 narrowed its list of affordable-housing tactics and directed staff to prepare detailed reports and a work plan for the council to consider.

The council prioritized three items as its top actions under the council—adopted goals: researching and establishing a housing trust; identifying opportunities to create workforce housing; and exploring creation of a housing commission. Mayor Ben Gilman and council members framed the step as an effort to move from discussion to implementation.

"If we could settle on the tactics that we've got now, we prioritize them in some way to say…

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