Yolo County Housing unveils first agencywide five‑year strategic plan, prioritizes resident services and new construction

Ian Evans, executive director of Yolo County Housing, presented the agency’s first organization‑wide five‑year strategic plan to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, outlining goals to expand affordable housing production, strengthen resident services and improve internal administration.

The plan is structured around three pillars — people, housing and administration — and includes targets such as increasing homeownership opportunities for participants and growing the agency’s portfolio. Evans described the housing pillar as the most developed because it reflects the agency’s core work of owning, managing and operating affordable units and administering vouchers.

Why it matters: Yolo County Housing manages public housing, voucher programs and migrant centers that serve farmworker families; changes in its portfolio and operations affect hundreds of households countywide and intersect with state and federal funding and program rules.

Evans said the agency currently owns about 1,100 affordable housing units and manages roughly 1,500 leased housing choice vouchers countywide. He described long wait lists: “For our housing choice voucher program,…