The California Coastal Commission has rejected a challenge against temporary housing for about 60 people living on a Bolinas ranch.

County managers are recommending that supervisors spend $500K of the $21M budget for new, one-time projects to address substandard rural housing.

"In a departure from the ‘Housing First’ model, steps are underway to provide emergency housing for farmworkers in Bolinas. An imaginative approach and speedy action on the part of the nonprofit Bolinas Community Land Trust resulted in a first-rate temporary solution that is already up and running."

The Bolinas Community Land Trust’s creation of emergency housing on a large parcel off Mesa Road is an example of a community taking care of its own.

"Marin County supervisors allocated $622,000 on Tuesday to help provide emergency housing for approximately 60 people who have been living in substandard conditions for years in Bolinas."

"The Bolinas Community Land Trust is attempting to raise more than $2.59 million to provide emergency housing using recreational vehicles for people who have been living in substandard conditions for years in western Marin.

The trust plans to install 27 recreational vehicles with utility connections and a new mound septic system on a 20-acre parcel at 130 Mesa Road. Water for the project would be supplied despite Bolinas’ moratorium on new water connections by reallocating water from other land trust properties."