• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Before Header

Donate

UC_iST_1c_Blue

Inquiry with impact

  • About
    • What is Social Transformation?
    • Meet the Team
    • Partners
      • Campus Partners
      • Off-Campus Partners
    • Help Us Grow
    • Contact Us
  • Areas of Work
    • AgTech
    • All-In Conference
    • Campus + Community
    • Global and Community Health
    • New Gen Learning
    • Public Interest Technology
    • Right Livelihood College
    • Salton Sea Project
    • SEACoast
    • Social Sciences Centers
    • Solidarity Economics
    • Urban Environment & Justice
  • Fellows
    • Faculty Fellows
    • Building Belonging Fellows
    • Transforming Futures Interns
  • Funding Opportunities
    • Catalyze Awards
    • Emerging Scholar Support
    • Building Belonging Program
    • Transforming Futures
    • Global and Community Health Wellbeing Awards
  • Publications Library
    • Publications
    • Better World Books
    • Resource Guides
      • Anti-racism and Criminal Justice Reform
      • Immigrant Rights and Immigration Reform
    • COVID-19 Response
    • Journal of International Society and Culture
    • Video Library
    • Audio Library
    • Q&A with Changemakers
    • Partner Publications
  • News & Events
    • Featured News
    • In the Media
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • Conferences
      • Upcoming Conferences
      • Past Conferences
  • About
    • What is Social Transformation?
    • Meet the Team
    • Partners
      • Campus Partners
      • Off-Campus Partners
    • Help Us Grow
    • Contact Us
  • Areas of Work
    • AgTech
    • All-In Conference
    • Campus + Community
    • Global and Community Health
    • New Gen Learning
    • Public Interest Technology
    • Right Livelihood College
    • Salton Sea Project
    • SEACoast
    • Social Sciences Centers
    • Solidarity Economics
    • Urban Environment & Justice
  • Fellows
    • Faculty Fellows
    • Building Belonging Fellows
    • Transforming Futures Interns
  • Funding Opportunities
    • Catalyze Awards
    • Emerging Scholar Support
    • Building Belonging Program
    • Transforming Futures
    • Global and Community Health Wellbeing Awards
  • Publications Library
    • Publications
    • Better World Books
    • Resource Guides
      • Anti-racism and Criminal Justice Reform
      • Immigrant Rights and Immigration Reform
    • COVID-19 Response
    • Journal of International Society and Culture
    • Video Library
    • Audio Library
    • Q&A with Changemakers
    • Partner Publications
  • News & Events
    • Featured News
    • In the Media
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • Conferences
      • Upcoming Conferences
      • Past Conferences

Mobile Menu

Donate
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

No Place Like Home: Affordable Housing in Crisis, Santa Cruz County, CA

By: Miriam Greenberg, Steven McKay, James Sirigotis, with Thao Le (UC Santa Cruz)

August 2021

A UCSC student living in her car and the woods above campus

Santa Cruz County—located on the Central Coast of California and well known for its beaches, university, and alternative, laid-back culture—has recently become renowned for another feature: It is one of the least affordable metropolitan areas in the United States and globally to live.

Sixty percent of the City of Santa Cruz residents, and 40 percent of Santa Cruz County residents, are renters, with the median rent pushing past $3,000 per month. Santa Cruz is also the metro area with the highest rate of homelessness in the nation. Santa Cruz’s housing crisis has many facets—extreme rent burdens, precarious living situations, widespread displacement, and homelessness—with enormous impacts on the community and region.

The No Place Like Home (NPLH) report is the culmination of a three-year mixed-method, multimedia research project, conducted by faculty and students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and their community-based partners, with the goal of understanding the affordable housing crisis and its lessons for the region and beyond. Between 2016 and 2018, the research team surveyed tenants, interviewed a range of stakeholders, gathered photographic evidence of housing conditions, and researched historical trends and policy options.

This report synthesizes the research in three main areas: the roots of the crisis, its ramifications for different populations and geographies, and potentially impactful political and policy responses.

Download the full report hereDownload

For more information on the No Place Like Home research project, including interactive maps and policy tools, visit noplacelikehome.ucsc.edu.

In the Media

September 30, 2021 – UCSC professors studying Santa Cruz housing crisis look to eviction moratorium expiration. Sociology Professor Miriam Greenberg and Associate Professor Steven McKay talked with Santa Cruz Sentinel about the pandemic’s effect on the local housing crisis.

September 16, 2021 – Solving the housing crisis: a talk with Prof. Steve McKay. Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay talked with KSQD about affordable housing issues in Santa Cruz, the impact of the pandemic, and possible solutions.


Report Citation: Greenberg, Miriam, Steve McKay, James Sirigotis, and Thao Le. 2021. No Place Like Home: Affordable Housing in Crisis, Santa Cruz County, CA. UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation,
https://transform.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/No_Place_Like_Home_Report_2021.pdf


Category: Publications

You May Also Be Interested In:

Building Belonging fellows

Building Belonging Student Flash Talks 2022

All-In square

All-In Conference Agenda

Screen-Shot-2022-05-27-at-11.34.27-AM

Salton Sea Initiative Track One: Measuring and Developing Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable Economies

John_Lewis_Illustration_Ideas-01

Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis

Colette Pichon Battle 2019 Obama Fellow  Photo by: Chuck Kennedy

#WeChooseNow: Climate Justice From the Southern Frontlines

All-In square

All-In Conference Scholarships

ClappingChildren

The Right to Play: A Policy Guide to California Recess Priorities

All-In square

All-In Conference Logistics

cer_in_contentious_times_-_some_reflections_feature_image

Community-Engaged Research (CER) in Contentious Times: Some Reflections

Previous Post: «Youth power Emerging Youth Power in the Inland Empire
Next Post: Solidarity Economics: OUR Movement, OUR Economy Solidarity Economics Instagram_Twitter Post_v1»

Footer

Hex_iST_orange (1)
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Contact

Division of Social Sciences
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
email: transform@ucsc.edu

Resources

Anti-Racism
Immigration Reform
Faculty Resources
Media Kit

Newsletter

Sign up to receive the newsletter.

Site Footer

soc_sci_white
  • Accreditation
  • Non-Discrimination Policy
  • Land Acknowledgement
  • Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
  • Sexual Violence Prevention & Response

Copyright © 2022 UCSC Institute for Social Transformation · All Rights Reserved