How higher costs can hurt local housing construction

A recent Windsor Town Council meeting sounded like a battle of the builder budgets, with one saying that costs to build housing in certain areas of the region require more single-family homes, while another countering that nonprofit homebuilders were able to get subsidized single-family homes built in the region for less.

Steve Reilly of 330 Land Co. is the latest developer to take on reworking the long-vacant Windsorland mobile home park at 9290 Old Redwood Highway into permanent dwellings. Reilly tried to convince council members that the realities of what it costs today to build market-rate apartments and town homes necessitate leniency on how many housing units are required to be built on the 18.3-acre property. Reilly advocates for construction of detached single-family homes that are in reach of first-time homebuyers.

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