Sept. 10, 2025
The Sacramento Housing Alliance is calling on city leaders to reject a developer’s appeal to downzone key parcels in Crocker Village from multifamily to single-family housing, arguing that such a move would worsen Sacramento’s housing crisis, undermine state housing laws, and betray commitments to fair housing.
In a letter sent on August 28 to Mayor Kevin McCarty and the Sacramento City Council, the Housing Alliance urged the Council to uphold the Planning Commission’s decision to deny the downzoning of the multifamily parcel and to reconsider the approval of downzoning for the Flex Parcel. “Downzoning multifamily sites during an unprecedented housing crisis is unjustified and will further exacerbate the hardships too many Sacramentans face in finding housing they can afford and violates state legal requirements to affirmatively further fair housing,” the letter stated.
The group said the city has a serious unmet need for housing affordable to lower-income residents and that any reduction in multifamily sites will only push that goal further out of reach. “We need more affordable housing NOW! Don’t reduce the opportunity to build housing affordable to families struggling to make ends meet,” the organization wrote in its public statement.