Ojai's Affordable Housing Woes with Michelaina Johnson

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Sep 15, 2020 · 1h 6m

Michelaina Johnson, a Ph.D candidate in the Environmental Studies program at UC Santa Cruz, spent a year researching the lack of affordable housing in Ojai and possible solutions. The results of that research were published in a highly readable account in the Fall issue of Ojai Quarterly.

Johnson has deep roots in the community, going back generations, and she was hearing from her many local friends about their struggles to find housing in Ojai, a struggle made more difficult by the pandemic. In her thorough story, she asks local leaders and citizens about the problem and what to do about it…