Santa Maria Valley Summit Highlights Partnerships as Key to Creating More Housing
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“Elon always says before you go and improve a requirement or before you go to automate a system question if the requirement and the system are necessary,” Bradley said.
“I think oftentimes in conversations like this we say, ‘It’s California. It’s just hard. It’s a hard state to be in.’ Sure, but why are we making it hard to be in this county, or this city, or this neighborhood?”
“I challenge you all to ‘make your requirements less dumb,'” Bradley said, repeating Musk’s motto and prompting those in the audience to applaud.
More housing is especially needed since forecasts for Vandenberg military programs, SpaceX and other aerospace contractors at Vandenberg Space Force Base call for expansion of their activities and workforce growth in the coming years, boosting the housing need.
“The big challenge with us is the lack of available and affordable housing,” said Tom Stevens, executive director of Vandenberg SFB’s primary unit, Space Launch Delta 30.
While Vandenberg has housing, the number covers slightly less than half of the military members assigned to the base.
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The base has about 1,000 homes, and expanding its inventory would involve the Department of Defense via a Housing Requirements and Marketing Analysis, which will take place this year.
The last study assessing availability and other factors for housing on base and in surrounding communities occurred in 2006, when the activity and local economy differed significantly.
“We’re hopeful,” Stevens said. “That HRMA study will be huge on whether there’s a decision made to go build more housing.”
Speaking about housing demands on behalf of employers during the Santa Maria Valley Housing Summit are Tom Stevens, executive director of Space Launch Delta 30 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, and Blake Bradley from SpaceX.
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