Field notes for corridor housing.

Short, evergreen notes on the constraints that decide HCV, RCFE, and transitional housing deals. Educational only, no dated figures, and not legal, tax, or investment advice.

Interactive tools

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Six educational calculators: Housing Choice Voucher rent-cap, development feasibility, residential care conversion, impact-housing fit, a pre-letter-of-intent deal screener, and a comparable-sales property value estimate.

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What makes a small building HCV-ready

NSPIRE readiness, insurability, and rent reasonableness decide whether voucher-anchored income is real.

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Reading an RCFE conversion honestly

R-3.1, the licensing path, and staffing math determine whether a six-bed care use is feasible.

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Transitional housing needs a partner

Program- and contract-anchored housing works with a services partner, not as a solo landlord bet.

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Hazard screening basics

Wildfire, flood, and insurability are screened up front, because they quietly kill cheap-looking deals.

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The Oakland-to-Sonoma corridor

Why we stay Sonoma-first and underwrite the submarkets we can read rather than chasing a radius.

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Redacted opportunity patterns

How public cards show lane, submarket, stage, and constraints without exposing private detail.

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