
The city of Sebastopol is backing out of a housing project for people with extremely low or no incomes. The Sebastopol City Council says it worries the city would be forced to complete construction or operate the housing project if its nonprofit developer cannot. Last May, that developer, Saint Vincent de Paul, was granted approval from the council to continue with the 22-unit permanent supportive housing project. The six-point-five-million-dollar housing project was going to be built on a property owned by the charity. For two years, the property had been home to a temporary RV village for homeless people, which closed in late March.