The Marin County Board of Supervisors will consider awarding $810,000 in grants to fund affordable housing in West Marin County Tuesday, including by tapping into money from the area’s Measure W.
Measure W was passed by voters in West Marin in 2018 and established an extra 4% tax on short term rentals in 2018 to fund affordable housing in the coastal area of the county.
The nonprofit organization Community Land Trust Association of West Marin, which goes by the acronym CLAM, applied for the money to fund repairs of a housing development in Point Reyes Station and renovations of the rectory at Sacred Heart Parish, off state Highway 1 in the unincorporated area of Olema, according to a news release from the county’s Community Development Agency.
The effort to rehabilitate the total of seven housing units comes with the goal of providing more coastal housing options for ranch workers, which are very limited, and are currently needed urgently as about 127 workers from 37 households are facing displacement because of ranches closing or dangerous living conditions, according to the county.
The property in Point Reyes Station is located at 55/65 2nd Street. It was purchased by CLAM in July 2025 and has three housing units, including a three-bedroom home and a two-bedroom home for families, and one junior accessory dwelling unit, or JADU.
The Board of Supervisors will consider awarding CLAM $300,000 from the county’s Affordable Housing Trust and $210,000 from Measure W funds.
The Board will consider another $300,000 to fund the renovation of four housing units on the property of Sacred Heart Parish, which is being leased by CLAM from the Archdiocese of San Francisco for nine years, according to the Community Development Agency.