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and capture the value created through that potential for the units for the public housing replacement units. on top of the property value itself, we also plan to capture -- in terms of property tax revenue, or we would not exist for the city. this is against the future tax revenues, so these in combination created cross subsidizing component. second is focusing city investment, so f8u and certainly supervisor maxwell, as well as the board of supervisors has committed local financing to
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this over a 20-year period to help facilitate the local peace -- piece of the public housing part. for almost a decade now, we have not been able to capture financing from the federal government, and yet, the problem continues to get worse, so, f.a.q, supervisors, for stepping up and for the city of san francisco say we are not going to let this problem continue to languish, and we're going to commit some local sources. along with the local sources for public housing is the idea did to take the existing capital we use for products across the city that might benefit this site, and what comes through the mayor's office that we spend city-wide into focus that on developing new tax credit affordable housing as part of
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the housing ladder on part of that site, so, again, aligning the existing city resources and focus in that on these sites, and then, finally compaq -- finally, and significantly important is leveraging private, state, and federal resources, so i am pleased to report that on hunters view, we have been very successful at the state level, moderately successful, particularly, due to the director at the housing authority, in aligning some resources towards hunters view, and we are still very much looking to continue the success with this program, which we did not get the last amount, but we're confident in our abilities. president maxwell: so the land that we have the we are going to be building new housing on, do
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we have to pay anything for that, or is that as part of what we already have? do we have to pay for the market rate for the affordable? >> we do not. we can think directort -- hank thank director alvarez. particularly with the financing mechanism, they are contributing lands, including the market rate pieces, which we will sell off and use those proceeds for the public housing replacements, and they are going to be affordable rent things sites -- rental sides. s -- ites. the housing authority will have the opportunity to buy those sites backed -- back but
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assuming the debt. -- by assuming the debt. so our schedule in moving forward in very brief detail, and there is a lot more behind the scenes going on here, but, hopefully, we've already started on phase one hunters view, and some of you, certainly supervisor maxwell, was out there for a big celebration. we have completed the demolition of the phase one buildings, and we are very much focused on starting the underground work, will recall the horizontal and for structure work on the site this fall. we are pointing out that we will be back aunt -- back in front of you hopefully in september with a number of items trying to get hunter's you going, some of them financial, including the $30 million of state grant money that we have an run that to the city and the development entity,
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and we will have to give your approval on that as well as our public debt financing mechanism, our certificates of participation, which we will need approval on those before we can finalize the financing of the phase one housing peace, and then lastly, more technically, the infrastructure piece will be on the plants, -- pklans, -- plans, which need to be finalized. president maxwell: what is our interest rate? >> our interest rate is likely to be 0%, because we have what is called soft get on the side on top of the project. -- soft debt. in particular, with the infill grant program, because it is not our money, and we are essentially the condit, our main
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goal is to ensure that, because we will be taking on some of the responsibilities that go to the state for that money and as a recipient, we expect that to be passed along to the developer, we are not looking actually to get that money paid back. korea a whole lot of additional housing money that we do have money on, and hopefully, over time, we will get it paid back from the available revenue. so, secondly, alice griffith, which, again, you're all familiar with the candlestick park phase one plan, which is winding down this month, and, of course, there are key components of approving that, which really will be moving full steam ahead on alice griffith, and we of the developer ready to engage the residents on a more detailed planning process on that.
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we have got others at, sunnyvales -- unnydale, and they have submitted for their environmental review to the planning department, which as you all know, it takes quite a bit of work. both of those programs have significant community facilities that they would like to accomplish, which take a lot of additional funding beyond the master plan but with the other city departments, and then, finally, as i mentioned earlier, hopefully getting into exclusive negotiating rights on kirkland yard with the mta. supervisor chiu: i know we had a conversation but kirkland yard, but where is the mta proof that they want to let it go? >> -- where is the mta?
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that they want to let it go? >> we agreed that the next steps would be to have a citizens advisory committee and see what their response would be. there is absolutely nothing that has been agreed upon by the mta. if people are excited about it, -- we are looking for your feedback on that. supervisor chiu: i look
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i know that amy is going to touch on the human capital side and the working with the residents some, and margaret campo from the developer is here. margaret regularly meets with the tenant association and members of the community, if you want more defail on that. -- more detail on that. 700,000 units will be replaced bedroom for bedroom. so if we hadn't said so already, it is certainly and clearly our hope as a pilot project, first out of the gate. it has actually been in the works before hope s.f.. in some respects, hope s.f. came about in part from what we
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learned in our work today. we have master planned the site. we were with you for the whole approval and the design for development plan for the 700-plus unit community that is there. we are ready to start on phase one. we have started on phase one. we're ready to start the infrastructure on phase one and we'll be doing that shortly. this is probably about as broad of a public-private partnership as i would imagine one could expect. doug mentioned seven sister city agencies that we're working with. on the human capital side, i would say we have as many on the real estate structure, including the p.u.c., planning department, department of public works, building department, m.o.d., et cetera. so a very broad-based public partnership, and then, of course, our developer, the one
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actual actually financing and doing the work a partnership of ridge development and a local nonprofit based in the area. they have a long history of both public housing revital zation -- revitalization, et cetera. >> if someone starts to move away during the development, can you plane the right of return to be able to move back once it's built? >> absolutely. i will ask for help if i'm stepping on my toes, but the housing authority commission has passed formal policy, a right to revite lies -- revitalize housing property. that means any resident that starts from the time we start working on hope s.f. that
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remains in good standing has the right to a new unit once the site is revitalized. even if they move off site for their own reasons. there have been a handful of people that have requested to move off site, generally for medical reasons, and we've accommodated those requests. regardless of that fact those fokse folks have gone off site, they will have the chance to come back to the site as well. that's again, as doug hit on, our number one priority, and hope s.f. is making sure that the benefits of the investment are there for the existing residents. >> and somebody in good standing? >> i'm going to ask for help on that one. >> good afternoon. i'm henry alvarez from the housing authority.
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very simply, it is someone who has not been formally evicted for any reason. we haven't evicted anyone in over a year from hunter's view. but if you are not in that process, then you have the right to return. and we are tracking every individual who has lived there from the beginning of this process so that if they have to move out for any reason, whether it is medical or it's a disability or we can't accommodate on the site, later when the buildings are put back together, we can give those families an opportunity to return. that's what formalizes -- that was formalized in a board resolution by the housing board. so it is not only our intent, it is the board's policy. >> and out -- president maxwell: and out of all the people who have moved from hunter's view, how many have left the site? >> to our knowledge, there have been several who left the site for medical reends or to
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accommodate their disability. when you think of that, it was an opportunity for people to get closer to the medical communities for treatment or an opportunity to -- for them to get closer to families who could help. but we tracked those folks. as we get closer to the completion of the new buildings, we would be happy to return them should they wish to return. president maxwell: so out of how many people? you had seven out of -- >> 7 out of 55. president maxwell: so you moved 55 households, and out of the 55 households, only seven folks moved off site? >> that's correct. yes, ma'am.
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>> so real quickly i'm going to move this along. potentially starting on infrastructure for phase one of alice grith he have -- griffeth. hopefully for the potrero plans. and what doug mentioned in response to supervisor chiu, if kirkland does move forward, engaging in a more formal planning process. i won't go through that, but you can see on the presentation, the proposals for 2012, as well. so a few of our real estate accomplishments to date, i will highlight for you. hunter's view, we have the most to brag about, our pilot project as we have been touching on. we have relocated all the
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phase-one residents. the vast majority of which have stayed on site. we have been awarded $40 million in state funding. $8 million in federal funding thanks to the housing authority. the majority of that has been funding which the housing authority is committed to in conjunction with hope s.f. we committed the phase one, and we have gotten scant attention already -- we have gotten significant attention already for phase one. chair maxwell: how much is phase one's budget? >> i believe it is around $71 million. that includes housing and infrastructure. potrero, sunnydale, and westside
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courts have all, i think, tremendously successful community engagement processes around the site planning. i think we have all gotten good public use, but you are on the planning committee, and i believe we have achieved strong consensus on potrero and sunnydale. we have had a minimal, if any, significant negative uproar, if you will, from the public. it has been phenomenal. chair maxwell: i would have to say, members of those communities have been really partners with the folks living in those developments. they have come to meetings and wanting to be a part of it, but the meetings were on site. they were there. if they were off site they were
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there. it has been a great community building tool. >> exactly. thank you. and hope s.f. revitalization has attempted to do community
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neighborhood. there are three ways. we have kecked existing residents to the existing services that will help them stablize their lives and meet the needs of their families. some of the types of issues that we have found so far in our service connection work is that
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family's need work with their kids' after-school program, they need job placement and training programs to allow them to prepare for the work. all that we consider to be our service connection model. in that we very well plans for each of the residents to very well plans whether or not they are making progress toward very welling their lives. so that by the time revitalization begins, they are ready to meet their needs.
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community. we have been meeting with the residents about the master planning. the ultimate goal being, we want to make sure residents have a hand, as well as making sure residents can be educated so they can educate their neighborhoods about what's going neighborhood to come up with that master plan would be. now we are at the in the where we are at transition on the community piece. we did all this work as well as the other predevelopment sites, and now we have cdbg funds to support community building going
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forward. each community is able to identify, which are the needs that i want to engage the other residents around. there is a huge concern on some sites about safety. they will be engaging residents on this site with regard to safety. there is also a lot of work around the ability to be able to link schools to the development, and there is a huge interest on one particular site to do that type of work. the third main area within the human capital development component, helping residents, is really about engaging resident leadership development in a way that empowers the residents to participate. so what we found when we first embarked upon working with the residents is we felt it was important to be educated about the process.
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so we created an academy, and in that academy, we have graduated two classes already. in that academy, they learned about leadership development skills, they learned to engidge their rezz -- engage their residents, and they learned to graduate. there were so many grate are graudjod are -- there were so many great outcomes. that academy is actually doing the same process of the adults. so we're excited that we have reputation from each of our sites in the academy, and we actually launched our first summit for the youth academy that we held at u.c. berkeley in june. we are looking forward to great things from the youth. >> very, very briefly into one
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aspect of those three main areas that we focus on. that is our service connection model. we are very proud of the service collection model. they can actually use that to progress their lives. so briefly, the goal is to stablize the families, as i mentioned before. we were very intentional about creating a service network that's behind the service connection m working with that. we have been able to bring the human services agency to the
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table. the office of economic work force and development, the housing authority, sfra. it really is a collaborative mode. not only for programming, but how we direct those. there is a strong focus on work force development. chair maxwell: i just wanted to
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say, this is really an historic model. we have not done this before in san francisco. we worked very, very hard to get this model, because at one time it was just hands off. that was h.u.d. we did not have our services in there. we had nothing going on. and then one day, the light came on, and we did some work, we did some legislative work, and found out that indeed we could have more of an active role in those areas. that's what you are seeing now. you are seeing that the city is truly, truly engaged in every single agency that we have. that these folks are citizens of san francisco, and for the first time, we are treating them like that. i know we are going to
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going to bring new people in. i think we have seen that felt that all along. so this is really historical, and i want to make sure you are all aware of that, that this has to be continuous. we can't just leave that. those of us who are here, have to continue having hearings and checking it and making sure things are continuing. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor chiu: could you talk for a moment about some of the circumstances you have had so it is easier for us to put this in perspective. >> absolutely. i will use hunter's view as a model. a couple things we have been able to achieve, we have been able to refer folks that did assessment to various programs. whether it be to ramp referral, to the jobs now program, or
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whether it be to work with other programs, positive directions that would work out with substance abuse issues, whether it is sending them to other types of work readiness programs around the city, to get them ready for sector academies. so we have had a lot of success in doing referrals. we have had a lot of success in doing placements. which were able to place out of doing that connection work about 50 individuals the first year. the first year the funding for this program was supported by the children's youth and families as well as the mayor's office of housing as well as the redevelopment agency. we have been able to create a model that is sustainable as the supervisor said over the long