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housing programs including information about the homeless outreach team. november 2012 brought together representative from the mayor's office on disability, senior and disability action and the mission sro collaborative to provide community perspectives on supportive housing and sro's. sro's are single room occupancy hotels. at the february meeting, they providing an overview of programs at the mayor's office of hope. hope stands for housing opportunity housing engagements. today we'll be hearing from the mayor's point of view on housing. we'll discuss proposition c, the affordable housing trust fund to expand on affordable housing in san francisco. it was the hope of many that the proposition c trust fund would
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replace the funds lost by the elimination by the redevelopment agency. while that maybe true in the long run, there may be likely declining budgets for the next several years. therefore it's of great concern for housing issues and interest in the presentation that i'm pleased to introduce trees i theresa i -- yonga. >> thank you for inviting us. i have a powerpoint presentation that i will put on the screen and try to describe to the best of my ability. so my apology in advance. the affordable housing trust fund as council member,
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thank you for the very good introduction was an initiative proposition c passed in november. we wanted to pass a little bit information about that about the problems that we work on and that what we have to work with in the future and given our funding source and our pipeline. what we would like to cover, i would like to cover this overview about who the mayor's office of housing is and a few of our programs. the document called the analysis of pediment report which is what we are required to do as part of our federal entitlement funds and what we found in that particular report and also go over prop c or the housing trust fund, a little bit overview on that and
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pipeline of affordable housing and our goals towards striving increased accessibility. so the mayor's office of housing we are the city's housing finance agencies especially in the light of redevelopment last year. we are tasked with the creation and preservation of affordable housing and we use a variety of funding sources. one of our primary ones is federal funding specifically the home program and the community development block grant funds or cd b g as they are commonly known. that is the entitlement as it comes from urban development from san francisco and it's nationwide. we also receive funding from the state. the department of housing and community development a particular program called cal
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home and locally we receive what are called housing fees and market rate developers when they bill below the rate market rates for inclusion housing rate and the housing trust fund. with redevelopment in 2012, we have lost approximately $50 million of an -- annual investment. the mayor's office of housing we have been named as the success or housing agent to redevelopment agency and now we have received the so-called assets of the former redevelopment agency that are in operation. we are also responsible for working with o
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is now known as the office of community investment and infrastructure. we are still responsible for doing major development areas in mission bay, transbay and hunters point shipyard candle stick point and we are going to work with their goals and production in those areas and lastly as success or and investment and infrastructure there is a particular obligation that they must replace 6700 units of affordable housing in the 60s 70s and it's called their housing demolition what some
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know as urban renewal. there is still 5800 units that need to be replaced. with the loss of redevelopment, the mayor's office of housing, has grown now to 8,000 units for the foreseeable future. >> we have a few documents and plans that we follow as our guiding documents just to put our work in context. one of the most important documents that we use is the consolidated plans. it's a five year planning document that we are mandated to prepare with a lot of public comments as how we use our federal entitlements and all of our public service grants and affordable housing production and trying to meet the needs of low income communities in san francisco. another key document is the san francisco tenure plan. you may
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have heard about this when you had the presentation from the human services agency or department of public health. hope sf which is our transformative document to tackle the dire conditions of the larger public developments like hunters view and portrero. another document is by the age use task force and that plan specifies a goal of building 400 units for housing transition age youth. transition age youth are from 18-24, youth emancipating out of foster care and the document which guides the homeless
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housing and homes services within the city and uses things like to federal mckinney program. the analysis of impediment of choice report which is a document to a consolidated plan. i will go over that more and lastly is the redevelopment area plans. since as working with the former redevelopment agency in mission bay, transbay and hunters point shipyard we are bound by those area plans and requirements under those plans for affordable housing in those areas. >> so the analysis of impediment for choice is a five year document that the housing development or hud identifies what are the impediments for
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housing choice within our jurisdiction and requires us to take appropriate actions to overcome the effects of any of those impediments and we are required to maintain records to reflect that analysis and actions we take. so some of the findings we have found with the analysis of fair housing include like discrimination for particular protective classes, affordability is one of the impediments as well as and of course access, just general access to housing that is affordable to certain populations like seniors or disabled or other classes. so next is an existing, one of the findings was trying to analyze our affordable housing that we try to finance in our
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portfolio. this is a findings of about 8537 affordable housing units that we over see that we helped finance over the years. so what we have found are units that are occupied by persons with an impairment, they are 1333 of those units out of 8537, about 16 percent of the housing that we assist are occupied by persons with an impairment. moving on housing with physical impairments out of that 8537 units, 16 percent are affected with personal with a physical impairment. moving to adaptable, about 30 percent or 2593 units out of that 8500 are adaptable and we also identify
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units that are ak ccessible to those that are visually impaired. 13 percent of our units are accessible to those that are visually or hearing impaired. these numbers are reported by our developers and project sponsors. they self report base on what they submit to us what we call annual monitoring. we don't do a thorough check wechl rely on what they self report. some of these numbers are percentages for visual impairment maybe the same units as visual or hearing can be the same as physical. there might be some double counting. i want to break those out to note. just to put it into context of the findings that we found, the units that
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we assist based on statistical data we found that about 10 percent of all san franciscans have a disability. this is based on the 2010 census. which is older data. based on the american community survey is what is considered low income household that we would serve those earning less than 50 percent median income are also those households. just to understand our housing now serves about 16 percent with 21 percent that are needed. we are not meeting everything, the needs that are out there but it's what we are striving to do with the future pipeline.
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>> so to go back in terms of the impediments the three areas, the first one is impediment related to housing affordability including issues specific to assisted housing programs and market rate housing. the second impediment in broad strokes is direct discrimination and thirdly impediment to specific classes such as seniors and people with disability, people with criticism records, immigrants or limited english proficiency. now onto the affordable housing trust fund. what is it and what does it fund? >> it's a general fundamental indication from the city's general fund. it is estimated to generate approximately $20
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million in the first year. we expect to get our first fund negative -- funding in july of this year. it is expected to grow. we won't necessarily receive that same level of funding until 12 years from now. and in 30 years, over the life of the trust fund as is projected to generated about $1.2 billion for affordable housing. it is under the trust fund and it's going to be allocated across a ray of programs for housing rental production and home ownership and housing stabilization programs. housing stabilization or definition is programs that
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are preserve affordable housing such as rehabilitation of single family homes and foreclosure prevention and led housing healthy to make sure they are habitable to resident. and reducing the residential protection cost that are required under our inclusionary housing program. so, to talk a little bit about the mayor's office housing current pipeline. as i mentioned before we have a pipeline of over 8,000 units for the foreseeable future. thanks to the redevelopment agency. we target specific populations in housing types. to highlight a few, we specifically work on housing towards supportive housing which is housing for the
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homeless or developmentally disabled. we have a particular goal for housing for transitions for youth and housing for seniors, housing for low income families, moderate income home ownership and housing replacement which serves seniors for our program. a large focus of our pipeline is the hope sf program because of the dire need and the scale of those developments. just to talk a little bit about our affordable housing production as it relates to accessibility. within the next 5-7 years we estimate we will be working towards the development about 1673 units. these are rehabilitation. majority of the housing is business or occupationing on in the next 5-7 years and about 90
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percent will be construction. of course what we are required to do for accessibility is the 5 percent minimum for mobility impairment as well as additional 2 percent for visually and hearing impaired. button top of that, we also require for new construction or have a goal that the remaining units be adaptable so they can be adjusted for full accessibility. since we have an at some point to create full accessible units for new construction. rehabilitation which is a smaller portion of our pipeline, about 10 percent, we are still required the 5 percent accessibility for mobility impaired as well as additional 2 percent for visually and hearing impaired and we always strive to have an adaptable goal with our
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rehabilitation projects, but unfortunately it various -- varies a lot because of the conditions of the buildings. a lot of buildings we are rehabilitating are older buildings from anywhere from 1910-1980s. those units were built with different codes and we are trying to balance and maximizing accessibility in those rehabilitated units with not losing a lot of affordable housing units. it's a fine line trying to strive to maintain a balance of those. i just want to highlight a few examples of housing we have produced in the past year. 150 otis, c
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landmark. it's 75 brand new studio units with full baths and kitchen. it serves homeless veterans. we managed to achieve a hundred percent of the units hundred percent accessible or adaptable. it opened late last year. another project is current under construction is 1075 l.a.cont, around 3rd street. 72 units serving homeless families and transition youth. 10-70 units are adaptable and 10-20 units are serving the visually and hearing impaired. >> next is 1184th street in
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mission bay. this is a new development of 124 units for serving very low income families including homeless families. 5-7 units will be ak ccessible and with 20 percent for hearing and visually impaired. lastly, this is a project that we are very proud of is 220 golden gate, the adaptive reuse of what is known as the central ymca. that was a rehabilitation of that building of historic landmark into 174 studios. serving the homeless and 85 percent are for the accessible and 85 percent are adaptable and it also includes a state of the art health
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clinic run by the department of public health to serve the homeless and it just opened up this year. that concludes my presentation and i'm here for any questions that you might have. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation. now we are going to open this up to the council members first for comments and then we will take public comment after that. >> council members? >> skip? >> hi. thank you so much for your presentation and i have a few questions. i will try to be quick there is a lot of numbers thrown around. i want to make sure that i understand fully. on the first slide you said that there were replacement
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housing obligations and you said there were 5800 units still to be replaced. are those part of the 8,000? >> yes. their considered the replacement housing. yes. >> okay. great. in the plans to redo public housing, the large public housing projects, how much of that -- did you give us figures on how much that was accessible? >> because those are all new construction units. what we'll be doing is tearing those units down. we'll be using the same construction goals of 5 percent and 2 percent and a hundred percent adaptable to the extent so you know, the director knows one of our products that is just finishing now is hunters view and it's in a steep area. we are trying to get the
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topography. >> i imagine that is challenging and open space requirements for projects too, are there not? >> yes. >> i have one more question, comment. i thought i did. i wanted to know is this in the beginning we are not getting the 50 million replaced for several years, how much of demand is out pacing supply during these next 10-12 years until we can get back to a level? >> let's say twice as much. the fact that redevelopment agency used to provide $50 million on average and we are only getting $20 million from the housing trust fund. our production doesn't necessarily decrease, but the amount of funds and resources has been cut in half. >> and we weren't providing
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accessible housing for everyone with the redevelopment agency so there is a lot of work to be done? >> exactly. more work. >> thank you. >> i want to ask the question. where do you apply for the new one on 3rd and the one that's going to be on the mission bay? where do you apply for these? >> those projects are not yet taking applications. for the one at 1075 lacont, it's for homeless so it's through different access points like service providers workingwith the housing human agency. and 1114, that one is only maybe 30 percent construction. that won't be accepting any applications for many months. >> will this be in 2014? >> this will be 2014, towards
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the end of the year. >> maybe when you come back you will have that information. >> sure. we'll be posting information on our website when applications are available. >> excuse me, harriet wong? >> hello. this isn't really a question but hopefully it's something that can be taken into consideration. as my children were growing up and i do have a child with a disability, i work part-time and i did apply for the bmr's. i actually tried three times
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and every time you apply for a bmr, you have about 7-10 days to get all your paperwork together. so you are working and running around like crazy getting all your papers together and then everything is by lottery. so you go there in the morning early in the morning and so one time i might have came pretty close but i still didn't get it. but i noticed that one of the people that did get it was a single person and much younger and anyway, by the time i became 50 years old i gave up on the whole thing , but maybe something can be taken into consideration here that maybe she should see how many times the person actually tried to apply for this lottery process
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and other people are much younger and they still have time. "see what i'm saying"? i just wanted to bring that up. >> i will bring that comment back up to our office. >> thank you very much. thank you presenter. we have public comment now and we would ask because we are running a little bit behind time. we would ask if you would keep it to two minutes. thank you very much, you guys. >> good afternoon. it's good to see theresa in person. she was on the phone when the business community housing was going up and violating a number of city and county regulation. i had to
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zap them on that. tour -- you are to notify the neighborhood. i applied for shelter plus care in 1999. i was in my 50s. i did not get placed until 2005 due to lottery. so, just needed to tell you that. that's the way it works. i needed to bring to the attention on the mayor's office on housing that there needs to be oversight accountability and auditing. we have people dying in their apartments and not found for days because social services is too busy socializing than keeping track of people and frankly i'm sick and tired to hear from the clerk that the person is found dead or have
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the police next door because they missed a dialysis. you need to find out what the social services are doing and give them direction and audit them on what they are doing with the money. you spend the money on surround sound and spend the money makes mow sense and you need to make sure they are compliant with federal and ream accommodation. that is not happening. you need to have the oversight, the auditing, the accountability and what happens, negative consequences for inappropriate behavior because it's not happening now. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> bruce? i'm bruce allison
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for magazine. i'm on fixed social security income. after i pay my rent of $600 then i pay for food. we need to make more housing about 20-30 percent lower due to a lot of us disability. i do have two disabilities, bad back and dyslexia. and due to that, our income is very limited. we need more low income housing at 20 and 30 percent. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>
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