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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 housing and homes services within the city and uses things like to federal mckinney program. the analysis of impediment of choice report
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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 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
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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 portfolio. this is a report of findings of about 8537 affordable housing units that we over see that we helped finance over the years. so what
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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 units that are ak ccessible to those that are visually impaired. 13 percent of our units are accessible to those
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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 we assist based on statistical data we found that about 10 percent of all san franciscans have a disability. this is
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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. >> so to go back in terms of the impediments the three areas, the first one is impediment related to housing
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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 million in the first year. we expect to get our first fund negative -- funding in july of
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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 are preserve affordable housing such as rehabilitation of single family homes and foreclosure prevention and led
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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 homeless or developmentally disabled. we have a particular goal for housing for transitions for youth and housing for seniors, housing for low income families,
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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 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
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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 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
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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, a city landmark. it's 75 brand new studio units with full baths and kitchen. it serves homeless
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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 mission bay. this is a new development of 124 units for serving very low income families including homeless
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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 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
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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 housing obligations and you said there were 5800 units still to be replaced. are those part of the 8,000? >> yes. their considered the
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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 topography. >> i imagine that is challenging and open space requirements for projects too, are there not? >> yes. >> i have one more question,
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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 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.
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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 working with 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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 for magazine. i'm on fixed social security income. after i
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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. >> jerry and this is public comment on this team. >> i know. >> thank you. >> i have a request about the houses and i wanted to know, i
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know some of the places on mission bay is just bringing up to our attention today. and i wanted to know any places is working on right now. i know one on -- street is one building is knocked down and i don't know what they are doing at that point. my question are they rebuilding that and another thing, that building. i think everybody moved out of that building to the other building. that's what i wanted to know. another part i wanted to know on how many more buildings you will make in the city and when you will build it. please answer the question please. thank you.
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>> behind the bridge line? >> no one? thank you. is there anymore public comment? okay. guys, seeing there is no more public comment, we are going to -- one more? is it on this item? okay. i'm with senior and disability action, my name is tony robles. one of the concerns we have for people on ssi who are living with disabilities, overcoming disabilities, thriving with disabilities in the face of a lot of barriers. how a lot of the housing is not accessible to people on ssi because of the
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financial requirements. that's something to look into. one thing i would like to say is that i think it's been a very long-term pro attracted policy within san francisco to have communities not survive, i think redevelopment had a big part in that. i can say that because my family was displaced from the western addition. my grandmother had a house there in 1930. we are one of the early families that lived in the fillmore and we were displaced. i had family who were involved in the i hotel struggle. we know what happened with that. we know that in the early days, african americans, people were saying, are you going to stay here. the war is over. are you going back home
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to arkansas and texas and oklahoma. there was a plan with the city planners and the city's founders to do away with our neighborhoods, to do away with our cultural places, our places that we convened and came together. so for those of us that have been in san francisco for a long time, myself, i have been here 50 years. i feel like we are losing our culture and it's very sad. for those of us that are like myself and like people that who i grew up with and people in my family, we are just trying to keep what we have and housing is it. housing, health, it's all inter connected. thank you. >> thank you. >> to the chair, could i make a quick comment as well. thank you so much for that opportunity. i wanted to thank our speaker from the mayor's
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office of housing for coming and giving the presentation today. i want to remind council that housing is one of our most important programs at the mayor's office on disability and that each of those beautiful projects that were shown up on the screen are projects that our office has done, the plan check and field inspection on to make sure we can get the most accessibility out of that. i also wanted to clarify the term adaptable housing versus accessible house. one thing about adaptable housing is it's large enough and the doors are wide enough and has blocking in the walls that will help you create an accessible unit. that 93 percent figure that you saw on that graph is a really important component in this package because that can be accessible housing. that's all i had to add, thank you.
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>> thank you. okay, we are going to take a ten minute break and we'll be right back. thank you very > >> let's get started on the second half of our meeting. team 7. accessible parking improvement. we'll have two speaker and take council member questions and then public comment and we have interim thank you. normally you see me on the other side. this day i'm here as carla johnson, coy
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chair of the advisable committee. i'm here to take an at some opportunity to introduce everybody. i will be speaking and bob will be speaking and so will jessie lorentz. in the room we have bob in the community. we also have bonnie of access northern california over here to the house left. we have christina here at the house right. jessie lorentz from the living resource center and via hale representing seniors and my cochair