City Council Work Session

Mark Lighton a housing trust fund. You heard probably both of those at the housing strategic plan presentation that was given last month by TPMA. And we have been working on those and we'll be able to give you an update. And we need to get some feedback from you as far as what direction that we need to go in because there's some fairly significant work that will need to be done on each one of those. And so we just need to get a sense from council of kind of where you're at on these items. When we look at HCAB and we look at the purpose established, we came about as a result of a homelessness task force. In February of 2023, the homelessness task force was put together, was charged with looking at where we were within the city and coming up with

strategy report and then the strategic plan and one of the things we were able to do was to come and areas that we need to address as HCAB, and that is listed there under Resource and Services and Policy. We stayed very, very in touch with the Housing Strategic Plan to make sure that there was not things that they had that we didn't, and we think we have most of those covered in these items that are listed. Under Partnerships, under our Communications Plan and in collaboration with you seniors in the faith community, those are things that as we start putting these other items together that we will then be doing that outreach and working with those those partners because many of those fit within this

have a rent that is affordable and can help out somebody who already has that property and then also help somebody that needs affordable housing so this is one of the items we would like some feedback from City Council on tonight the second one that we have is a housing trust fund the city technically does not have a housing trust fund uh for we have a fund that we call a housing trust fund but if you look this has been recommended numerous times in 2013. it was recommended the city have a housing trust fund in 2018. the mayor's advisory committee on housing report recommended housing trust fund 2023 2025 and the affordable housing strategic plan was there and the comprehensive plan each one of those

thousand the end and that's all we have and we're not going to have any more or do we establish a trust fund where there's a recurring revenue source that We determine what are those things that will assist us in affordable housing and when you look there at identified uses And it looks like it based on the affordable or the comprehensive plan the affordable housing strategic plan And our survey and community surveys that affordable housing development preservation and rehabilitation and rent and mortgage relief would be great things to use for future if we have that recurrence dollar amount if we only had the five hundred and forty two thousand does it make sense to give that five hundred forty two thousand in one one or two larger pots rather than trying to

Jamie ErgasstaffAnd one of the actions that was recommended in the affordable housing strategic plan targets and what I'm hearing you saying is develop specific targets in the context of the definitions.

Thank you. Yeah, there was, as part of the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan, the development of that plan, housing survey that was completed this past spring that had 678 responses. So there's a dashboard actually up on the city's website now to kind of dissect what are the responses, what are people thinking, what's the affordability issues that they're mentioning. So it's a little bit deeper than perhaps the questions on the broader community survey. But I think hearing from people and understanding what they're looking for and what's needed in the community certainly needs to be at the forefront of the process. Excellent.

Thomas Petersonthey may shift when we take a regional cut at them, and that affects our stack of priorities and what we want to put our time and effort into. I also think I agree very much prevention. I mean, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the old saying. That gets to the underlying causes analysis, and I think it would be helpful to understand what is driving any of these areas and does that represent cost-effective point of intervention? And if so, what does that do to our set of strategies here that we might want to pursue? So, again, the regional lens and the look at the underlying drivers and where that leaves us in terms of points of intervention, you know, from a strategic planning standpoint, I think would be helpful in addition to these two areas.

Billy Batesthank you for the presentation I certainly look forward to supporting the adoption of the urban forest plan master plan and and I certainly also agree that making sure that these plans that efforts are made to implement these plans is important and that goes for this as well as the affordable housing strategic plan, the comprehensive plan, city bike plan, what have you. Each of those also have certain aspects that are relevant to sustainability and even to the urban forest and I think it's important to make sure that we're coordinating efforts in terms of those multiple plans and how they kind of overlap. And I also think it's important to point out that certainly forecasts and projections would also be worth exploring if possible.