Jewish in the community. Welcome, katherine and david. Thank you for having us. I know the Jewish Community federation, the National Nonprofit have been working on the issue of how paying attention for decades no and i want to just ask you, whats the latest interration coming out of the jewish bay area here . Thank you, for asking, eric. We started a program late last summer called lgbtq, Leadership Development and then lunch, in november, actually technically, with 12 members and it initial cohort. The program was designed to bring folks who identify lbgt to the table, the proverbial decisionmaking table. As an inclusive community, we have representation from recall of our Jewish Community, including the lgbtq community. The program is going to run about nine months. The idea is to give people leadership skills or participants leadership skills in order to have them ready, poised, and to join committees around the Jewish Community and in the Pacific Community and the lgbt community. E
Store policies to make them fair for neighborhood character and Small Businesses with a mixture of businesses we dont end up like a city with industrial strip malls with a lack of character i want to ask a quick question on the consideration of the Housing Element which we passed at the board 5060 percent of the housing u housing united 60 percent affordable i know as we passed prop k the goal set in the housing Balance Initiative were measure was set at 33 percent as a goal i think some view it as pa strong mandate im wondering how were inadequately meeting the Housing Element i know our regional needs arena suggestions are 60 percent Affordable Housing how are we doing in meeting those important goals. Your question is really an important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a
Important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a report on the first reporting period of that requirement i think that the other issue is related to how were achieve a higher percentage of affordable and middleIncome Housing obviously requires more the Planning Department and process it requires major funding and major resources this is what youll hear from the Mayors Office of housing but it involves a lot of enter Departmental Agency work and work with the private Investment Community a couple of the steps eave taken to entice the developers to increase the project by offering project requirement up to 20 percent but those are things were trying to do but the need is on the finance side of how to get those units other than the marketed before the board the airbnbs and rb o your
Regulated and create housing that woo and clearly were looking at ways to create financing instruments to assist in some of the expansive work were trying to do in addition to the Affordable Housing were not looking to ignore or loaf behind whats the bread and butter of the Mayors Office of housing our traditional Affordable Housing but we want to do add to this work and to address a broader range of individuals and families who also given the Housing Market are hardpressed to stay in the city in a nut shell thats what we are doing in terms of creating new programs and trying to line up projects to leverage out the funding and meet the mayors goals of the thirty thousand you know 050 percent of which is affordable a third of that you know thirty thousand doping affordable and those are the goals of the the office as we work in the Program Development and implementation over the next 5 years at this time i am sorry to Deputy Director ma clutch. Supervisors ami id like to spend a few min
Our workshop Public Housing within the next 18 months we will the Mayors Office of housing will help fund along with the Housing Authority over 35 hundred units forrehabilitation and by the end of that period we will have unit that will be having at least a useful life of another 20 years and manage and fund in are a way that the federal government did not provide for the Housing Authority and so in that effort clearly the office has made substantial process in terms of developing the financial plans and in terms of the implementations the other work with or that the office has done in terms of the policy and program prelims its been you know creating new programs to try to address the Housing Needs as some of the earlier speakers spoke about not only are we do we need to address our Housing Needs at the low level but also are there ways of expanding who we serve in terms of Affordable Housing theres an effort to try to create new programs to add on affordability to existing projects w