Written in the scenarios. Do you want to comment . [ inaudible ] with the department of Emergency Management. Well, you have my word, i will consult with my executive director as soon as she returns from d. C. Supervisor cohen well, to be fair, you gave me your word that you were going to work with supervisor yee, and you didnt do that. We have met with him several times, and we have a differing dialogue, to be fair, but i will work with the director, cronenberg, and im sure its a conversation she will have with the other Community Members and sheriff ahern, absolutely. Supervisor cohen at this time, id like to ask the assistant sheriff of Alameda County to come up. I just wanted to give you an opportunity to give some feedback on some of the remarks you heard here today, going a little further than the two minutes that you had in Public Comment, and i assume out of the representatives, i am the most senior. Yes, maam, i am. Do you mind if i grab my notes. Supervisor cohen grab your no
Rehab of Public Housing is of outmost important. I thought it would be a deduction had we lost it rather than the maintenance. I agree it would have been lost in the count if we didnt spend the money to keep them affordable. Mrs. Hartley, i have a one question for the Mayors Office of housing. Do we take into and i want to state i redshirt members of the pub will lick speaking to how we dont just want this annual record to happen. We want the Planning Commission and housing to take into account the accumulative balance. Otherwise it doesnt hold it accountable to the numbers. When we look at the geographic data and where we had the largest loss of units and production, do we have an acquisition plan that looks like at the geography in district 4 where we have a high level of wasp and low production. Can we look to prioritize sites in those discretions to ensure Affordable Housing production. We would love to build more houses. In d4 we have a teachers site a combination of low and middl
Difficult, in my mind, to protect those tenants who are knowingly living in when they moved in, knowingly living in an illegal substandard space. But to me, theres a big difference between the two, someone whos getting displaced, but i assume when you move into an illegal unit, you know what youre getting into. [ inaudible ] Vice President richards sir, please. Ill step in and make a comment. I think i already said i agree with that, as well. Buyer beware. Vice president richards right. Thats what i was going to say. Commissioner melgar. Commissioner melgar i was just going to, you know, just agree. I think that, you know, people dont move into an illegal unit sort of oh, buyer beware. I think theyre theyre paying rent, you know, for a unit that is substandard and illegal, then, the burden of proof is not on the renter, its on the property owner. So i you know, i think your brother bought this building knowing that there was, you know, a family with children and peeling paint in that b
The tax credits and Tax Exemptions given to lowincome are allocated allow a private developer it gives them more of an incentive or ability to create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. Were trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said.
I thought it would be a deduction had we lost it rather than the maintenance. I agree it would have been lost in the count if we didnt spend the money to keep them affordable. Mrs. Hartley, i have a one question for the Mayors Office of housing. Do we take into and i want to state i redshirt members of the pub will lick speaking to how we dont just want this annual record to happen. We want the Planning Commission and housing to take into account the accumulative balance. Otherwise it doesnt hold it accountable to the numbers. When we look at the geographic data and where we had the largest loss of units and production, do we have an acquisition plan that looks like at the geography in district 4 where we have a high level of wasp and low production. Can we look to prioritize sites in those discretions to ensure Affordable Housing production. We would love to build more houses. In d4 we have a teachers site a combination of low and middle Income Housing. We are looking forward to form