Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Residing in the units under management of those providers will be transferred to replacement units in the New Buildings as they are developed, just a reminder for everyone, our first building is in partnership with source to plow shares and China Town Community development and so those 36 source of plow shares units residents will move into that first building and our second building is in partnership with Catholic Charities and thats 135 unit buildings so 66 units will be occupied by Catholic Charities residents and then the remaining units well be trying to transition as many pre dda building as we planned including 23 units that we will be constructing without the benefit of Affordable Housing tax credits and other funding and where we transition households that dont meet income eligible requirements for formal housing. And so, its simple in that whoever is residing in those units will have an opportunity to move into future housing as long as they are and respective of when they arrived on the island and that promise of replacement housing is the only theres no other options that are offered to one Treasure Island resident. Its just you are promised the opportunity to relocate. Is the Catholic Charities project, is that the one that. Its in partnership with mercy, yes. Thank you. So for the village at Treasure Island residents the thr and rs, as i mentioned, extend transition benefits to those households that were here at the end of june 2011 when the dda was executed and those options that are available to the residents of villages include a new rental unit that could be an affordable unit or if they dont meet income eligibilities theyre promised the opportunity to move to a new rental unit if they so chose. If they elect to leave and also a pre marketing window and units from Treasure Islands and. And, ace mentioned, because if continue existing household does not meet the income requiremen requirements, we cannot use Affordable Housing tax credits and some other sources of funding specifically for Affordable Housing to construct those individual units. Those units remain restricted and become affordable units after the household moves out. And i really bring that up because, with the current cost of construction, the inability to use those tax credit financing and some of these underFunding Sources, means than we need to make up as much as 300,000 of the cost of constructing each unit out of other local sources. So that is a tremendous cost associated with the replacement unit benefit. So, with that recap of what the transitional housing rules and regulations promise and how theyre structured, i wanted to talk a little bit about supervisor haneys resolution urging the Treasure Island Development Authority to expand relocation and transition benefits for post dda households. This was introduced september 10th of the board of supervisors and we expect to be calender probably prior to our next meeting for discussion at land use. And so, we wanted to have a conversation with bore board mes about the provisions there. Just a reminder, as i ive discussed previously we currently have just under 400 total households and some of those households are commercial leases. Leases with special entities. That are excluded from benefits under the thr and rs. In terms of fully post dda households we have 151 and of the 191 households we refer to as pre dda but include mixed households, 91 include mixed households. Between the 100 post dda households and the mixed households, we have just about 240 total households. In consistent with the adoption of the thr and rs all leases with household members disclose that the availability on housing, on Treasure Island is interim and without relocation benefits. Being responsive to the concerns that have been raised and the amount of time thats passed since the thr and rs were adopted, i wanted to talk a little bit about how we would move forward with some benefits. One thing thats important to start with is that we dont anticipate requiring any of the existing housing to be vacated for the purchasing of development within the next five years. 2024 is when we expect to start demolishing some of the earliest we would expect start demolishing some of the existing housing to make way for development. In that timeframe, well be completing the source to plow shares and mercy buildings and begin the process of relocating residents. For any buildings vacated within the next 10 or more years, we anticipate we should be in a position to offer replacement units within the to people that have not been relocated to permanent housing but are required to vacate their current building. I have an image here you can see on the western side of the existing neighborhood about last of the residential neighborhood underlies the future Development Footprint for future housing but a significant portion of the existing neighborhood is slated to be parks and open space. And so we have some flexibility and the timing of the development of that parks and open space thats where i say, within the next 10 years, we should have opportunities within the remaining housing area to continue to provide housing for people whether they have relocation benefits or not. So, in terms of the formulating potential post dda benefits. One of the issues thats come forward is important is consultation with the City Attorney and the mayors of housing. Subsequent to the adoption of the d. D. A. But prior to the adoption of our new rules. It wouldnt be something that we would a couldnt rules and you can move in six months from now and take advantage of those rules. There will be future population and we conclude and we should do at this time. Even if we direct the village to offer new leases our lease building and units as they are vacant, theyre still the opportunity for roommates to move out and roommates to move in and those roommates moving in, to not be covered by what we do today. So, i think that is good in a couple ways. One is we dont have to solve all problems today. There will be a set of problems for someone in the future to solve as well. So, what im proposing at this time is including post dda residents in the pre market opportunities. From market rate housing so that as the first buildings on ybi become available and if people are interested in purchasing new units that post dda residents could also participate in that process during the pre marketing window. And its important to highlight as danielle included in her presentation, two of the first market rate buildings on Treasure Island will be rental union sits theres both pre marketing rental and purchase opportunities that households could take advantage of. The other thing and most important thing i propose we do is modify the housing plan to prioritize. The way the implementation of the thr and rs would be carried out to today is because we have an obligation to pre dda households, to provide replacement housing to them, when mohcd conducts their lottery process for placement in new Affordable Housing units as they become available, any new units on Treasure Island are pre dda would automatically rise to the top of that lottery process. And would have units be made available to them. And so, if we modify our housing plan to take on the obligation to provide a similar opportunity to income qualifying post dda residents they would also rise above the other categories of preference holders within the conventional Affordable Housing lottery. It would be subordinate to and just to describe what that means it would be first come first serve. If a post dda resident came in during the pre market wooing and said i want to rent unit 26, that require from post dd resident would be held until the end of the remark et wooing and a. They would still have that and it would be second to the first apartment of a pre dda household and all of the existing pre dda residents who entered into the lottery would rise to the very top of the list and the post would the list below them. Because it would not increase our financial obligations, and we wanted to bring these ideas to you for discuss and for we formally draft something and bring it forward. And i just wanted to highlight in contrast with the benefits that are available to pre dd residents were not recommending extending the inlieu payments and nor are we proposing to offer transition to post residents that dont qualify foray and to continue the existing provisions of the thr and rs and they dont apply to commercial resolvers. Going forward, we have the workshop on the 29th. We have an outreach and coordinating and well be taking what weve discussed here today and to the housing plan and another thing that the resolution request is that we develop an outreach plan to well plan for the pre marketing update. This is information only. Theres no action that is calender for today its just to bring the board uptodate so i open it up to questions. Thank you, again. At least we can say that the way that we are implementing the thr and rs we are following pro tolls and good intentions are great and the problem sometimes are the implementations and thats incumbent on what im going to discussion what we do in addition to the fine documents we serve a supporting document. I think that even all the position out there, if you have been raiding the president and the media, not everyone can tune into our deliberations to see the quality and the extent to which were doing this, when they grandfathered them to the document that is why we committed all these resources and were doing what were doing. Matt haney says we need to do the post dda. Years back when i was part of this process too, london breed came out with housing and if you live in the western edition, anything billion dollar there and people are not just examining to your neighborhood and that is the city. Im also aware that San Francisco mohcd had all these references that when people were from the western edition back in their date they are whether or notes and seniors from preferences so why am i saying the world we need, a simple table. All the of the information is here and we can help you figure this thing out. We identify what we mean by pre dda and adjust all this stuff that youve identified here, they are listed on the post dda you mentioned those dda are advisory and i they we need to qualify for the public so that everybody is on the same page, what does advisory rules are and where the obligations are. They need to be stated. We coming up next putting the numbers and this is essential and this is essential because even for the board of supervisors i know, i will not vote anything until we have that and because, these people here reading all the the documents and theyre technical and out there when you live in front of city hall we will be bomb card and why are you evicting people at Treasure Island and why are you providing this and you are not doing that and how many have you read that and if we take the time based on the information we have to pel out what is it were doing here on this column, one or two pages, they have have a copy and everything and its a document and it will make my job easier and it will make everybodys jobs easier here because the way that people are interpreting this is basically they dont have that and i dont blame them and no Background Information just a sound advice and we can as an agency continue to do that so this is what im going to ask that the information is all the supported documents with you need to have this table of content where we can translate it to the Treasure Island so its a way of this resolution they are aware of the advisory roles because we all have this staff and again to be com barredded and they will understand and also i need for you to secretary board of supervisors, the city and county of San Francisco again has all this obligations and what does that mean even though the residents are going to be here with no demolition in five years. What about the Affordable Housing that San Francisco is building there and if im on Treasure Island, what that implies that i should wait to five years now to put my name on the list when they are building in mission bay and around the places this is a question that we all need to be up front with so that opposed dda, no, they have many options and they are San Francisco residents and that they are certain laws in place because they are out bound by the pre dda so this can help us and we can do the resolution but i think a lot of education also needs to be ironed out here by the board of supervisors and also when we get to a next meeting on the island, people are going to be coming out there to be up front what it is were doing and where the obligations are so that its very clear to everyone. Thank you. So just a couple questions. Prioritizing the post qualifying dda residents for the placement in affordable units does that put them ahead of the Mayors Office of housing list where there might be people that have been waiting for Affordable Housing longer than they have been waiting but its just because the benefit that theyre on the island and theyre going to get ahead of those folks . So the city lottery list is that and there are a number of preferences that exist within that and slightly responsive to one of the questions about you know other opportunities off of the island that might be available to post dda residents and one of the things that we can do is make sure that anybody who is a resident what would income qualify get their name into the system because there is other Development One of the steps in the mohcd process is a neighborhood reference which is based on supervisor redistrict and we know theres a lot of development in district 6. So, it is possible that if we work with residents and get them registered they may be place offtherecord of the island but, in response to your question, this would set up a preference because we need to vacate this housing and we will need to demolish is, it would set up a priority that if someone was an income qualifying post dda resident they would transition on the island so that we could empty existing units and move forward with the demolition process. It would just, my only concern would be if i was off the island and just waiting for something and i was on that list longer than someone who was post dda and part of their lease was that i shouldnt expect to have that opportunity i mean, i think its great and i would just be concerned are we being fair to everybody. That is waiting for an affordable unit. Understood. I have one more question. So, if the resolution passes the board and comes to tight end, is this proposal then. Supervisor haneys resolution is non binding so to define some transition benefits and so it is whatever we develop hopefully, we are developing recommendations that would address the supervisors concern and fulfill the intent of the board of supervisors resolution. So, i mean, i guess a little bit. I feel like almost, and i know were not voting on this today. But you know are we a little bit putting the card ahead of the horse should we wait until this supervisor mainlys recommendations through a resolution comes to us and say does this address it is it in the spirit of it and then we can move forward. Supervisor haney couldnt be here today but we have to continue dialogue with his office. As i mentioned, its expected that the resolution will be referred to the Land Use Committee so there will be an opportunity for discussion at the Committee Level about what were proposing as potential solutions to address the resolution and receive feedback at least from those three Board Members in addition to supervisor haney. Last question is i guess at this early stage, we wouldnt have any idea how this might effect budget or cost or anything like that . It would depend on the proposals that we have put forward shouldnt effect we will need to develop an outreach plan as weve done with post tda residents with some costs associated with that. But this isnt materially alter the cost of construction of the replacement units and if we were to offer a transition unit to all post tda residents regardless of income qualifications, that would have very significant cost implications and that something that would not only require tida board approval and board of supervisors approval. Thank you. Make just pigging backing off of your last statement i want it to be clear for everyone here. I heard you say that because the proposal is to allow for post residents who were income qualifying mean they would have normally qualified for a bmr unit anyways to also have priority in the lottery system, this would result in no net new cost impact for the city. Yes. For the development. So thats the clarification i want which is some of the Affordable Housing developers target a specific a. M. I. Level or demographic max and perhaps theyre going after funding that is earmarked for certain demographic types. With this new lottery preference, which perhaps opens up the demographic type create complications for the funding for the developer . Each lottery is conducted according to the income eligibility requirements for that building at the time it becomes available for occupancy. So if that building is utilizing Funding Source thats restrict income eligibility to 40 to 06 of a. M. I. , those only only those households that meet that window would be eligible for participation. If it allowed income up to 80 , then people of higher slightly higher incomes would. Anybody who is put into a lottery for placement in a unit would need to be in line with the income requirements with that unit. So

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