Are for the city . And so we have a recent addition to the website that talks about where would you go if you were homeless . Where would you go if you needed help in getting repairs to your home . So were going to try to be a facilitator, and sort of a conductor of guiding people to various other resources. But we are going to also really look at our Affordable Housing stock and how people can apply to that in making sure that that process is as easy as possible. Great. As someone who has spent a lot of time focusing on how our citys it can be better used to get data out to folks, i certainly support the efforts that you are doing and are there challenges that you are facing in being able to implement this . I know its been a long standing issue and challenge that many departments have had, but in particular, like now, given the affordability crisis, are there things that we can help with . Are there Budget Constraints . What do we need to do to make this system as seamless and as acc
You doing to help resident who english may not be their first language for access to your site . We are in the process of making sure that all the shortform applications feel free, if you like were looking at translating the short form application and marketing materials, the core marketing materials in multiple languages, so it makes the process for potential applicants easier. The other thing that we do is that we fund housing counseling groups, who are language proficient and we rely in part op those groups to help with interpreting and describing some of the housing opportunities and guiding people, who may need some assistance in interpreting forms. So that they can complete those forms. Great. And do you have a time frame for when all of this work will be done . Were hoping much of the website work were hoping to get done by the end of this calendar year. Is that right . And then a lot of base work that feeds into the website, like the short form is also been the end of the calen
Question about the hole in the middle . Yes. Do you know the extent of the ami starting with 80 ami, what it possibly could go to . Terms of what were missing with our middleclass in San Francisco . Because i have heard talk of 80120 ami, but it seems like we would even need to go further than that. Well, were looking at 80150 . Clearly even folks at 150 of Median Income are struggling, especially on the ownership side. So i think were going to be looking at that. Whether well be able to address it or not is another question, but clearly looking at people that cant participate in the market today and even people at 150 of Median Income cannot afford to buy the medianpriced home today. Also, can i add, because one of the other challenges that we have a lot of city workers who cant afford to live in the city. I know there have been programs for firstresponders and for down payment assistance and so im hoping in taking a look at what were trying to do in order to preserve diversity, we lo
And we may come back to the budget process in order to make further improvements on the system. Our goal is to be the best, the best in everything. So if our portal is not the best, we want to be the best. So we will continue to try to make improvements and were very, very open to whatever criticisms people may have about trying to work their way through our process. I know its a very cumbersome process and there are a lot of requirements in terms of eligibility and some of those are programmatic requirements related to funding, but well endeavor to make that process as easy as possible. Great, im happy if there are ways for my office to work with you on that. I want to understand what are you doing to help resident who english may not be their first language for access to your site . We are in the process of making sure that all the shortform applications feel free, if you like were looking at translating the short form application and marketing materials, the core marketing materials
Feel free, if you like were looking at translating the short form application and marketing materials, the core marketing materials in multiple languages, so it makes the process for potential applicants easier. The other thing that we do is that we fund housing counseling groups, who are language proficient and we rely in part op those groups to help with interpreting and describing some of the housing opportunities and guiding people, who may need some assistance in interpreting forms. So that they can complete those forms. Great. And do you have a time frame for when all of this work will be done . Were hoping much of the website work were hoping to get done by the end of this calendar year. Is that right . And then a lot of base work that feeds into the website, like the short form is also been the end of the calendar year. I thank you. I wanted to mention as i mentioned to supervisor breed i have an event in my district at 12 00 and i will jet over there and get back as quick as i