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GOOD MORNING, GREG, I'M GOING TO JOIN YOU KIND OF OFF AND ON THIS MORNING.
HOPEFULLY YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME EVER UNDER THE WEATHER, BUT UP HERE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND YOU'RE SICK.
MY KIDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNLEASHED FOR LIKE BIG CHUNKS OF TIME.
I THINK I'M GOING TO GET US STARTED STUFF.
ARE WE READY TO GO? WE'RE READY WHEN YOU ARE,
[Call to Order]
RIGHT.IT IS A TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:05 AM.
WE'RE MEETING VIRTUALLY, UH, I'M GREG CASAR, CHAIR OF THE HOUSING AND PLANNING COMMITTEE.
WE ARE, UM, WE'RE JOINED BY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, KITCHEN AND HARPER MADISON GIVING US A QUORUM.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR IS HERE.
UH, THE FIRST, UM, THING WE WOULD USUALLY DO IS APPROVE THE MINUTES, BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING AREN'T AREN'T READY YET.
UM, AND SO WE WILL SKIP RIGHT OVER INTO THE ITEMS.
[3. Briefing on the City’s residential affordable housing development bonus program commonly referred to as “Affordability Unlocked”.]
WE HAVE GUESTS HERE FOR THE AFFORDABILITY ON LOCKED ITEMS. SO WE'LL TAKE THAT FIRST AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK INTO ORDER, UH, TAKING UP THE, UM, EMERGENCY HOUSING, LOCAL DISASTER, UH, ITEM SECONDS, AND THEN THE, UH, THE MAPPING TOOL SHOWING OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.SO, UH, STAFF LET'S, LET'S GET STARTED WITH THE, UH, AFFORDABILITY OF MOCK PRESENTATION AND SHE'LL BE GREAT.
AND AS SHE COMES ON, SORRY, I, I, MY SCREEN FAILED TO SCROLL FOR ME.
I MISSED, WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE VICE-CHAIR ELLIS HERE.
UH, AND THEN I ALSO SEE COUNCIL MEMBER RENTERIA AND THE MAYOR ARE LOGGED IN AND LISTENING.
SO BACK TO YOU GUYS, GREAT COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, HOPEFULLY YOU RECEIVED, UM, SOME SLIDES THAT I SENT IN.
UM, THOSE ARE, THAT'S GOING TO BE MY SORT OF PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS THAT'D BE GOING OFF OF TODAY.
UM, SO LIKE I SAID, MY NAME IS ALEX FOR PLANNER WITH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
THANKS FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU GUYS AN UPDATE ON THE UNLOCKED PROGRAM.
JUST TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROGRAM IN GENERAL, WHAT THAT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE TO GO THROUGH AND THEN OUR CURRENT PROJECT PIPELINE.
IT'S ALSO MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SPEAKERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAM WHO WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THAT EXPERIENCE.
SO I'M SURE MOST OF YOU'RE PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED, BUT JUST AS A REMINDER, THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT BONUS PROGRAM THAT OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL WAIVERS OF DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR HIGH PERCENTAGES OF AFFORDABLE UNITS.
IT WAS MEANT TO ENABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS TO BUILD MORE UNITS IN THEIR DEVELOPMENTS AND OTHERWISE ENTITLED TO INTO BETTER LEVERAGE PUBLIC FUNDS IN PARTICULAR, IN LIGHT OF THE 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND DOLLARS.
IN ADDITION, IT WAS MEANT TO BE EASILY PAIRED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER AFFORDABLE HOUSING TOOLS, WHETHER THAT BE GET FINANCING OR OTHER DENSITY BONUS PROGRAMS. JUST AS A REMINDER, IF WE'RE BUILDING UNLOCKED ORDINANCE WAS PASSED ON MAY 9TH LAST YEAR, YOU NEED A MISLEAD BY CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, WE HAD OUR AFFORDABILITY APPLICATION PORTAL IN SUPPORTING PROGRAM DOCUMENTS UP ONLINE FOR THE PUBLIC.
UH, I WANT TO TAKE ONE MOMENT TO, UM, JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED AGREEMENT TEMPLATE.
THIS IS A SORT OF NEW TYPE OF DOCUMENT THAT WE, THAT THEN WHAT WE'VE DONE BEFORE FOR SOME OF OUR OTHER DENSITY BONUS PROGRAMS, WE WORKED A LOT
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WITH LEGAL COUNSEL TO CRAFT A DOCUMENT THAT CREATES SOME STRONG PROTECTIONS FOR THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THIS PROGRAM.AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, UM, IS A DOCUMENT THAT IS RECORDED ON THE PROPERTY ITSELF, SO THAT IN THE EVENT OF CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP, THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS ARE STILL SECURE.
HERE WE HAVE AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.
UM, I HAVE THIS ON HERE, JUST SO WHEN WE LATER TALK ABOUT TYPE ONE AND TYPE TWO PROJECTS, YOU GUYS KIND OF HAVE A FEELING FOR WHAT THAT MEANS.
UM, SO AN APPLICANT GETS TO CHOOSE WHETHER THEY WANT TO BE TYPE ONE OR TYPE TWO FOR TYPE ONE PROJECT.
THE REQUIREMENTS ARE GOING TO DIFFER A LITTLE BIT DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT, AND THEN WHETHER IT'S A RENTAL OR OWNERSHIP PROJECT.
UM, JUST AS A QUICK SUMMARY, IF IT'S ONE TO TWO UNIT PROJECT THAN A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE UNITS WOULD NEED TO BE AFFORDABLE THREE OR MORE UNITS THAN 50% OF THE UNITS MUST BE AFFORDABLE FOR A RENTAL PROJECT.
THE AVERAGE AFFORDABLE UNIT MUST SERVE HOUSEHOLDS AT 60% MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME OR BELOW FOR 40 YEARS.
AND THEN 20% OF ALL UNITS MUST SERVE HOUSEHOLDS AT 50% OF MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME OR BELOW IF IT'S OWNERSHIP PROJECT, THEN THE AFFORDABLE UNITS SHOULD SERVE ON AVERAGE 80% MEDIAN, FAMILY INCOME OR BELOW, OR PERIOD OF 99 YEARS.
IN ADDITION TO THOSE REQUIREMENTS, THE PROJECT MUST HAVE 25% OF ITS UNIT AFFORDABLE UNITS, UM, FALLING ONE OF THE THREE OPTIONS, THESE OPTIONS, TWO OR MORE BEDROOMS SERVICE IN YOUR HOUSING OR SERVICE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
AND THEN IF IT IS A RENTAL PROJECT, THE APPLICANT MUST AGREE TO INCLUDE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TENANT PROTECTIONS SUCH AS JUST CAUSE EVICTION TENANT, RACHEL ORGANIZED SOURCE OF INCOME PROTECTION.
UM, AND THE WAY WE DO THIS AS WE ACTUALLY INCLUDE, WE USE OUR RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, LEASE A DENIM, UH, WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF THESE ITEMS, UM, AND INCLUDED IN AGREEMENT AS AN EXHIBIT WHEN YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TYPE TWO TYPE TWO, SIMPLY BUILDS ON AND, AND, UM, REQUIRES GREATER COMMITMENT THAN TYPE ONE.
SO A TATTOO PROJECT, EXPLAIN TO ME ALL OF THOSE TYPE ONE REQUIREMENTS.
AND THEN IN ADDITION IS GOING TO MEET AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR OPTIONS.
SO THAT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST 75% OF ALL THE UNITS ARE HORRIBLE.
AT LEAST 10% OF THE AFFORDABLE UNITS ARE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE.
AT 30% YOU GAIN FAMILY INCOME OR BELOW AT LEAST 50% OF THE AFFORDABLE UNITS HAVE TWO OR MORE BEDROOMS, OR THE PROJECT IS WITHIN A QUARTER MILE OF IMAGINE AUSTIN CORRIDOR WITH TRANSIT.
NOW I DON'T HAVE A SIDE TODAY ON THE, UM, BONUSES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT, UM, MODIFICATIONS THAT THEY, AN APPLICANT RECEIVES IN EXCHANGE FOR THESE AFFORDABILITY, UM, DEDICATIONS.
BUT I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT JUST BECAUSE I, I JUST TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEAR ABOUT WHY YOU WOULD DO TYPE ONE OR TYPE TWO, THAT THE DIFFERENCES DEVELOP IN THE BONUS THAT YOU WOULD RECEIVE, UM, IS IN TWO DIFFERENT AREAS.
THE FIRST ONE BEING HEIGHT, IF YOU'RE A TYPE ONE PROJECT, THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO INCREASE YOUR HEIGHT BY A FACTOR OF 1.25 ABOVE YOUR BASE ZONING DISTRICT HEIGHT LIMIT.
AND IF YOU'RE A TYPE TWO PROJECT, THAT FACTOR IS GOING TO BE 1.5.
THE OTHER DIFFERENCE IF YOU'RE A TYPE ONE OR TYPE TWO, AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL BONUS IS GOING TO BE, IF YOUR BASE DISTRICT LIMITS THE NUMBER OF DRAWLING UNITS.
UM, AND THIS IS TYPICALLY TYPICALLY GOING TO BE SOMETHING WE SEE WITH A SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT, THEN AS A TYPE ONE PROJECT, THAT LIMIT IS MODIFIED UP TO SIX UNITS PER SITE, AS A TYPE TWO UP TO EIGHT UNITS.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE OVERALL VERY QUICK TYPE ONE TYPE TWO.
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT, WHAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT.
SLIDE FOUR, PLEASE GIVE ME THE QUICK RUN THROUGH ON IT LOOKS LIKE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS FOR GETTING CERTIFIED AND DEVELOPING AND IT SORT OF PROJECT HER SHE'LL SUBMIT AN APPLICATION VIA THE ONLINE PORTAL.
WE REQUIRE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, UH, DOCUMENTS AS BACKUP, INCLUDING A PROOF OF SITE CONTROL DOCUMENT.
SO AN APPLICANT DOES NEED TO SHOW THAT THEY EITHER OWN THE PROPERTY OR HAVE AN OPTION ON THE PROPERTY, UH, IN ORDER TO APPLY IF THE PROJECT MEETS REQUIREMENTS.
AT THAT POINT, WE'RE GOING TO USE THAT AGREEMENT TEMPLATE, UM, DRAFT UP THAT CREATE A DRAFT, UH, OUTLINING EXACTLY HOW THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO MEET THE PORTABILITY OF MATCH REQUIREMENTS THAT WILL THEN BE EXECUTED BY THE APPLICANT IN NACD.
AND A CERTIFICATION LETTER IS ISSUED.
THIS LETTER IS GOING TO ACCOMPANY ALL DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS MOVING FORWARD SO THAT REVIEWERS CAN APPLY THE APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT BONUSES.
WE'VE WORKED REALLY CLOSELY WITH DSD ON THIS PROCESS.
UM, IT IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR WITH THE LETTER FORMAT TO OUR SMART HOUSING, UH, PROCESS.
UH, AND SO, UH, WE'VE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT COMPLETELY NEW.
UH, WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY ISSUES SO FAR WITH THIS.
UM, IT GOES THROUGH THAT REGULAR DEVELOPMENT
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PROCESS AT THE POINT THAT THE BUILDING PERMIT IS ISSUED AND HDD PLACES, AN ADMINISTRATIVE HOLD ON THAT PERMIT SO THAT THE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY CAN NOT BE RELEASED IN ORDER TO LIFT THAT HOLD.WE DO REQUIRE AN ARCHITECT OR ENGINEER STAMPED LETTER, ESSENTIALLY CERTIFYING THAT THE PROJECT WAS BUILT AS OUTLINED IN THE AGREEMENT NUMBER OF UNITS, A NUMBER OF DEDICATED, AFFORDABLE UNITS AND SO FORTH.
AND THEN THAT AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED AGREEMENT IS THAT RECORDED.
AT THAT POINT IN TIME, WE WOULD THEN RELEASE THE ADMINISTRATIVE HOLD.
THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY CAN BE ISSUED.
AND AT THAT POINT, THE PROJECT'S GOING TO ENTER THAT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING STAGE SLIDE FIVE, PLEASE.
SO HERE WE HAVE A LOOK AT OUR PROJECT PIPELINE.
UM, I'M ACTUALLY GONNA START SERVING ON THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE SLIDE SINCE, UH, SEPTEMBER 3RD, WE HAVE RECEIVED 46 APPLICATIONS, 26 OF WHICH HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED BY THAT HAVE BEEN CANCELED, OR WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A RESPONSE AFTER THE INITIAL APPLICATION OF THE CERTIFIED PROJECTS, 10 WERE CERTIFIED AS TYPE ONE, 16 WERE CERTIFIED AS TYPE TWO, AS FAR AS TENURE BREAKDOWN, A 31% OF CERTIFIED PROJECTS HAVE BEEN AN OWNERSHIP PRODUCT AND 69% HAVE BEEN A RENTAL PRODUCT OVERALL.
UM, WE'VE CERTIFIED 2,721 UNITS OF WHICH 2,337 ARE AFFORDABLE.
WE OF COURSE ARE TRACKING PROJECTS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
AS WE DO WITH ALL OF OUR PROJECTS THAT ARE IN DENSE, OUR CERTIFIED UNDER DENSITY BONUS PROGRAMS. UM, AS OF OUR LAST REPORT UPDATE, WE HAD THREE PROJECTS THAT HAD RECEIVED A BUILDING PERMIT OR HAD A BUILDING PERMIT UNDER IS INCLUDE 4,500 LAMPPOSTS LANE, A CIVIL TUDE PROJECT, 1,103 CLAREMONT AVENUE, GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PROJECT 300 EAST CROSSWIND STREET THAT JESSE REAL ESTATE PROJECT.
AND THEN WE HAVE THREE PROJECTS THAT HAVE A SITE PLAN UNDER REVIEW, THE MATADOR AND THE HENDERSON, BOTH WITH LDG DEVELOPMENT AND A GAVI EAST APARTMENTS WITH HERMAN AND KIDDLE PROPERTIES.
SO HERE WE HAVE A BREAKDOWN ON, OF, OF SORT OF THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION THAT WE'VE SEEN FOR CERTIFIED PROJECTS SO FAR.
UM, AS YOU'LL NOTE DISTRICT THREE SO FAR HAS THE MOST CERTIFIED PROJECTS WITH SIX, BUT CLOSELY BEHIND THAT DISTRICT ONE AND FOUR EACH HAVE FIVE CERTIFIED PROJECTS.
SO FAR WE HAVE NOT CERTIFIED ANY PROJECTS IN DISTRICT SIX OR AN EIGHT.
I'VE ALSO PULLED OUT OVER TO THE SIDE, JUST A COUPLE OF INTERESTING, UH, STATISTICS THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY, INCLUDING THAT 70% OF CERTIFIED PROJECT APPLICATIONS INDICATED PARTICIPATION IN THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM OR THE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OR OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR FUNDING.
UM, AND THIS, I THINK JUST SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT AGAIN, THIS PROGRAM REALLY WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER AFFORDABLE HOUSING TOOLS.
UM, THIS IS FURTHER SOLIDIFIED BY THE FACT THAT 65% OF CERTIFIED PROJECTS HAVE ALSO CHOSEN TO BE SMART CERTIFIED, WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO ACCESS A NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENT FEE WAIVERS.
AND THEN FINALLY, I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE AIDAN LAMPPOSTS BECAME THE FIRST CERTIFIED PROJECT TO BREAK GROUND ON JULY 22ND.
JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, SIDE SEVEN, PLEASE.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.
I KNOW, BUT ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, ALEX.
UM, I'M GOING TO SAVE QUESTIONS FOR, FOR YOU AND THE STAFF, UH, PROBABLY FOR AFTER WE ALSO GET PRESENTATIONS FROM SOME OTHER FOLKS, UH, THAT ARE BUILDING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, IF THAT'S OKAY WITH, UM, EVERYBODY HERE ON THE DICE, UM, STAFF ARE, DO WE HAVE EVERYBODY IN, UH, OUR GUESTS HERE IN QUEUE TO GIVE US THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES? IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE COMING ON.
SO, SO I'M GUESSING THE ANSWER IS YES.
UM, SO WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE, UM, WE WILL TAKE UP, UH, SOME TESTIMONY FROM PROJECT TRANSITIONS, UH, FROM, UH, QUITE A LOOPY NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
AND I THINK WE WILL ALSO LIKELY GET A FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES.
AND, UM, AND SO THOSE WHO TO ON, UH, BEFORE Y'ALL GET STARTED THOUGH, YOU KNOW, WE JUST GOT A LOT OF REALLY GOOD AND DENSE INFORMATION FROM THE, UH, FROM OUR CITY STAFF AND OUR TEAM, ALEX, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS TOGETHER, BUT BASICALLY IN LESS THAN A YEAR, THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE YEAR CHECK-IN FOR AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED, BUT TECHNICALLY IT ONLY KICKED OFF IN NOVEMBER.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, SOMEWHERE AROUND 2,500
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HOMES COMING THROUGH THE PROD THROUGH THE PROGRAM, 2000 OF WHICH ARE LOW COST.AND THAT MIGHT BE APARTMENTS THAT ARE REALLY, REALLY LOW IN RENT, YOU KNOW, $500, $700, $800 RENT INCLUDES HOME HOMEOWNERSHIP, UH, PROJECTS THAT YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU COULD GET NEW HOMES GETTING BUILT AT LESS THAN $200,000.
UH, AND, AND AT SCALE OF OVER 2000 HOMES, APPLYING THROUGH THIS IN LESS THAN A YEAR IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
UH, BUT JUST SEEING THAT ON A SPREADSHEET MEANS ONE THING ACTUALLY HEARING FROM, UM, FROM THE NONPROFITS AND THE BUILDERS ON THE GROUND DOING THIS WORK IS, IS ANOTHER.
AND SO I'M REALLY GLAD THAT WE HAVE, Y'ALL HERE TO COME TELL US ABOUT YOUR, ABOUT YOUR WORK, SO THAT WE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THE PROGRAM IS WORKING ON THE INDIVIDUAL SCALE.
AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN ASK OUR GUESTS QUESTION QUESTIONS OR THE STOCK QUESTIONS.
SO, UH, MS SAID, WHY DON'T YOU GET US STARTED AND TELL US, REMIND US ALL ABOUT THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU'VE BEEN USING IT FOR ABSOLUTELY.
AND THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY.
I COULD HAVE DIRECTOR PROJECT CONDITION AND I'M HERE TODAY JUST TO SHARE HOW AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED IS MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE PROJECT TRANSITIONS TO MORE THAN TRIPLE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK AVAILABLE TO AND RESERVED FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV AIDS RIGHT HERE IN AUSTIN.
SO ROOSEVELT PROJECT TRANSITIONS HAS OWNED FOR, UM, OVER 25 YEARS.
SINCE THE NINETIES, WE ARE NEARLY DOUBLING OUR CAPACITY THERE FROM 22 TO 40 DEEPLY SUPPORTIVE APARTMENT HOMES.
ALL 40 UNITS WILL BE AFFORDABLE WITH 21 UNITS AT 30% MFI 19 UNITS AT 50% MFI PLUS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 5,468 SQUARE FEET OF COMMUNITY SPACE AND PUTTING A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN AND A DINING HALL WITH A LARGE FOOD PANTRY, COMMUNITY ROOMS AND CLASSROOM.
UM, AND THE COMMUNITY WILL BE CENTERED AROUND A GREEN OPEN AIRPORT YARD FOR THE RESIDENTS TO ENJOY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS REALLY INCREDIBLE.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT AFFORDABILITY ON LOCKED.
IN FACT, OUR TEAM DETERMINED EARLY ON THAT WITHOUT IT, WE REALLY WOULDN'T HAVE THEM PERMITTED TO BUILD EVEN THE 22 UNITS THAT ALREADY EXIST.
THEY'RE AT ROOSEVELT GARDEN AND AS WE SPEAK, THOSE OF GARDENS IS UNDERWAY.
SO EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE PAUSE TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT THAT COVID MIGHT HAVE ON THE DEVELOPMENT PLANS, BUT WITH THE COORDINATED EFFORT OF OUR TEAM, WE ARE PUSHING THROUGH BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW VITAL THIS HOUSING IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BOTH FOR INDIVIDUAL QUALITY OF LIFE AND HEALTH AND FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH AT LARGE, AND THIS EXPANSION AGAIN, LITERALLY OUT OF IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT REAL AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED.
WE HAVE IS GOING TO BE RIGHT ON FURNACE ZERO ZERO SEVEN BURNET ROAD, UM, IS SLATED TO BREAK GROUND IN SPRING OF 2021.
AND IT WILL CREATE 61 BRAND NEW DEEPLY SUPPORTIVE AND ALL AFFORDABLE APARTMENT HOMES IN NORTHWEST AUSTIN, RIGHT THERE ON BURNETT ROAD.
UM, THIS IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAS SOMEWHERE NEAR 11,000 SQUARE FEET OF COMMUNITY SPACE WITH IT WILL BE A REAL HUB FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING WHERE RESIDENTS CAN RECEIVE, UM, TELEHEALTH SERVICES RIGHT ON SITE, AND ALSO BE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT WE'LL HAVE THERE.
SO AGAIN, ANOTHER DESPERATELY NEEDED INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT PORTABILITY.
AND, UM, THE CITY HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE WITH Y'ALL LEADERSHIP, STEPPING UP AND SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS.
UM, FUNDING STILL SEEMS TO BE THE PRIMARY BARRIER TO MAXIMIZING POTENTIAL OF AFFORDABILITY ON LOT.
I'LL SAY THAT, UH, WE ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO BUILD 84 UNITS AT THAT SITE.
UH, WE'VE HAD TO SCALE THAT BACK TO THE 61 UNITS STILL SO INCREDIBLE TO BE ABLE TO OFFER THESE 61 UNITS SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS SPECIAL POPULATION.
WE KNOW THAT THOUSANDS OF FOLKS RIGHT HERE IN AUSTIN ARE LIVING WITH HIV AND STRUGGLING WITH HOMELESSNESS OR HOUSING INSTABILITY.
WE FEAR COVID IS ONLY GOING TO INCREASE THOSE NUMBERS.
SO WE CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY FOR THESE PROJECTS.
NOW WE KNOW THAT HOUSING IS HEALTHCARE BECAUSE WE SEE IT EVERY DAY.
AND WITH THESE EXPANSIONS MADE POSSIBLE BY AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED, WE KNOW THAT WE WILL TRANSFORM THOUSANDS OF LIVES AND BRING OUR COMMUNITY THAT MUCH CLOSER TO AN AIDS FREE AUSTIN.
SO FOR THAT IN EVERYTHING Y'ALL HAVE DONE TO SUPPORT BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN, WE THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR THAT, MR. TO THAT.
AND ARE YOU ABLE TO STICK AROUND IN CASE FOLKS HAVE QUESTIONS? OKAY, GREAT.
WELL, WE'LL GET PRESENTATIONS FROM THE OTHER THREE GROUPS REALLY QUICK AND GET AND GET BACK TO YOU, BUT THANKS FOR THAT WORK.
AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE AT ROOSEVELT GARDENS, THAT'S AN OVER 80% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF UNITS YOU HAVE THERE WITH US, WHICH IS, WHICH IS GREAT.
UH, NEXT WE'LL TAKE A WILD LOOP NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT
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CORPORATION.HI, THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON RACHEL STONE, A ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH GLOBE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE BRIEFLY ABOUT OUR PROJECT AT, UH, EIGHT OH NINE EAST NINTH STREET.
THAT'S THE, UH, THE LOPEZ TOWER AS WE'VE BEEN CALLING IT, IT'LL BE CALLED BUBBA, SAID A LOPEZ.
UM, GMDC OWNED THE LAND, OWNS THE LAND AT THAT SITE.
IT'S CURRENTLY A HISTORIC HOUSE THAT WE HAD BEEN INTERESTED IN PRESERVING, AND WE INITIALLY WERE GOING TO BUILD, UM, AS MUCH AS WE COULD ON THAT SITE, A SIX STORY, 24 UNITS, 70 FOOT BUILDING.
WE WANTED IT TO BE SENIOR HOUSING.
UH, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF SENIOR HOUSING RIGHT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, AND WE, WE DO WANT TO DEDICATE SOME SPACE.
WE HAVEN'T BUILT SENIOR HOUSING BEFORE.
UM, AND THIS WOULD BE OUR THIRD MULTIFAMILY PROPERTY.
UM, AND WE WERE HAVING SOME DIFFICULTIES WITH PARKING.
WE KNEW A LOT OF OUR SENIORS WERE NOT GOING TO HAVE CARS, BUT UNDER THE, UH, ZONING OR UNDER THE NACD.
UH, THE, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE ACRONYM IS, BUT YEAH, UM, CONGREGATE LIVING WAS NOT, UH, USE.
AND SO WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO SEEK A VARIANCE FOR PARKING.
UH, WE HAD SOME OTHER SITE COMPLICATIONS AND ALSO THE PROJECT AT SIX STORIES WAS VERY COSTLY, UH, PER SQUARE FOOT BECAUSE OF THE NEEDING TO BUILD A TOWER THAT WAS ONLY GOING TO HAVE FOUR UNITS PER FLOOR.
UM, AND WITH AFFORDABILITY ON LOCKED, WE WERE ABLE TO GO UP TO NINE STORIES, UH, THAT MADE IT SO THAT WE COULD HAVE 34 UNITS.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE BY 10 UNITS, UM, THAT ALSO ALLOWED US TO ADD, UM, SIX UNITS THAT WOULD BE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE, WHICH HELPED US THEN APPLY FOR HUD TO, UH, TO FUNDING, UH, BECAUSE, UH, TO, TO FUNDING IS ONLY FOUR UNITS THAT ARE AT 50% AND BELOW.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF UNITS SO MUCH, UH, THAT WOULD BE 50% AND BELOW BY ADDING THOSE 10 UNITS THAT WE, UM, APPLIED FOR 26 DEEPLY AFFORDABLE UNITS FOR PRAC, UH, TO, UH, TO FUNDING, UM, WHICH WE WERE AWARDED.
SO THAT'S $4 MILLION THAT WILL GO TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PROJECT THAT WE WILL BASICALLY FILLED A LARGE GAP BECAUSE OF HOW COMPLICATED THE PROJECT IT IS.
UM, AND AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED HELPED US TAKE CARE OF OUR PARKING ISSUE.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF SPOTS WE THINK WILL ACTUALLY BE USED IN THE BUILDING.
UH, WE'VE SEEN SOME SENIOR HOUSING PROJECTS AROUND TOWN THAT HAVE A LOT OF EMPTY SPACES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE SENIORS SIMPLY ARE NOT BRINGING CARS INTO THAT, UH, THAT KIND OF HOUSING.
UM, OUR NUMBERS LOOK GOOD NOW.
IT WAS A VERY TOUGH PROJECT BEFORE, AND WE'RE ABLE TO SERVE, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SENIORS AT THE SITE.
SO THAT'S BEEN REALLY HELPFUL.
UM, W W WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU IN CASE FOLKS HAVE FOLLOWUPS.
DID WE HAVE SOMEONE HERE FROM FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK SO.
AND I THINK, UM, BAEZ WAS GONNA HOP ON AT 10 30 POTENTIALLY.
UM, AND SO WE'LL, WE'LL PULL HIM UP, UH, WHEN HE GETS HERE.
UH, ARE THERE QUESTIONS FROM THE, FROM THE, FROM THE DAYAS FOR OUR STAFF, FOR GMDC OR FOR PROJECT TRANSITIONS, VICE-CHAIR ALICE AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBER I'LL ALTER THIS PRESENTATION.
GOOD TO SEE ALL THE AFFORDABLE MINUTES THAT WE'RE ABLE TO BRING ONLINE BECAUSE OF THIS, UM, IN THE CHART THAT SHOWED THAT THERE WERE TWO DISTRICTS THAT WERE NOT ABLE TO UTILIZE THIS PROGRAM YET.
UM, ARE THERE ANY OTHER, UM, THINGS THAT MAKE IT PROHIBITIVE OTHER THAN COSTS? UM, IS IT A MATTER OF HOW TO, WHERE THINGS ARE ALLOWED TO BE BUILT, OR IS IT REALLY A MATTER OF FUNDING AND, AND DEMAND FOR THESE TYPES OF UNITS? DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT ONE? IF NOT, I CAN START.
WAS THAT SORRY? I JUST WANT MY MUTE BUTTON, HONESTLY.
I DO THINK IT IS CERTAINLY A BIT OF FUNDING.
UM, A LOT OF AVAILABILITY, OF COURSE, AS WELL.
UM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS.
I'D ALSO SAY SINCE IT'S SUCH A NEW PROGRAM, I FEEL LIKE IT'S SAFE TO SAY, I THINK THESE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO BE CHANGING A LITTLE BIT, UM, PROBABLY IN THIS NEXT YEAR, AS PEOPLE CATCH ON MORE.
GDC HAS USED THIS QUITE A BIT, UM, BUT I HOPE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND EVEN, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPERS
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MARKET RATE DEVELOPERS, UM, THAT ALSO START TO LEARN ABOUT THIS.SO I THINK THESE NUMBERS COULD CHANGE.
AND IT'S HARD TO SAY RIGHT NOW WHERE THAT'S REALLY GOING TO GO AND COUNCIL MEMBER, THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD IS THAT I THINK THE AVAILABILITY OF TRIGGERS THAT'S HELPFUL.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHERE PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO EXPAND THIS IN THE FUTURE.
I THINK THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT MAY HAVE ONLY HAD ONE, ONE PROJECT AS WELL.
AND SO I KNOW THERE ARE ALL PARTS OF TOWN THAT THAT CAN BENEFIT FROM VISITING THIS PROGRAM.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ALTAR, AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN.
UM, AGAIN, I CAN'T TALK TOO WELL, BUT, UM, I'M GOING TO TRY, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS PRESENTATION AND IT'S EXCITING TO SEE, UM, THE PROGRESS THAT'S MADE ON AFFORDABILITY THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
UM, I DID WANT TO ASK A QUESTION.
SO AS I'M UNDERSTANDING AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED, IT'S KIND OF A, A DENSITY THAT HAPPENS BASED ON YOUR BASE ZONING.
UM, AND I THINK IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE'RE SEEING ALL HERE, UM, MY IMPRESSION AT LEAST THAT ALL OF THESE ARE CASES WHERE THEY STARTED WITH THEIR BASE ZONING.
THEY DIDN'T CHANGE THEIR BASE ZONING AND THEN ADDED AFFORDABILITY AND LOCK.
UM, WE NOW HAVE A DIFFERENT SITUATION, WHICH I DON'T KNOW IF WE FULLY ANTICIPATED, UM, BEFORE US FOR A ZONING CASE WHERE WE ARE BEING ASKED TO CHANGE THE ZONING.
AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY WANT TO USE AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED.
UM, BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING JUST AS IN OTHER SITUATIONS THAT THEY COULD GET THEIR NEW ZONING, BUT NOT USE IT AND WE'D HAVE NO WAY UNDER THE CURRENT PROGRAM TO GUARANTEE THAT, UM, AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I'M STRUGGLING WITH.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, UH, IT'S PROBLEMATIC IF WE'RE GIVING ZONING BASED ON AN EXPECTATION OF ADDITIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THEN THERE'S NO MECHANISM TO ENSURE THAT THAT HAPPENS.
UM, AND I, AND I'M CURIOUS OF STAFF HAS ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT OR MY COLLEAGUES ON THAT, UM, BECAUSE IT, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO HELP EASE THE PROCESS.
IF YOU HAVE TO HAVE ALL THESE PRIVATE COVENANTS, THEN YOU HAVE TO BRING IN ALL THESE OTHER FOLKS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO USE IT, UM, WITH THE NEW ZONING AS THE WORKAROUND.
AND SO I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT OPTIONS WE HAVE, OR WE MIGHT CONSIDER, OR THAT IN THE FUTURE, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT GOING TO ADDRESS THINGS IN THE PARTICULAR CASE THAT'S BEFORE US.
UM, BUT IF THIS IS IN FACT WORKING WELL, AND IT IS GETTING US THE AFFORDABILITY TO ACCOMPANY THE DENSITY, UM, THAT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING IF WE COULD ADDRESS NOT ON THE SPOT, BUT OUT OF ALL OF THE AFFORDABILITY PIECES, WE HAVE SEEN ANY CHANGE.
SO, SO FAR I HAVE HAD ONE OR TWO DEVELOPERS REACH OUT, UM, AND MAKE AN ASK AMOUNT OF 40 LOTS EXPLAINING THAT THEY ARE PLANNING AND GOING THROUGH A ZONING CHANGE AND THEN WE'LL PLAN ON APPLYING.
AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE PROGRAM IN ADVANCE OF GOING INTO THAT CHANGE.
I HAVE YET TO ACTUALLY RECEIVE AN APPLICATION THOUGH, FOR EITHER OF THOSE PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS I'VE RECEIVED SO FAR HAVE THOSE CONDITIONS.
AND SO COUNCIL MEMBER QUESTION, WE DON'T HAVE A MECHANISM IN PLACE MORE EASILY WHERE THE AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED CERTIFICATION.
I THINK THAT'S THE HEART OF YOUR QUESTION.
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GIVING THEM, IF, IF THE, IF THE REASON, IF WE WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN THEM THE ZONING, ABSENT AFFORDABILITY ON LOCK AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED,
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YOU KNOW, WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE POTENTIALLY STUCK AND THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE OF THE PARTICULAR EXAMPLE.IT JUST RAISES A REGULATORY CONCERN THAT I WOULD HAVE IN THE FUTURE, UM, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY BUILDING, UM, THE AFFORDABLE UNITS AND COUNCIL MEMBER.
I'D LIKE TO SPEAK BRIEFLY TO THIS, BUT IS YOUR QUESTION ON THE SAME POINT, THERE CAN BE HOLD TIGHT ON THIS FOR A MINUTE.
IT'S THE SAME POINT, BUT ALSO IMPLIED IN WHAT
IN OTHER WORDS, HOW CAN WE CONNECT DESIGN AS IN CHANGE TO REQUIREMENT TO PURSUE AFFORDABILITY? AND LET ME STEP IN HERE THEN ON THIS FRONT, JUST CAUSE I'VE ASKED SOME SIMILAR QUESTIONS, UM, IN MY MIND, UM, AND THEN STAFF, YOU CAN LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY IN PART, THIS IS WHAT AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED ALREADY DOES ON MANY OF THESE PROJECTS WHERE THE REASON WE'RE SEEING VERY FEW ZONING CHANGES RELATED TO THEM, I THINK THEY'RE WIDE HAVE BEEN, HAS ONLY CHANGED FOR THE LAMPPOST PROJECT.
AND I KNOW I ASKED THIS HERE AND HE CAN SPEAK TO THAT, BUT GENERALLY THERE'S NOT AS MANY ZONING CHANGES, WHICH IS PARTLY THE POINT, WHICH IS SO THAT IF SOMEBODY IS ALREADY GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT LEVEL OF AFFORDABILITY, THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE REZONING PROCESS.
AND FRANKLY CREATES AFFORDABILITY THAT THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET OR CREATES DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS.
THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET THROUGH THE REZONING PROCESS AS GMDC MENTIONED.
SO I THINK THE MAIN SOLUTION MIGHT BE TO LOOK AT WHICH FOLKS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR ZONING CHANGES AND WHICH CHANGES AND ENHANCEMENTS WE COULD MAKE TO AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED SO THAT THEY DIDN'T COME AND ASK FOR A ZONING CHANGE, BUT THEY JUST IMMEDIATELY WENT INTO AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED, WHICH IMMEDIATELY TRIGGERS THOSE AFFORDABILITY REQUIREMENTS.
SO I THINK THE ZONING CHANGES COULD BE REALLY INFORMATIVE AS TO WHAT THINGS WE NEED TO ADD INTO AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED TO LOCK IN THAT PERMANENCE.
THE OTHER ISSUE THOUGH, IS AS YOU DESCRIBED, THE COUNCIL NUMBER ALTAR IS BECAUSE WE ARE BANNED FROM INCLUSIONARY ZONING.
THIS IS A CHALLENGE WE FACE NOT JUST ON AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED PROJECTS, BUT ALL DENSITY BONUS PROJECTS.
WHEN SOMEBODY COMES AND PROMISES, IF YOU GIVE ME VMU, I'M GOING TO USE THE BONUS.
IF YOU GET ME, I'M A FIVE, I'M GOING TO DO THE X ON AFFORDABILITY, YOU AND, AND VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY, WE COULD MAKE THAT A REQUIREMENT, BUT WITH OUR BAN ON INCLUSIONARY ZONING, THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE TO GO DO THE PRIVATE CONTRACTS.
SO IN MY, IN MY VIEW, THE TWO WAYS TO SOLVE IT ARE, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE A MORE UPFRONT AND CLEANER PROCESS IN THE PRIVATE WORLD ON RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, FIX THE INCLUSIONARY ZONING STATE LAW, IF WE EVER COULD.
AND THEN FINALLY THOUGH, I THINK THE ONE THAT'S MOST IN OUR CONTROL IS, IS MAKING IT SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME FOR THE ZONING CHANGE BY MAKING SURE THAT WHATEVER THEY'RE NOT GETTING OUT OF AFFORDABILITY ON LOCK THAT THEY NEED TO BE ASKING FOR A ZONING CHANGE FOR.
WE CAN ENHANCE AFFORDABILITY A LOT TO DO THAT SO THAT YOU DON'T GET PUT IN THAT SITUATION, BUT THOSE ARE DRIVING, HEARD YOUR QUESTION LAST WEEK.
SO I'VE HAD COUNCIL NUMBER, UH, UH, ALTERNATIVES.
SO, UM, I APPRECIATE THAT AND, YOU KNOW, I NEED TO STILL THINK IT THROUGH, UM, BUT I, BUT IT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE SOME SORT OF TEMPLATE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS OR SOMETHING THAT ARE READY FOR AFFORDABILITY, A LOCKED, UM, DEVELOPED OVER TIME SO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE WHOEVER'S DOING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR WHO'S THE CONTACT TEAM HAS SOME KIND OF, UM, YOU KNOW, TEMPLATE IN PLACE OR SOMETHING THAT MEANS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE LAWYERS EVERY TIME.
UM, I, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE SOLUTIONS ARE.
UM, BUT I, BUT I DO THINK THAT IT IS, UM, PARTICULARLY WITH CERTAIN BUILDERS, UM, THAT IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT THEY WOULD COME IN FOR THAT ZONING AND THEN NOT DO IT NOW, IT WILL DEPEND ON WHO THEY BROUGHT IN FOR THEIR PARTNER.
UM, AND, AND I, AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, THE BENEFIT OF THIS PROGRAM IS THAT YOU GET SIGNIFICANT AFFORDABILITY WITH THE ADDITIONAL DENSITY, EVEN IF THIS IS HAPPENING IN, IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO I JUST, I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP BRAINSTORMING ON THAT.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE A COUPLE OF THE FOLKS WHO WERE ONLINE, UM, AS WELL AS COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN, MIGHT'VE HAD SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS.
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I, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT I'D LIKE TO DRILL DOWN AND UNDERSTAND WHAT KIND OF ZONING CHANGES ARE BEING IN A REQUEST OR SO, SO, UM, THE SUGGESTION IS PERHAPS YOU BUILT INTO THEBUT I WOULD, I WOULD WANT TO UNDERSTAND BETTER EXACTLY WHAT AS ZONING CHANGES ARE, ARE NEEDED.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT IS THE BARRIER TO USING A PORTABILITY? ONE OTHER QUESTION REALLY IS KIND OF RELATED, BUT, UM, I'M JUST WONDERING TO WHAT I AGREE.
UM, WELL, WELL ACTUALLY YOU ALREADY ANSWERED IT.
I MEAN, THAT HAS TO DO WITH MARKET FORCES AND, UM, WHAT DEGREE THAT THIS PROGRAM WORKS FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT, IN SOME PARTS OF TOWN, OR MAYBE NOT OTHER PARTS OF TOWN.
SO REMEMBER THIS IS MY EMAIL AND I DID WANT TO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S REALLY CLOSING LOOP ON THE QUESTIONS.
UM, I DO NOT HAVE SAY THAT STAFF WILL GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS THAT WE'VE SEEN THUS FAR AND DO A DEEP DIVE INTO WHETHER OR NOT WE BELIEVE, UM, PREDICATED ON THE AFFORDABILITY.
AND WE'LL ALSO TALK TO OUR LEGAL STAFF.
UM, I THINK WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT ON THIS.
AS I MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF CONSTRAINTS, UM, INCLUSIONARY ZONING THAT REALLY CAN TIE OFF HANDS, UM, IN TERMS OF ZONING EIGHT HOMES.
AND THIS IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE WILL LOOK AT.
UH, SO WHILE I LIKE TO CALL IT PAEZ TO TALK JUST ABOUT A PROJECT THAT HAS BROKEN GROUND, AND THEN IF ALSO IT SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ZONING STUFF, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
AND THEN I KNOW RACHEL AT, UM, GMDC CAN SPEAK TO THIS AS WELL, IF WE COULD UNMUTE MR. CAUSEY, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
LET ME SEE IF I, I THINK I CAN TOO, RIGHT.
UH, GREG, UM, UH, I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY GO OVER A FEW THINGS BEFORE I GET INTO THE REASONS I'LL JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT ITSELF.
UM, SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AI.
LAMPPOSTS IS LOCATED AT 12 500 LAMPPOSTS LANE.
UH, IT'S IN DISTRICT SEVEN AND IT CONTAINS 17 MULTI BEDROOM FAMILY-FRIENDLY TOWNHOUSE, TOWNHOUSE STYLE HOMES, UM, FOR OWNERSHIP BY FAMILIES THAT ARE 80% OR LESS, THE AUSTIN MFI.
AND THAT WORKS OUT TO BE ABOUT 78,000 FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR.
UH, THE AVERAGE VALUE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD OF HOMES IS WELL OVER 360,000 AND ESCALATING.
UH, BUT THESE BRAND NEW HOMES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR JUST OVER 200,000.
UH, IT'S THE FIRST DEVELOPMENT THAT'S UTILIZING UNLOCKED.
UH, IT'S THE FIRST ONE TO BREAK GROUND.
AND WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A VIRTUAL GROUNDBREAKING THAT MANDY AND, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS CASAR AND POOL, AND THE MAYOR WERE ABLE TO ATTEND.
SO THAT WAS GREAT, UM, THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT QUALIFIED FOR THE TIER ONE ORDINANCE PROVISIONS, WHICH, UH, WAIVE OR RELAX, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PARKING AND SETBACKS AND DENSITY LEVELS.
UH, AS LONG AS AT LEAST 50% OF THE UNITS ARE INCOME RESTRICTED, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO USE, UM, FUNDS FROM THE 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND THROUGH THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION, UM, ABOUT $1.4 MILLION.
UH, AND WE'RE ABLE TO USE THAT TO LEVERAGE OTHER, UH, FINANCING AS WELL.
UM, HOW A FULLY UNLOCKED HELPED WAS THAT, UM, THIS PARTICULAR SIDE, WHICH IS 1.2, FIVE ACRES WAS, UH, EVALUATED AND WAS ABLE TO PUT IN SEVEN UNITS.
UM, AND, AND THAT, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS THE SF SIX SETBACKS AND PARKING REQUIREMENTS.
AND WITH THE SETBACKS REMOVED, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT 10 WITH THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS REMOVED.
SO THAT'S A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN THE SEVEN WE WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN ABLE TO PUT ON THAT LOT.
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UM, SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REZONING.THIS WAS ONE SITE THAT WAS REZONED FROM SF THREE AND SF SIX WAS CRITICAL BECAUSE IT WAS KIND OF AN ODD SHAPE LOT, AND IT ALLOWED THE UNITS TO BE CLUSTERED, UH, EFFICIENTLY AND, AND AROUND AROUND TREES AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS.
THERE WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, A CREEK THROUGH THE SITE THAT A CHANNEL THROUGH THE SITE THAT WE HAD TO WORK AROUND.
UM, AND IF WE WERE TO LEAVE IT AT SF THREE, YOU KNOW, FORMERLY UNLOCKED ALLOWS US, UH, SIX OR EIGHT UNITS AT THE MOST.
AND LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WERE ABLE TO GET 17 IN HERE, UH, COMBINING ALL OF THESE, UM, RELAXED REGULATIONS IN THE FOREPLAY UNLOCKED AND THE FUNDING FROM HFC, UM, AND THE SF SIX ALSO ALLOWED, UM, THE ADDITIONAL IMPERVIOUS COVER THAT WE NEEDED, UM, ON THESE, ON THIS LOT, THE REZONING TOOK ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AND I WANT TO DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE ORIGINAL COUNCIL RESOLUTION, WHICH SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT.
UM, AND I QUOTE, WHEREAS THE REZONING PROCESS MAY BE COSTLY TIME CONSUMING AND MAY ULTIMATELY LIMIT THE NUMBER OF AFFORDABLE UNITS, THE LEVEL OF AFFORDABILITY AND THE NUMBER OF FAMILY-FRIENDLY UNITS IN AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND ALLOWING AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO BE BUILT BY, RIGHT WITHOUT REZONING MAY BENEFIT THE CITY'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK.
AND THEN I WANT TO QUICKLY TOUCH ON SITE PLAN REVIEW AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER CASARA ALLUDED TO, WHETHER IT'S STILL SOME, SOME THAT CAN BE MADE, UM, TO, TO IMPROVE, UH, AND, AND HAVE SOME OF THESE, UH, PROJECTS GO THROUGH, UH, FASTER THROUGH THE PROCESS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT TOOK 10 MONTHS TO DO THIS FULL SITE PLAN REVIEW.
AND AGAIN, I WANT TO DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION, WHICH SPECIFICALLY CALLED FOR, AND I QUOTE A MODIFIED SITE PLAN PROCESS THAT MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLES RESIDENTIAL SITES WHILE STILL ADDRESSING HEALTH AND SAFETY AND ADDRESSING DREAMS IN THE SAME WAY THAT GRANTED HIS ADDRESS FOR NON-MOBILE THE FAMILY STRUCTURES WITH THE SAME IMPERVIOUS COVER, INCLUDING ANY ADJUSTMENTS TO FEE SCHEDULE AS NECESSARY FOR DEVELOPMENTS WITH 16 OR FEWER UNITS.
UM, THERE'S STILL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S PROMISE IN, IN THE ELA DRAFT, UH, CODE REWRITE, UH, BUT IT STILL NEEDS MORE WORK.
UM, THE 10 MONTHS AND THE FOUR MONTHS, UH, YOU KNOW, TOGETHER HAVE COST US QUITE A BIT IN INCREASING MATERIAL COSTS.
UH, EVERY MONTH I WOULD SAY THAT EVERY MONTH THAT IS SPENT IN THE REZONING OR SITE PLANNING PROCESS IS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING THE PRICING.
AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS FIRSTHAND, JUST FROM THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS IN MIND THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH STAFF ON.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF CONNOR IS ON THE LINE, BUT, UH, HE WAS GONNA HELP ME KIND OF WORK THROUGH THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAD COME UP WITH.
IF, IF A COUNCIL MEMBER COULD, SORRY, IF THEY'D LIKE TO HEAR THAT WE MIGHT WIND UP HAVING SOME TIME, I DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR FROM JEN DC.
AND I THINK THAT WELL TOMORROW HAS NOW JOINED US.
UM, AND SO CERTAINLY EMAIL US THAT LIST AND THEN WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH MORE QUESTIONS IT IS THAT WE HAVE TO, THAT WE HAVE TO COVER IT.
BUT THAT IS, UM, REALLY HELPFUL TO KNOW THAT WE STILL HAVE PIECES OF THIS TO GO, BUT ALSO GREAT TO HEAR THAT ON THIS PROJECT, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU WERE GOING TO DO SEVEN.
NOW YOU'RE ABLE TO DO 17 BY MY MATH.
THAT'S NEARLY A 150% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF AFFORDABLE HOMES YOU'RE ABLE TO DO THERE.
I WAS ACTUALLY, UH, DRIVING THROUGH GRACIE WOODS THE OTHER DAY AND SAW A 1970S HOUSE ON THE MARKET FOR I THINK, $500,000.
SO PUTTING BRAND NEW HOUSES ON THE MARKET, THEY'RE AT 200,000 WHEN THE OLD ONES ARE GOING UP INTO THE HALF MILLION RANGE, UM, IS REALLY POWERFUL.
SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING THERE.
IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THE ZONING ISSUE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE HAD EFFECTED.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, JUST AN EXAMPLE, WE WERE APPROACHED BY A FAMILY WHO WANTED TO SELL US THEIR LAND IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS WE WORK IN, THE ZONING IS CURRENTLY ONLY TWO UNITS COULD GO ON IT.
THEY WANTED A MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT AFFORDABLE WITH AFFORDABILITY ON LOTS.
WE COULD PUT EIGHT UP TO EIGHT UNITS ON IT, WHICH SOUNDED LIKE A LOT TO US IN THE BEGINNING.
UM, BUT LOT IS EVEN THOUGH ITS OWN SINGLE FAMILY, IT'S OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET.
SO IT'S A VERY, VERY LARGE LOT.
AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT, IT WAS ACTUALLY FEE, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE AND WOULD FEEL MORE LIKE A COMMUNITY TO PUT 14 UNITS ON IT.
SO THAT'S A CASE WHERE WE WOULD NEED A ZONING CHANGE AND THEN AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED, BUT IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, THIS GIANT DENSITY PROJECT, IT'S A, IT'S A LOT OF AREA AND A LOT, YOU KNOW, OTHER, SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF CASES WHERE IT'S THE SIZE OF THE
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LOT AND THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PROPERTIES OF A LOT THAT MAKE IT IT'S, THE ZONING JUST DOESN'T REALLY SUIT THE LOT.SO I JUST WANTED TO OFFER AN EXAMPLE OF A TIME WHERE WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED CAUSE OBVIOUSLY 72,000 PER UNIT FOR, UM, HOME OWNERSHIP IS A LOT BETTER THAN 125,000 JUST FOR THE COST OF THE LAND.
SO, UM, JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING WE'RE LOOKING AT, EVEN JUST FOR SINGLE FAMILY, IT WOULD STILL BE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES ON THE LOT.
IT JUST, YOU KNOW, ALLOWS US THAT KIND OF FLEXIBILITY.
SO A ZONING CHANGE WOULD STILL BE NEEDED REALLY USEFUL.
THANK YOU, RACHEL, DO WE HAVE WALTER ON THE LINE? YEAH, I'M HERE.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU.
WHY DON'T YOU GIVE US TWO QUICK MINUTES? UM, YEAH, EXCUSE ME.
THIS IS THE BIGGEST THING FOR US.
THAT'S BEEN AT ZILKER STUDIOS, UH, WHICH WE'RE GOING TO BREAK GROUND IN THE SPRING.
UH, IT'LL BE 110 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS ON A HALF ACRE ON SOUTH LAMAR AND WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT, UH, THE BENEFITS OF THE AFFORDABILITY UNLOCKED, ESSENTIALLY HEIGHT AND PARKING.
UM, INSTEAD OF BEING CAPPED AT 60 FEET, WE CAN GO UP TO 84, 85 FEET AND THAT GETS US THAT EXTRA STORY.
UM, WE, WE MIGHT'VE BEEN OKAY WITH A COUPLE DOZEN PARKING SPACES, BUT THAT DIDN'T BECOME A, UM, SOMETHING SPECIAL THAT REQUIRED EXTRA APPROVALS.
UM, REMARKABLY, A COUPLE OF THE OTHER PROJECTS WE HAVE ON OUR DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE DIDN'T NEED THE BENEFIT OF AFFORDABILITY, UNLOCK THAT.
THEN WE KEEP LOOKING AT NEW SITES AND COMPATIBILITY AND THERE'LL BE OTHER ISSUES.
AND, UH, THE ORDINANCE HAS REALLY HELPED.
SO I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T HAVE MUCH MORE TO ADD OTHER THAN TO SAY THANK YOU.
AND IT'S WORKING ON, ON ZILKER.
HOW MANY FEWER UNITS WOULD YOU HAVE HAD? UH, IF, IF, IF WITHOUT IT, HOW MUCH LESS THAN ONE 10, YOU KNOW, IT'S SIX STORIES.
SO IT'D BE ESSENTIALLY WE'D LOSE A STORY.
UM, AT LEAST A DOZEN UNITS, MAYBE 18 UNITS TOTAL.
THANK YOU, WALTER AND WALTER MORALES ON FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES.
UH, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND PLEASE STICK AROUND IN CASE FOLKS HAS QUESTIONS.
I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET US DONE WITH ITEM BY 11.
SO WE STILL HAVE A FEW MINUTES, UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR OUR GUESTS OR FOR THE STAFF? OKAY.
WELL THEN IN THIS MOMENT THAT IT MIGHT BE SMALL TO HEAR, UM, UH, FROM, FROM MR. KENNEY OR MR. KELSEY ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE WHAT SEEMS TO BE WORKING WELL EVEN BETTER.
ARE YOU THERE TO DO THEIR STUFF AND I MIGHT HAVE DONE YOU, YOU, OH, I SEE CONNOR.
AND UH, LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET HIM OFF MUTE.
UM, GREAT, UM, LARGE SITES WITH, UH, HIGHER DENSITY ZONING OR COMMERCIAL ZONING ARE REALLY JUST A DIFFERENT BEAST THAN AS A THREE ZONING.
AND PARTICULARLY LIKE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT FUNDING AND THE PROJECT CONNECT TAX RATE ELECTION, UH, I THINK A LOT OF THESE KIND OF, UH, INTERIOR NEIGHBORHOODS SITES WHERE WE MIGHT BE SEEING SOME DISPLACEMENT AND THEN EVEN THE SITES WHERE WE'RE SEEING OUT IN THE TOP OF THIS THAT ARE REALLY HAVING A LOT OF HEARTACHE FOR A LOT OF US AND TRYING TO SORT THROUGH THOSE ISSUES, UM, COULD REALLY BE SERVED BY, UH, LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE KIND OF SF THREE SF TO, UH, UH, ADJUSTMENTS THAT ARE MADE THAT WE HAVE THESE VERY LARGE SITES ARE KIND OF ODD SHAPED SITES WOULD NOT BRING MUCH STREET FRONTAGE IF WE WERE ABLE TO GET SOME SORT OF FLEXIBILITY OR SCALABLE UNIT BONUS.
UM, LIKE YOU HAVE LIKE THE WAY THE SF THREE SS, TEXAS CONFIGURED, WHICH IS A UNITS PER ACRE RATHER THAN SF THREE, WHICH IS JUST TWO YEARS PER LOT, UH, THAT WOULD HELP TREMENDOUSLY.
AND THE OTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT IT IS IS THAT THE HEIGHT AND AFFORDABILITY FOR THESE SMALLER, FOR THESE SMALLER SITES.
SO I THINK THERE'S POTENTIALLY SOME TRADE OFFS AND COMPROMISES HERE WHERE WE COULD JUST LOOK FOR SOME, FOR SOME FLEXIBILITY TO GET THOSE 50% AFFORDABLE UNITS, WHICH WERE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET ON SOME OF THESE MEN TOPPLE THIS LOTS AND, AND SOME OF THESE OTHER LOTS THAT ARE NEAR PROJECT CONNECT WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT PUTTING UP BIG OLD BUILDINGS.
UM, AND THEN AS WELL, UH, THE SITE REVIEW PROCESS, UM, IT'S KINDA THE, THE, UH, UNDONE ACTION ITEM ON AFFORDABILITY AND LOCKED IN.
AND, UH, WE ARE, UH, REALLY EXCITED AND INTERESTING ABOUT WORKING WITH STAFF AND OFFERING SOME OF OUR LOTS AS KIND OF TEST CASES TO HELP WORK THROUGH THESE, UH, WORK THROUGH THESE ISSUES AND HELP DESIGN A GOOD POLICY.
UM, ARE THERE ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOLKS HAVE COME UP WITH HERE? SHOULD WE GET MOVING
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ON? OKAY, WELL THEN MY QUICK MATH, YOU KNOW, ON THESO I KNOW IT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE MORE THAN DOUBLING, UM, THE AMOUNT OF HOUSING THAT YOU'LL HAVE ACROSS THOSE TWO SITES USING THIS.
IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, SIMILITUDE HAD THE BIGGEST BUMP, UH, FIGHT AS DESCRIBED 50% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF UNITS YOU COULD DO THERE.
UH, AND, AND THEN WALTER AT ZILKER STUDIOS REALLY NEEDED, UM, REALLY LOW COST HOUSING THERE.
UM, ACTUALLY, WALTER, CAN YOU REMIND ME WHAT THE RENT IS NOWADAYS ON A, ON A 30% MFI UNIT SINCE IT GENERALLY THE RENT? UH, WELL, THE RENTAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFORDABILITY ARE LOCKED ARE 30% TO 50% MFI OR STAFF, EITHER A STAFFER, WHOEVER ON THE LINE WANTS TO REMIND ME WHAT THE LATEST NUMBER IS ON, ON PER MONTH COST MANDY, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WERE ON IT.
UM, SO THE 30%, OR LESS THAN 500, LESS THAN 500 FOR RENT AND UTILITIES.
AND SO OBVIOUSLY CREATING DOZENS MORE AT $500 IN A BRAND NEW APARTMENT BUILDING ALSO, ALSO.
WELL, THANK YOU ALL FOR, FOR THIS.
UH, I SAID IT WAS ONCE A MONTH CHECK IN, BUT ACTUALLY IT LOOKS LIKE APPLICATIONS.
THEY START COMING IN IN AUGUST.
SO WE ARE RIGHT AT A ONE YEAR CHECK-IN AND OVER 2000 AFFORDABLE HOMES COMING IN THROUGH THE PRO THIS YEAR.
[2. Briefing and discussion on emergency housing resources and policies for residents impacted by the COVID-19 local disaster and the City’s housing strategy related to the COVID-19 disaster.]
UM, NEXT WE WILL MOVE ON TO, UM, THE ITEM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FIRST, WHICH IS A PRESENTATION ON OUR HOUSING STRATEGY RELATED TO THE COVID-19 DISASTER.AND PULLING UP THAT PRESENTATION, WE HAVE NEFERTITI JACK AND SHE IS GOING TO BE PROVIDING THE PROGRAM.
THIS WILL BE A BRIEF UPDATE TO LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE SINCE SAM APPLICATIONS BEGAN COMING IN LAST MONTH IN AUGUST.
IF YOU COULD MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE FOR ME.
UM, THIS MORNING I'LL BRIEFLY PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE BUDGET, UH, OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND ELIGIBILITY, AS WELL AS HIGHLIGHT THE TENANTS STABILIZATION SERVICES, OUR MARKETING AND OUTREACH STRATEGY OF THE APPLICANT DATA, AS WELL AS, UH, GO OVER SOME OF THE PROGRAM IN HEAD ENHANCEMENTS.
AND SO THE RENT BUDGET IS PRIMARILY FUNDED WITH CARES ACT FUNDING OVER $12.6 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS, ALONG WITH A $2.6 MILLION OF FUNDING FROM THE CDBG CV DOLLARS, AS WELL AS A $2.5 MILLION IN GENERAL FUNDS.
SO WE HAVE NEARLY 500,000 FOR TARGETED COMMUNITY OUTREACH, WHICH I'LL ALSO GO OVER IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.
THE STRUCTURE, SOME OF THIS WAS SHARED AT THE JULY MEETING.
UM, JUST WANT TO JUST REEMPHASIZE AN UPDATE OF A FEW POINTS ON HERE.
UH, OUR PARTNERS INCLUDE HAKA, CVR AND COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP WITH, UH, GETTING THE WORD OUT, HELPING PEOPLE, UH, APPLY FOR THE ASSISTANCE AND HELPING THEM WITH THE DOCUMENTATION UPLOADING ALL OF THOSE FORMS TO, UM, THE APPLICATION PORTAL.
THE GOAL THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM PERIOD IS TO PAY APPROXIMATELY 2000 RENTS MONTHLY FROM AUGUST.
UM, WELL FOR SEPTEMBER THROUGH JANUARY, 2021, AND IT IS THROUGH A RANDOMIZED SELECTION PROCESS AND IT WAS DECIDED THIS MORNING, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
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RANDOMIZED SELECTION AT, TO TAKE PLACE SEPTEMBER 14TH AT NOON.AND SO WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT BECAUSE WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MORE PEOPLE, UH, BEGIN.
UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO STAY HIGH FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE APPLYING FOR THE FUNDING.
THE PROGRAM DOES SERVE HOUSEHOLDS AT 80% MEDIUM FAMILY INCOME AND BELOW.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO DESIGN A PROGRAM THAT, UM, FUNDS PEOPLE WITH TRADITIONAL, AS WELL AS NON TRADITIONAL LEASE AGREEMENTS.
THEY CAN'T HAVE, UM, DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS AND THEY MUST DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY HOUSEHOLD HAS BEEN FINANCIALLY IMPACTED BY COVID AND THEY MUST RESIDE WITHIN AUSTIN'S FULL PURPOSE JURISDICTION AT THE BENEFIT FOR THIS PROGRAM IS A FULL CONTRACT RENT PAYMENT, WHICH IS PAID DIRECTLY TO THE LANDLORD HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE BE LOW, 30% MEDIUM FAMILY INCOME ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THREE MONTHS OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
WE SHARED, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE INCLUDED WITH THE, THIS, THIS NEXT ITERATION OF THE RENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE PROVIDED SERVICES IN ADDITION TO DIRECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE, WHICH INCLUDES THE EVICTION DEFENSE SERVICES AS WELL AS TENANT AND LANDLORD MEDIATION SERVICES, UM, ACROSS THE NATION.
UH, THERE WAS AN ANTICIPATION THAT WE WOULD SEE A LARGE NUMBER OF EVICTIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE UNABLE TO PAY RENT.
SO WE REALLY WANTED TO BE PROACTIVE WITH COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE OVER $400,000 IN EVICTION DEFENSE SERVICES AND TENANT LANDLORD MEDIATION SERVICES.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, WE HAVE ALLOCATED APPROXIMATELY $600,000 FOR PERSONS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM TO PAY THEIR LANDLORDS IN THE EVENT THAT THERE ARE FEES THAT ARE IN ADDITION TO THE RENT THAT THEY OWE.
UM, IF WE'RE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE SOME TYPE OF SETTLEMENT OR AGREEMENT, THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO, UH, PAY THE LANDLORD TO MAKE THE LANDLORD HOLE IN THE, WHICH WE HOPE WILL BE RARE INSTANCES IN THE RARE INSTANCE THAT MMM, PERSONS ARE GOING TO FACE EVICTION.
WE HAVE ALLOCATED $280,000 IN MOVING FOR MOVING AND STORAGE FEES AND ALSO TO HELP HOUSEHOLDS TO HELP OUT WHO NEED TO BE MOVED OR FIND A NEW LOCATION BECAUSE WE DO UNDERSTAND, AND NOT EVERY SITUATION, YOU KNOW, A TENANT WILL BE PREVENTED FROM BEING EVICTED.
UM, SUCCESS WITH THE FIRST PROGRAM WAS, UM, THE OUTREACH STRATEGY IN WHICH WE PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO GET THE WORD OUT.
UH, WE WILL CONTINUE TO, OR WE WANT TO BUILD UPON THAT SUCCESS AND REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY WORK AND LIVE.
I HAVE A VERY STRATEGIC FOCUS REACHING COMMUNITIES OF COLORS, COLOR AS CENTRAL WORKERS.
AND THEN WE WILL PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO REALLY TAP INTO THEIR NETWORKS, THEIR EXPERTISE, AND HELP REACH SOME OF THE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES.
THIS OUTREACH STRATEGY WILL INCLUDE, UH, INCLUDE DIRECT MAIL, UH, AISD PROGRAMS, PART REC CENTERS, AND GETTING FLYERS, UH, TO THESE VARIOUS RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS.
WE HAVE ALSO HELD A NUMBER OF GRANT WEBINARS FOR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, AND WE HAD, UH, WEBINARS FOR LANDLORDS AND WE RECEIVE FEEDBACK THAT THOSE, UM, WERE VERY HELPFUL, HELPFUL FOR THE LANDLORDS WHO ATTENDED AND PARTICIPATED AND RECEIVED INFORMATION REGARDING THE RENT PROGRAM.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE ARE, WE ARE WORKING WITH, UM, COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE OVER $400,000 IN FUNDING, UM, TO PARTNERS EXPERIENCE SO THAT WE CAN REALLY MAXIMIZE OUR IMPACT IN GETTING THE WORD OUT.
UH, WE NEED ASSISTANCE, UH, INFORMING THE PUBLIC ABOUT RENT THROUGH PHONE CALLS, EMAILS, HOSTING THEIR OWN WEBINARS, AND THEN POSTING THE INFORMATION THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA.
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ASSISTANCE, UH, HELPING PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND THEIR ELIGIBILITY, HELPING INDIVIDUALS, UH, CREATE EMAIL ADDRESSES, UM, AND AS WELL AS UPLOADING DOCUMENTATION AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE PULLING THE RIGHT OF PROOFS OF FORM, WHICH I WILL SHARE THAT THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE DELAYS THAT OUR PARTNERS HAVE EXPERIENCED, UM, PROCESSING THE APPLICATION IS BASICALLY JUST THE INFORMATION THAT, UM, APPLICANTS ARE PROVIDING AND MAKING SURE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT DOCUMENTATION COULD REALLY SPEED UP THE PROCESS.I JUST WANT TO SHARE THAT THIS INFORMATION, WE GET UPDATES ON A DAILY BASIS, EVEN THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
UH, THE DATA THAT I'M SHARING WITH YOU THIS MORNING IS CURRENT.
AS OF SEPTEMBER 3RD, AS A BACK DATE, WE HAD OVER 7,800 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE STARTED AND THESE WERE NOT ACTUALLY SUBMITTED, BUT WE HAD OVER 7,800 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE STARTED OVER 1500 THAT WERE DENIED BASED UPON THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED.
AND WE HAD A TOTAL OF 3,900 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO DATE THIS MORNING, THAT IS OVER THINK 4,400 APPLICATIONS.
AND I ALSO SUBMITTED 2,400 WILL RECEIVE REMINDER NOTIFICATIONS.
BASICALLY, THAT'S THE REMAINING NUMBER OF THOSE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE INCOMPLETE.
WE WANT TO REALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO COMPLETE THEIR APPLICATIONS IF THEY NEED ASSISTANCE.
SOME OF THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WE'VE SEEN ABOUT THE APPLICANTS WHO ARE APPLYING A PRE COVID INCOME WAS ABOUT A $27,000 OF ALMOST 28, $28,000 IN THEIR REPORTED CURRENT INCOME IS ABOUT $14,833, WHICH IS ABOUT A 50% DECLINE IN THEIR INCOME.
SO WE REALLY SEE WHY THIS, UM, ASSISTANCE IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
THE ASTERISKS INDICATE THAT THIS IS ONLY FOUR.
SO THIS IS FOR HOUSEHOLDS 30% AND BELOW AS WELL AS 80% AND BELOW.
SO IT'S ALL OF THOSE HOUSEHOLDS.
77% OF THE APPLICANTS, UM, ARE 30% AND 30% MFI AND 62% ARE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS.
AND SO WE ARE SEEING A NUMBER OF INDICATIONS THAT, UM, PEOPLE APPLYING FOR THIS ASSISTANCE ARE FALLING IN LINE WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF, UH, WHAT WOULD DESCRIBE HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE VULNERABLE TO JUST PLACEMENT 21% HAVE REPORTED HEAD OF HOUSEHOLDS AS BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN OR BLACK AND 36 HAVE REPORTED THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD AS HISPANIC.
SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES THAT WE HAVE OUTLINED ON THE PORTAL THAT PEOPLE ARE STATING THAT THEY NEED HELP WITH INCLUDE UTILITY ASSISTANCE.
WE'VE SEEN 42% REQUESTING A SUPPORT FOR UTILITIES, 11% HAVE REPORTED NEEDING EVICTION PREVENTION SERVICES, AND 4% HAVE REPORTED THAT THEY NEED ASSISTANCE WITH TENANT RELOCATION SERVICES.
AS A RESULT OF THAT, AND AS A RESULT OF FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS WELL AS A DATA THAT WE RECEIVE ON A REGULAR BASIS, WE, OUR GOAL IS TO DESIGN A PROGRAM THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY NEEDS.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROGRAM IS, UH, SENSITIVE TO THOSE NEEDS OF, UH, OUR CITY.
UH, THE APPLICANTS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
AND, UH, WE SEE THAT APPROXIMATELY 93% OF PERSONS APPLYING, UM, DID NOT HAVE, ARE, DID SUBMIT A, UM, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, BUT THAT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT.
UM, APPLICANTS CAN BE IN A CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP FOR RENT OUTSIDE OF A TRADITIONAL LEASE AGREEMENT.
AND THEN WE ARE ALSO, UH, EXAMINING HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE PROGRAM SO THAT IT'S DESIGNED TO PROVIDE A WARM HANDOFF FOR PERSONS WHO NEED ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
SO WE ARE WORKING ON THAT AND, UH, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ELIMINATE AS MANY BARRIERS AS POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE NEEDING THIS ASSISTANCE.
YES, BASICALLY, THIS IS JUST A TIMELINE OF WHERE WE ARE.
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LAUNCHED IN AUGUST FOR RIGHT NOW IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CONTRACTS, UH, WHICH WILL BE AWARDED THIS MONTH, AS WELL AS THE TENANTS STABILIZATION STABILIZATION SERVICES CONTRACT.SO, UM, THE FINAL PROGRAM APPLICATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED IN DECEMBER.
UH, EVEN THOUGH THE PROGRAM WILL CONTINUE UNTIL JANUARY, WE WILL, UH, STOP TAKING THE APPLICATIONS IN DECEMBER OR WHEN FOLKS, UH, PROGRAM FUNDS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED.
AND NEXT SIDE HERE IS THE CONTACT INFORMATION, UM, TO THE RENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
IT'S AUSTIN, TEXAS.GOV BACKSLASH MAN.
UH, PERSONS CAN ALSO EMAIL AUSTIN REN@CDRASSOCIATES.COM.
AND THE CALL CENTER IS OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FROM EIGHT UNTIL 6:00 PM.
AND THE NUMBERS LISTED THERE (512) 488-1397.
AND THAT'S BASICALLY ALL I HAVE FOR YOU THIS MORNING.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS FOR QUESTIONS, IF ANY, THANK YOU.
AND MS. JACKSON, UH, ANY, UH, QUESTIONS FOR OUR STAFF.
YOU MENTIONED THAT SEPTEMBER 14TH, YOU'RE DOING THE NEXT, UH, CHOOSING, UH, YOU KNOW, FAIRLY AND RANDOMLY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO QUALIFY.
DID YOU ALREADY DO ONE SELECTION OR IS THIS THE FIRST ONE FOR RENT TO POINT OUT? NO, THIS IS THE FIRST ONE.
UM, THE FIRST ONE WAS COMPLETED ON AUGUST 26 AND WE HAD NOT PLANNED TO ANNOUNCE THESE BECAUSE WHAT WE HOPE IS THAT PEOPLE WILL JUST, UM, APPLY AS THEY NEED ASSISTANCE.
BUT, UH, WHAT WE SAW WAS THAT THERE WAS A PEAK IN THE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS RIGHT BEFORE THAT, UM, THAT ADVISE JARRING ON, UM, THE 26TH OF AUGUST.
SO THAT'S WHY WE DECIDED THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ANNOUNCE THE NEXT ONE.
YOU KNOW, MY EXPERIENCE WAS WHEN PEOPLE KNEW IT WAS AUGUST 26TH, YOU KNOW, LOCAL NEWS STATIONS WERE MORE WILLING TO COVER IT.
PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS A SENSE OF URGENCY, RIGHT? THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION WAS WHETHER YOU SAW A SPIKE COMING UP TO THE 26TH.
UM, AND THEN HOW MANY FOR THE, JUST SELECT FOR THE 20TH OR THE 26, WE STARTED WITH A SMALLER SELECTION.
WE, WE, WE, THERE WAS A TOTAL OF 500 AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO GO THROUGH THAT.
WE WANT TO SEE WHAT THE PROCESS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AT WHAT WE DO SEE IS THAT PEOPLE STILL NEED SOME GUIDANCE SUBMITTING THE RIGHT DOCUMENTATION.
WE CAN HANDLE MORE, BUT WE'RE GOING TO START WITH A SMALL AS DISEASE, OUR FIRST RUN.
AND THEN WE WILL, WE DEFINITELY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO MORE, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO GET ALL OF THE INFORMATION FOR THE INITIAL APPLICANTS THAT WERE DRAWN THE FIRST TIME.
AND THEN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO WELL AGAIN, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT RAMP IT UP FROM THIS GROUP, AND THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PICKING UP A LOT MORE FOLKS ON SEPTEMBER THE 14TH.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE POTENTIALLY ASKING FOR HELP IN THE COMMUNITY AND FROM US TO WORK IT OUT BEFORE SEPTEMBER 14TH, AGAIN, PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED TO, TO APPLY.
THIS IS ONE THING I WANT TO MAKE SURE IS THESE ARE RANDOMIZED SHORT OF ALL OF THE APPLICANTS.
THERE STILL WILL BE NO DEADLINE PER SE.
IT WILL BE A ROLLING DEADLINE.
SO YOU GET YOUR APPLICATION, WE'LL STILL BE CONSIDERING YOU, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT PULL UP YOUR APPLE PATIENT ROLES OR WHEN YOU ONLY NEED, UM, AND YOU WILL CONSTANTLY BE CONSIDERED.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF COUNCIL? I THINK IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP REMINDING FOLKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED EVICTION MORATORIUM, BOTH BY OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NOW BY THE CDC, UH, THAT COVERS VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY THAT WOULD LOSE THEIR, WOULD LOSE THEIR HOME.
UM, UH, AND SO REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET THAT MESSAGE OUT TO THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU WOULDN'T GET KICKED OUT FOR LACK OF PAYMENT, BUT YOU STILL, YOU STILL GO RED.
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THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE RENT IS PAID.AND SO REALLY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO, TO YOU TO APPLY NUMBER KITCHEN.
I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON A DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD, UM, IN ONE OF OUR MEETINGS.
I THINK IT MAY BE AN, A MEETING ABOUT, UM, ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS PROGRAM AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
UM, AT THAT TIME I UNDERSTOOD FROM OUR CONVERSATION THAT, UM, THERE SOME AVAILABILITY FOR FOLKS THAT ARE STAYING IN THE SAME HOTELS, BUT WE ALSO HAD SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE, HOW TO DO A WARM HAND OFF FOR FOLKS THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UM, THAT DON'T HAVE A HOME IN OUR HORMONES.
AND SO WOULDN'T BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING YOU ALL WERE THINKING ABOUT, UM, FIGURING OUT.
SO JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN TO SEE IF YOU HAD, UM, HAD A CHANCE TO, TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
RIGHT? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I MENTIONED, UM, IS THE PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS AND HOW, WHAT WE CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED DIRECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE MIGHT NEED, THEY MIGHT BE HOMELESS, EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
THEY MIGHT NEED A UTILITY ASSISTANCE.
WE ARE LOOKING AT THE PROGRAM, WE RAN OUT OF TIME.
WE WERE, AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT SINCE THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD WITH YOU.
WE, UM, WE DON'T EXACTLY KNOW.
AND SO I DON'T WANT TO PUT ANYTHING OUT THERE.
WE HAVE LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS RIGHT NOW WHERE PEOPLE RECEIVE A, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH THE PORTAL, THEY RECEIVE A REFERRAL NUMBER OR A LINK TO A WEBSITE FOR THE VARIOUS SERVICES.
WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING, UH, MORE, UM, I GUESS, AGGRESSIVE OR CUSTOMER SERVICE FRIENDLY SO THAT WE CAN EITHER PULL THOSE NAMES, UM, AND PUT THEM DIRECTLY IN CONTACT WITH THE SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT HAVE THE ASSISTANCE.
SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE FALLS THROUGH THE GAP, UM, DO THE GAPS.
AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT, UH, MAKES SENSE, EVEN IF WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO TWEAK IT, WE WILL FOLLOW UP AND LET YOU KNOW.
BUT THAT'S VERY MUCH THE IDEA THERE, OF COURSE, FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T PART OF THAT CONVERSATION IS JUST SO THAT FOLKS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM INSTEAD OF JUST REFERRING THEM, HAVING THE POTENTIAL TO GET LOST, WHICH HAPPENS A LOT WITH THIS POPULATION, THERE WAS A MORE DIRECT KIND OF REFERRAL MADE.
SO THANK YOU FOR THINKING THROUGH HOW TO DO THAT.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS? THIS PROGRAM IS SO IMPORTANT, REALLY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE NOBODY IS THEIR HOME.
UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE EFFORTS.
GETTING THE WORD OUT TO THE COMMUNITY SEEMS LIKE REALLY LOW INCOME FOLKS AND FOLKS OF COLOR ARE HEARING ABOUT IT.
AND APPLYING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE CITY APPLYING, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE, UH, PEOPLE IN THE LATINO COMMUNITY APPLIED, IT MATCHED THEIR, THE PERCENTAGE OF LATINOS IN THE POPULATION, BUT PROBABLY UNDERREPRESENTED THE NUMBER OF, OF LOWER INCOME POPULATION.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT AS WELL AND COMPLIMENT THE HISPANIC MALE.
WE ARE CAREFULLY WATCHING THOSE NUMBERS AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS ARE APPALLING.
AND CERTAINLY THOSE FOLKS WHO WILL BE RECEIVING SOMETHING, UH, AND WE RESPECT YOU THE HISPANIC POPULATION, UH, I DO OUR MARKETING AND MARKETING.
YOU HAVE TO THIS POPULATION OR TO SERVE, UM, AND ALSO THOSE POPULATIONS THAT ARE UNWELCOMED.
I WAS GOING TO SAY MANNY IN DOING THAT WORK, ARE YOU WORKING WITH THE, UH, UH, AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH, WHICH IS DOING CONSIDERABLE OUTREACH RIGHT NOW TO THAT COMMUNITY? MAYBE THERE'S A WAY THAT EVERYONE WHO SHOWS UP FOR A TEST OR FOR A PUBLIC HEALTH SUPPORT RECEIVES INFORMATION ABOUT THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
AND I WILL SAY OVER THE LAST, THIS PAST WEEKEND, WE HAD A ONE ON FLYERS.
IT WAS A PROMENADE MIND, THE EFFORT WITH PUBLIC HEALTH AND WE HAD INTO THE INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTED TO ALL CENTERS ALL SUMMER.
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CLOSELY WITH AUSTIN AND IT JUST FOR SURE, NOT ALWAYS GOOD.ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE HEAD TO OUR LAST ITEM? THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FOR WORKING ON THIS AGAIN.
IF PEOPLE WANT TO APPLY, IS IT AUSTIN, TEXAS.GOV/RIGHT.
OUR EMT AUSTIN, TEXAS.GOV/RENT A REALLY IMPORTANT, YEAH, THEY WILL TAKE YOU TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
[5. Briefing on new online mapping tool that shows how Austin’s affordable housing relates to current and planned public transportation.]
THAT WILL TAKE UP OUR LAST ITEM, WHICH HAS TO DO WITH OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK, UM, AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.THANKS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE FOR HAVING BROUGHT THIS ITEM FORWARD.
ARE WE STARTING OFF WITH A STAFF PRESENTATION? WE ARE.
AND, UH, AS WE HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION AND WE'LL SAY THIS IS MAYBE DEMAND.
UM, AND I HAVE TO JUST SAY, I AM SO EXCITED THAT WE ARE TO THIS PLACE WHERE WE CAN BRING THIS GREAT TOOL TO YOU.
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL UNVEILING.
AND I WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND PRESENTATION, BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING.
UM, I WILL GET A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT.
WE HAD VERY SPECIFIC GOALS AND PRIORITIES AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN, MANY OF WHICH WERE RELATED TO TRANSIT.
SO IN THE STRATEGIC HOUSING HOUSING, WE WANT WITHIN ONE HALF MILE OF AN IMAGINE CENTER ORDER.
IN ADDITION, 90% OF NEW OR PRESERVED HOUSING SHOULD BE WITHIN THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE TRANSIT US.
AND WITHIN THAT, OUR GOAL IS COMING BACK WITHIN ONE QUARTER MILE.
WE'RE VERY EXPLICIT ABOUT OUR GOALS ON PENSIONS AND TRANSIT.
AND IN FACT, AFTER 2017, WE WORK OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OR HOUSING ASSISTANCE, OR WE REWORK THE SCORING CRITERIA SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE STRATEGIC AND THEN A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL, AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PROGRAM, A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS, PRIORITIES, AND STRATEGIES.
ONE OF WHICH IS TO ADDRESS AFFORDABILITY BY LINKING HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION BASKETBALLS.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR ME TO HAVE THAT STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, AND OF COURSE, EMBEDDED WITHIN THAT PLAN IS THIS PRIORITY BACKWARD, WHICH YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN AND
AND SO WE ARE GONNA TO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS WITH HOUSING.
I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT YOUR, YOUR VOICE IS A BIT KIND OF GOES IN AND OUT.
IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO HEAR, SO I'M SORRY.
MAYBE GET CLOSE TO A MICROPHONE.
THIS IS ABOUT, IS THAT BETTER? OKAY.
SO JUST TO GO BACK A LITTLE BIT, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN, WHICH WAS APPROVED, SEE 2019, UM, EXCHANGE PRIORITY NETWORK, WHICH YOU SEE, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK.
AND PLEASE DO THIS THINGS HAVE NATURAL FREQUENCY TRANSIT AS WELL AS PLAN INVESTMENTS THROUGH CONNECTIONS, 2025.
AND THIS IS THE MIND AUSTIN STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE OBSTACLES, WHICH YOU CAN ALL IMAGINE.
AUSTIN'S A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON THE MAP.
I AM GOING TO TURN THIS OVER NOW TO OUR PLANNER, MER SANE TANKER.
WHO'S GONNA WALK THROUGH THIS BRAND NEW TOOL AND
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POWER VISUALIZATION COURSE.UM, CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME ALL RIGHT? YES.
AND THE SCREEN IS UP MANUALLY.
EVERYONE CAN SEE THE MAP SERIES.
I'M A PLANNER IN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, AND I'M GOING TO SHOW OFF SOME OF WHAT MANNY WAS TALKING ABOUT AND BRING THAT DATA TO LIFE AND WALK YOU THROUGH THIS MAP SERIES THAT WE'VE CREATED TO REALLY JUST VISUALIZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS AND TRANSIT BOTH CURRENT AND PROPOSED.
UH, SO ON THIS FIRST MAP, WE'RE JUST SEEING ALL HERE, AND THIS IS BIG PICTURE.
THIS IS LOOKING AT ALL INCOME RESTRICTED AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS IN THE CITY.
THIS IS GOING TO ENCOMPASS BOTH CITY OF AUSTIN SUBSIDIZE AND INCENTIVIZE HOUSING UNITS, AS WELL AS OTHER NON CITY OF AUSTIN ENTITIES THAT ARE IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GAME AS WELL.
UM, HAKA OR HOUSING AUTHORITY OF TRAVIS COUNTY TDH CA AND OTHERS.
UH, SO THE NUMBERS THAT YOU HERE SEE ON THE TOP LEFT IS JUST THE ROLL UP OF THE NUMBER OF UNITS WE HAVE OVER 26,000 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT ARE INCOME RESTRICTED IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
AND THESE ARE, THESE ARE ONLY UNITS THAT ARE ON THE GROUND.
THE PROJECTS HAVE THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY.
THEY ARE EXISTING PROJECTS THAT ARE OPEN TODAY FOR HOUSING.
THERE'S A BIT OF A DESCRIPTION HERE.
THERE ARE VARYING, UM, MFI LEVELS FOR ALL OF THESE PROJECTS.
SO WE DIDN'T GIVE TOO MUCH DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE MFI LEVEL IS IN EACH OF THESE.
UM, BUT YOU CAN READ A LITTLE BIT MORE AND LOOK AT THE MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME CHART AT THAT LINK THERE.
UH, WHAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE RIGHT HERE IS THE PERCENT OF THOSE UNITS, NOT THE DEVELOPMENTS THEMSELVES, THE PERCENT OF UNITS THEMSELVES THAT ARE WITHIN A QUARTER MILE OR A HALF MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT STATION.
SO OVERALL WE HAVE 25%, A QUARTER OF ALL OF THESE 26,000 UNITS ARE WITHIN A QUARTER MILE, BUT PROJECT CONNECT STATION AND ALMOST 60% ARE WITHIN ONE HALF MILE.
AND AS THE KIND OF HEADLINE HERE DESCRIBES THESE MAPS ARE DYNAMIC.
UM, THAT'S WHY I'M HERE SHOWING, UH, THE ACTUAL TOOL ITSELF INSTEAD OF A SET OF SLIDES, BECAUSE THE REAL STRENGTH IS THAT YOU CAN GET DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES BY ZOOMING IN AND OUT OF THIS TOOL.
SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE, UH, THIS IS A LEGEND HERE.
UH, YOU CAN LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE, WHAT IS CURRENTLY EXHIBITED ON THE MAP.
AS MANY, DESCRIBE THESE BLACK LINES ARE SHOWING OUR TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK AS ADOPTED BY THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.
UH, AND THE, THE HEAT MAP UNDERNEATH IS SHOWING NUMBER OF INCOME RESTRICTED, AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS.
SO THIS ISN'T JUST, YOU KNOW, NUMBER OF DOTS ON THE MAP.
THIS IS ACTUAL NUMBER OF UNITS THAT ARE ON THE GROUND THAT ARE GOING TO MAKE IT LIGHT UP.
AND SO YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND OUT AND GET A FEW DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AS WE ZOOM IN.
WE'LL ACTUALLY START TO SEE THAT THE DOTS THEMSELVES THAT REPRESENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS.
AND IF YOU CLICK ON ONE, YOU CAN ALSO GET SOME ADDITIONAL DETAIL ABOUT THAT PROJECT.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, HERE WE HAVE GARDEN TERRACE, PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO, UM, COMPOSE TOGETHER OF ABOUT A HUNDRED AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS.
THESE ARE ON THE GROUND TODAY.
UH, WHEN GARDEN TERRACE YOU'LL SEE IS, IS LOCATED RIGHT HERE ALONG THE LANE CANNON ROAD.
UM, THAT IS A HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSIT ROUTE, UH, ROUTE THREE 33 FOR ANYONE WHO, WHO KNOWS THAT ONE AND, AND GARDEN TERRACE.
SO IT ISN'T DESCRIBED HERE AS A FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES PROJECT, UM, WAS SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY FOR THE CHRONICALLY HOMELESS.
UH, SO AS YOU ZOOM IN, YOU CAN GET MORE INFORMATION AND CLICK ON THOSE PROJECTS TO LEARN A BIT MORE ABOUT THEM.
SO THIS IS THE BIGGEST PICTURE.
THIS IS KIND OF A ROLL UP OF ALL CITY AND NON-CITY HOUSING.
THE NEXT FEW TABS ARE GOING TO BE JUST A SUBSET OF WHAT WE'RE SHOWING ON THIS MAP RIGHT NOW.
SO IF WE GO TO NACD RENTALS, WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE LOOKING AT IN HCD OR CITY OF BOSTON AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING THAT WAS EITHER SUBSIDIZED, SUBSIDIZED, OR INCENTIVIZED BY A CITY OF AUSTIN PROGRAM.
UM, YOU'LL SEE, THIS NUMBER IS OVER 11,000 UNITS, UH, FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND WE KIND OF HAVE A BIT OF A DIFFERENT VISUALIZATION FOR THESE UNITS.
THE DOTS WILL CORRESPOND TO THE SIZE OF THE DOTS WILL CORRESPOND TO THE NUMBER OF UNITS IN THE PROJECTS.
SO THE BIGGER DOTS HERE ARE GOING TO HAVE MUCH HIGHER UNIT NUMBERS WHERE SOME OF THESE SMALLER DOTS MIGHT BE, UM, SMALLER, SMALLER PROJECTS.
THE MAJORITY OF THESE, UH, RENTAL HOUSING UNITS ARE, UH, ELIGIBLE OR, OR, UH, INCOME RESTRICTED FOR, UH, HOUSEHOLDS MAKING 60% OR LESS OF THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME.
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UM, AND THAT TRANSLATES TO ABOUT $58,000 FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR IN 2020.AND AS WITH BEFORE, THIS WILL BE A SIMILAR LAYOUT TO THE REST OF THE TABS ROUTINE AND OVERALL COUNT HERE.
AND THEN WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THESE UNITS ARE WITHIN A CERTAIN PROXIMITY TO A PROJECT CONNECT STATION.
AND AS WITH BEFORE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE THE LINK TO THIS, UM, MAP SERIES.
YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND OUT AND LEARN A BIT MORE ABOUT SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.
AND WITH MOST OF THESE MAPS, YOU'LL ALSO GET, UH, SOME DIFFERENT BUFFERS THAT SHOW UP AROUND THESE PROJECT CONNECT STATIONS, UH, JUST SO THAT YOU CAN EASIER A LITTLE MORE EASILY REFERENCED THE PROXIMITY TO A TRANSIT STATION, UM, THAT IS REPRESENTED IN THESE, UH, CHARTS HERE.
SO THE DARKER GRAY IS SHOWING ONE QUARTER MILE TO A PROJECT CONNECT STATION, AND THEN THE LIGHTER GRAY AREA IS GOING TO BE, UM, A HALF MILE.
AND IF YOU CLICK ON A PROJECT, YOU CAN ALSO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS VILLAS ON SIX, UH, PRIVATE DEVELOPER, BUT IT'S A PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR AWESOME HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION AND HAS ABOUT 136 UNITS.
AS I MENTIONED, THESE NEXT FEW MAPS ARE REALLY JUST SUBSETS.
SO NACD RENTALS, AS WELL AS OWNERSHIP, AND NON-CITY ALL ROLLED UP TO THAT FIRST MAP THAT WE LOOKED AT.
UM, BUT THESE ARE BREAKING THEM OUT A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICALLY.
AND SO WE LOOKED AT RENTAL, WE'RE GOING TO NOW SHOW OWNERSHIP UNITS THAT OUR CITY OF AUSTIN SUBSIDIZED OR INCENTIVIZED ONLY, UH, SO MUCH SMALLER NUMBER.
UM, BUT MANY OF THESE ARE COMING THROUGH OUR OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, OR, UH, COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS OR, OR, OR THE LIKE, UM, THE MAJORITY OF THESE ABOUT 80% OF IT.
THESE TWO 40 ARE SUBSIDIZED BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND NOT, NOT REALLY AS MUCH COMING TO OUR DEVELOPER INCENTIVE PROGRAMS. UM, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, 65% ARE WITHIN HALF A MILE UP A PROJECT NEXT STATION, ANY EXCITING.
AND FINALLY, THE LAST MAP THAT WAS, UM, JUST A SUBSET OF WHAT WE SHOWED IN THE FIRST MAP IS EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT FUNDED OR INCENTIVIZED BY CITY OF AUSTIN PROGRAMS. SO THIS CAN ACTUALLY INCLUDE A VARIETY OF, UM, DIFFERENT HOUSING, UH, CORPORATIONS OR HOUSING DEVELOPERS, UM, NOTABLY HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY OF TRUST COUNTY AND TDH CA WE ALSO MIGHT SEE LYTEC PROJECTS, UH, ON THIS MAP THAT AREN'T RECEIVING ANY CITY OF AUSTIN FUNDING.
UM, AND SO THIS ROLLS UP TO ABOUT 15,000 INCOME RESTRICTED, UH, AFFORDABLE UNITS WITHIN THE CITY.
UM, UH, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF THESE ARE ALL MAKING? THESE ARE ALL RESERVED FOR FAMILIES MAKING 60% OF THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME, BUT MANY OF THEM ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE MAKING 30% OR LESS.
UM, AND THERE'S A BIT OF A DESCRIPTION HERE THAT YOU CAN READ THE NUMBERS OF HOW MANY OF THESE UNITS ARE FROM SOME OF THOSE VARIOUS ENTITIES THAT WE DISCUSSED.
BUT AGAIN, NEARLY 60%, UH, ARE THE, OF THOSE UNITS ARE WITHIN HALF A MILE UPPER PROJECT NEXT STATION.
AND SAME AS BEFORE, IF YOU ZOOM IN, YOU CAN GET A BIT OF ADDITIONAL DETAIL.
YOU CAN CLICK ON PROJECTS, UM, AND LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT PROJECT IS AND WHERE IT'S LOCATED.
FINALLY, WE'LL GO TO, OR NOT FINALLY, THERE'S SEVERAL I'M HERE, I'M IN DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO BE SHOWING A FUTURE LOOK AT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO THESE ARE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT ARE GOING TO BE EXCLUSIVELY COMING TO A CITY OF AUSTIN PROGRAM, WHETHER WITH A CITY SUBSIDY OR INCENTIVIZED BY ONE OF OUR DEVELOPER INCENTIVE PROGRAMS. UM, AND THESE ARE NOT YET, UM, COMPLETELY BUILT OUT THESE AREN'T, THESE HAVE NOT RECEIVED THEIR CEO, BUT THEY COULD BE ANYWHERE IN PRE OR IN DEVELOPMENT STAGES, PRE DEVELOPMENT, MEANING, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OR THEIR CERTIFICATE OF CLIENT.
THEY'VE BEEN CERTIFIED BY A NACD INCLUDE THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS.
UM, BUT THEY MAY NOT HAVE BROKEN GROUND YET.
AND SOME OF THESE COULD HAVE THEIR BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED AND BE IN DEVELOPMENT AS WE SPEAK.
UM, BUT AREN'T, UH, IN THE PROJECT COMPLETE STAGE.
SO THESE ARE OUR KIND OF FUTURE LOOKING, UM, WHERE WILL AFFORDABLE HOUSING BE IN THE NEXT, UM, YOU KNOW, FEW YEARS WE HAVE OVER 11,000 UNITS IN OUR DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE AND, UH, 55% OF THEM ARE WITHIN HALF A MILE OVER PROJECT CONNECT STATION.
AND THIS THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON.
THIS MAP HAS A LOT OF INFORMATION IN IT, BUT THE COLORS OF GREEN ACTUALLY CORRESPOND TO THE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT IT'S IN.
SO THE REALLY LIGHT GREEN, ALMOST WHITE IS PRE-DEVELOPMENT.
SO THEY'RE IN THE EARLIEST STAGES.
UM, AND THEN THE DARKER GREEN BEING, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BROKEN GROUND, THEY HAVE A BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED, UM, AND ARE A LOT CLOSER TO COMING ONLINE.
AND THEN THE SIZE OF THAT DOT WILL CORRESPOND TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT WE ARE EXPECTING FROM THAT PROJECT.
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UM, AND SAME AS BEFORE WE CAN ZOOM IN AND OUT AND GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EACH OF THESE, UM, PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AFFORDABLE UNITS THAT IT MAY INCLUDE AS WELL AS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT, IS IT FUNDED? IS IT GETTING THE CITY OF BOSTON SUBSIDY, WHICH WILL MEAN IT'S AN NACD PROGRAM, OR IS IT FROM A DEVELOPER INCENTIVE PROGRAM? NEXT I'LL GO TO OUR CITY ASSETS TAB, WHICH IS GOING TO BE SHOWING CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, LAND, BASICALLY LAND THAT WE OWN THAT IS EITHER READY TO BE USED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, OR COULD BE USED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE FUTURE.WE'VE BROKEN THIS INTO TWO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES HERE.
WE'RE LOOKING AT LAND THAT IS HELD BY THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION.
THOSE ARE DISPLAYED HERE WITH THE BLACK STAR.
UM, YOU'LL SEE RECENTLY IMPROVED KRAMER LANE PROJECTS.
AND AS YOU CLICK ON THEM IN THIS LIST HERE, IT'LL ZOOM IN.
YOU CAN GET A BIT A CLOSER VIEW OF THOSE PIECES OF LAND.
UM, AND SAME AS BEFORE YOU CAN GET A BIT OF INFORMATION BY CLICKING ON THEM.
UM, YOU'LL SEE THE ADDRESS HERE AND YOU'LL KNOW THAT THIS IS HFC LAND, UM, THE CITY ASSETS FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SOME OF THEM YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE SITES LIKE ST.
JOHN'S, UM, OLD HOME DEPOT SITE IS LISTED HERE.
UM, IT IS, YOU KNOW, PROPOSED TO INCLUDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT IT'S VERY EARLY STAGES.
AND SO THAT'S LISTED HERE AND ALL TOGETHER IN THIS TAB.
I THINK WE HAVE ABOUT 12 SITES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED, UM, ALTOGETHER NINE BEING, UH, NINE LOTS HELD BY THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION THAT WILL BE, UH, INCLUDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE FUTURE.
WE'LL GO TO THE EXPIRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY TAB.
AND THIS IS A TAB THAT DOES KIND OF BRING THE TIMELINE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO LIGHT.
UM, MANY OF OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS HAVE, UH, AN AGREED UPON PERIOD OF AFFORDABILITY IN WHICH THEY WILL MAINTAIN THAT INCOME RESTRICTION.
UM, AND IT VARIES GREATLY OF WHAT THAT AFFORDABILITY PERIOD MIGHT BE.
AND SO ON THIS MAP, WE'RE LOOKING AT HOUSING, UH, THAT IS TODAY ON THE GROUND, UM, INCOME RESTRICTED, BUT IT'S AFFORDABILITY PERIOD WILL BE EXPIRING WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
SO BETWEEN BASICALLY AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER 20 20TH THROUGH YEAR 2025, THESE UNITS, UM, HAVE AN AFFORDABILITY PERIOD EXPIRING.
UH, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, 4,600 UNITS THAT FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND NEARLY HALF OF THEM, 47% ARE WITHIN A HALF MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT STATION.
AND THE FINAL TAB THAT I WILL SHOW TO YOU ALL TODAY IS OUR DISPLACEMENT RISK AREAS.
SO WE JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU EXACTLY THE, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS MADE BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN THAT FALL WITHIN THE UT UPROOTED, UM, NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO DISPLACEMENT THROUGH GENTRIFICATION.
UM, THESE AREAS, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH UT REPORT, WE'VE, WE'VE SUMMARIZED WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SUSCEPTIBLE EARLY, TYPE ONE DYNAMIC AND THE LIKE, UM, AND, AND THAT'S BROKEN OUT HERE AS WELL.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'RE JUST SHOWING AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT FALL WITHIN THOSE AREAS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE 2018 UT UPROOTED REPORT.
UM, AND THAT, THAT EQUALS ABOUT 13,000 UNITS.
UM, THAT IS A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS THAT FALL WITHIN THESE AREAS.
AND THEN YOU'LL SEE JUST A BIT MORE SPECIFICITY OF WHERE THOSE UNITS ARE, UM, IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE STAGES OF, UM, DISPLACEMENT HOME OR ABILITY.
SO THE MAJORITY OUT OF THESE ARE THE HIGHEST NUMBER ARE WITHIN SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS.
THESE ARE IN THE EARLIER STAGES OF GENTRIFICATION, UM, BUT WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION, UH, OVER 30% IN THE DYNAMIC AREAS AS WELL.
AND SAME AS BEFORE YOU CAN GET A BIT MORE DETAILED JUST THROUGH THE, UM, THE MAP AND CLICKING AROUND ON THE UNITS AND WHAT WE'RE SHOWING ALONGSIDE THE UNITS HERE IS OUR TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK OF WHICH AS WE NOTED, PROJECT CONNECT IS A SUBSET.
AND THOSE ARE ALL OF THE MAPS I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.
UM, I'M SURE THERE MAY BE SOME QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION THEN, AND HOPEFULLY BETWEEN MANDY AND MYSELF AND THE TEAM, WE CAN, I CAN GET THOSE ANSWERS.
WE ARE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, ALL OF THIS INFORMATION.
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THANK YOU.THANK YOU TO THE STAFF AND THANK YOU, SAM, FOR THIS, I'VE COMMITTED TO FOLKS THAT WE WILL GET OUT OF HERE ON TIME BY NOON.
SO WE'LL TRY TO KEEP IT QUESTIONS SHORT.
I THINK THE FIRST THING THOUGH, IS IS THIS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE YET, OR IS IT GOING TO BE ONLINE SHORTLY? THE LINK THAT IS INCLUDED IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
THE LINKEDIN IS AVAILABLE AND BACKUP IS PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE.
SO ANYONE CAN CLICK THAT LINK AND EXPLORE THIS.
AND I'M NOT SURE YET IF THIS WILL GO UP ON OUR WEBSITE, BUT IT CERTAINLY COULD, IT WILL GO UP ON THE WEBSITE AND IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
WE'RE GOING TO BE UPDATING THE INFORMATION AS EQUAL FOR FEEDBACK CHANGES, ATTRACTIONS.
YES, IT WILL BE RACER FOR THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SHE WANTS TO CLICK AROUND AND ASK HER QUESTIONS.
UM, YOU HAVE THE LINCOLN BACKUP.
I'LL START WITH YOU COUNSEL THE KITCHEN.
WELL, I, I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS.
I MEAN, THIS IS JUST INCREDIBLE.
SO, UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
UM, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UM, SO, UM, DOES IT INDICATE, UM, I WAS LOOKING AT CITY, DOES WHICH ONE OF THESE TABS WOULD INDICATE A PLANNED ACQUISITIONS? NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT YOU CAN'T BROADCAST WELL, ALL OF THEM, BUT AT SOME LEVEL THERE IS THAT THE, IS THAT THE CITY ASSETS ONE, UM, THAT WILL NOW PUMPKIN NUMBER, JUST TO BE CLEAR UNDER CITY ASSETS.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE H S C ACQUISITIONS, WE'VE MADE 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ONLY THINGS THAT HAVE EITHER COME TO CITY COUNCIL, OR WE HAVE COME TO AUSTIN COUNCIL FINANCE CORPORATION THAT WE HAVE A CONTRACT FOR.
WE HAVE MANY OTHER, UM, PROPERTIES IN THE WORKS THAT WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO BRING TO YOU.
SO THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE SAID, AND JUST EXPLAIN FOR US, UM, CAN'T UNDERSTAND, BUT EXPLAIN FOR THE PUBLIC WHAT STAGE THEY HAVE TO BE IN BEFORE YOU CAN PUBLIC.
WE NEED TO EITHER HAVE A CONTRACT TO AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION.
AND SO JUST AS A REMINDER OF THE LAST PROPERTIES, TWO PROPERTIES THAT WE BROUGHT TO AP FC FOR GOOGLE, UM, WORTHY 1108 AND 1114 FRAMEWORK, WHICH IS IN DISTRICT FOUR.
AND WHICH SAM DRILL DOWN ONTO THE INTERSECTIONAL KRAMER LAMAR PROJECT TAXATION.
CAN YOU SAY JUST BRIEFLY WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE FOR THE ADDITIONAL INVESTMENTS THAT YOU ALL ARE LOOKING AT USING THE BOND DOLLARS? SURE.
UM, I'LL START WITH THE STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT.
UM, AND SO WE ARE LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES IN HIGH OPPORTUNITY, WHICH DON'T NECESSARILY PRIORITY NETWORK.
SOMETIMES THEY DO, UM, ACQUISITION RIGHT HERE ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO BE IN A HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREA IN DISTRICT FOUR.
UM, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A COMBINATION AND THEN AGAIN IN ALIGNMENT WITH 25% OF ALL
ONE LAST QUESTION THEN, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE REMAPPING SHOWING THE PROJECT CONNECT THE STATIONS.
NOW I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE USING ESTIMATED INFORMATION FROM KENT METRO FOR THAT, RIGHT? CAUSE TO SOME DEGREE, SOME OF THE STATES EXACTLY
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LOCATED THEY HAVE AN ESTIMATE IS CORRECT.AGAIN, AS THIS MAP IS, UM, THIS MAP SERIES, THIS TOOL WILL BE UPDATED AS WE GO.
I JUST WANT TO ADD AS WELL, THIS IS A REAL EXCITING TO SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE, AS WE, UM, INCREASE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS IN THE CITY, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S THE, THE, THE RISK OR THE CHALLENGE OF, UH, UH, UH, GENTRIFICATION AND DISLOCATION AND TO BE ABLE TO AFFIRMATIVELY BE FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THAT.
I IS EXCITING TO SEE, AND WE'VE SPED SO FOCUSED ON THE $300 MILLION BEEN ADDED TO PROJECT CONNECT, UM, WHICH IS A HUGE INVESTMENT.
IT'S REAL IMPORTANT TO NOTE, AS YOU'RE SHOWING US HERE, HOW MUCH IS ALREADY BEING DONE, UH, IN THAT REGARD.
AND BECAUSE PROJECT CONNECT FOLLOWED THE, THE ROUTES OF THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN, UH, IT'S ALREADY SET UP TO, TO, TO, TO DO THIS.
SO THE WORK THAT YOU'VE ALREADY DONE WITH RESPECT TO THE, THE, THE, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF, OF, OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE FOR THIS HOUSING OVER 26,000 AND KNOWING THAT, UH, UH, 58% OF THOSE I PLACED WITHIN 60, 58% WITHIN A HALF A MILE OF PROJECT CONNECT, HOW, AND THAT GETS BUILT OUT, UH, IS REAL EXCITING TO SEE THAT THE OVER 11,000 THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW, 55%, UM, UH, ARE WITHIN, UH, A HALF MILE.
AND THAT'S EVEN, THAT'S JUST USING THE MONEY FROM THE 2016 BOND AND THE 2018 ON THE, THE DOT AND THE PROPERTIES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN PURCHASED.
UH, THE LAND THAT'S BEEN PURCHASED, IS THERE STILL SOME OF THE 2018 BOND MONEY THAT'S STILL AVAILABLE TO, TO KEEP INVESTING ON PROPERTIES THAT WILL BE NEAR THE PROJECT CONNECT STATIONS? ABSOLUTELY.
OUR, OUR 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND, THE CONTRACT WITH THE VOTERS INCLUDED $900 MILLION FOR LAND ACQUISITION OF THAT AMOUNT.
WE HAVE SPENT
WE HAVE UP TO $30 MILLION COMMITTED.
UM, AND REMEMBER OUR, UH, LAND ACQUISITION, UH, ACQUISITION, UM, PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES, UM, ACQUISITION, HOTELS, MOTELS FOR THE HOTEL FOR WORKING STRATEGY.
UM, AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE BALANCING ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT ACTIVATIONS, BUT WE DO HAVE A LITTLE FIVE YEAR PLAN.
UM, WE ARE SPENDING THE MONEY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE STRATEGIC HOUSING GROUP, CERTAINLY IN ALIGNMENT.
AND SINCE THE VOTERS HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN YET ON PROJECT CONNECT, NONE OF THIS INCLUDES ANY OF THAT $300 MILLION OR THE $180 THAT COMES UP, COMES UP EARLY.
SO IT'S EXCITING TO SEE HOW MUCH HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, UH, CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE, WHAT THE COUNCIL AND ITS CONTRACT WITH VOTERS SAID WOULD BE DONE WITH A PROJECT CONNECT ALREADY SEE IT HAPPENING.
AND THEN THE THING THAT I THINK THIS DOES POINT OUT TOO, IS THE NUMBER OF EXISTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT ARE GONNA ROLL OFF, UH, BECAUSE WHAT ARE THEY, 4% GRAD PROGRAMS WHERE THE, LIKE, WHICH ONLY HAS AFFORDABILITY FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME? UM, I, I NOTICED TOO THAT, THAT OF THOSE NUMBER OF UNITS, 47%, ALMOST HALF OF THEM ARE ALSO WITHIN A HALF MILE, THE WALK SHED OF WHAT PROJECT CONNECT IS.
UH, DO WE HAVE A S UH, STRATEGY? WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT IS THAT WE MAINTAIN AT LEAST THAT 50%, UH, ON, UH, ON, IN, IN, IN AFFORDABILITY SO THAT THEY DON'T ROLL OFF OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE HOUSING STOCK TO, TO, TO MAINTAIN.
AND THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST STEP IN OUR PRESERVATION STRATEGY, IDENTIFYING, LOCATING, DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE PROJECTS WITH EXPIRING AFFORDABLE, NOT EVERY ONE OF US AT ONE OF THESE PROPERTIES,
SOME PROPERTIES MAYBE HAVE FORMALIZED LYTEC PROGRAM.
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GOAL AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION IS TO IDENTIFY THESE PROPERTIES ALL THE WAY UP AND TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AS PART OF OUR INVESTMENT STRATEGY TO EFFECT THE EXPANSION OF PEOPLE.WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PRESERVATION IN OUR PRESERVATION STRATEGY IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING WHERE WE CAN POTENTIALLY PULL A LEVER TO EXTEND AFFORDABLE PROPERTY FOR, WELL, IF YOU NEED ANYTHING, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU BRING IT BACK TO THIS COMMITTEE OR TO THE FULL COUNCIL SO THAT WE CAN GIVE WHATEVER AUTHORITY OR TOOLS THAT YOU MIGHT USE THAT WE DON'T HAVE NOW IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THAT.
SO THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK, AND THEN THE QUESTIONS, A COUNCIL MEMBER.
THIS IS REALLY, REALLY EXCITING AND VERY INTERESTING TO GET TO PLAY WITH IT.
THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION TO DIGEST.
UM, DO YOU HAVE A SPOT FOR FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS SO THAT IF THERE'S ANY MORE INFORMATION THAT COULD BE HELPFUL, UM, FOR ANY OF US TO BE ABLE TO GET THOSE ANSWERS? I KNOW I SEE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE IT MAY WELL NOT HAVE AFFORDABILITY SOON, BUT, UM, KNOWING, KNOWING THE TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION THAT IT IS AND THE PROGRAM AND IT'S INVOLVED IN, IT MAY DECIDE TO VOLUNTARILY STAY IN AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO IS THERE A GOOD LOCATION FOR US TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT? SO, SAM, I DON'T, THERE IS A MECHANISM WITHIN THE TOOL TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK UNLESS I'M MISTAKEN.
SO THE BEST WAY WOULD BE TO REACH OUT TO HOPEFULLY SOMEBODY WITHIN OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
UM, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY DIG DOWN, THAT'D BE HELPFUL.
AND I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION ON HERE AND A LOT OF GOOD PARTNERSHIPS THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO LOOKING THROUGH THIS TOOL A LITTLE MORE AND UNDERSTANDING THESE PROJECTS A LITTLE BETTER, PASS THE MIC BACK OVER TO YOU COUNSEL, EVER KITCHEN.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COUPLE OF HIGH LEVEL OBSERVATIONS, UM, IN LINE WITH WHAT THE MAYOR SAID.
UM, THIS IS REALLY POWERFUL INFORMATION, I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL TODAY THAT, UM, ABOUT 60% OF OUR CITY'S, UH, LOW INCOME HOUSING IS, UM, UH, WALKABLE TO THE PROJECT CONNECT STATIONS.
UM, AND, AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THEM THERE AND TO ADD TO THE STOCK.
I ALSO DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL NOW THAT IT SEEMS LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE JUST OVER 11,000, UH, UH, LOW INCOME HOUSING UNITS THAT ARE CITY SUPPORTED AND THAT ARE IN DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE HAS ALSO JUST OVER 11,000 UNITS THAT WE WOULD BE ON TRACK TO, TO DOUBLING THE AMOUNT OF, OF LOW INCOME HOUSING, UH, THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY RELATIVE TO THE AMOUNT THAT THE CITY CURRENTLY SUPPORTS.
EXCEPT OF COURSE WE KNOW WHERE THAT WE'RE ALSO LOSING, UM, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND SO AGAIN, I THINK THAT THAT'S PART OF WHY, UM, AS PART OF THE, OF THE PROPOSITION ON THE BALLOT, WE'VE INCLUDED THE $300 MILLION FOR ANTI-DISPLACEMENT WORK.
UH, AGAIN, MY HOPE IS THAT WE DO ACTUALLY DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE CITY PROVIDES HERE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
AND THAT WOULD BE A HUGE FEAT TO DOUBLE WHAT WE'VE DONE IN OUR WHOLE HISTORY.
UM, UH, HERE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS WOULD BE IT, I THINK WE WOULD ACTUALLY START ADDRESSING THE NEED WE SEE IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THIS AND, UH, AND DO GET THE LINK UP AND LET EVERYBODY KNOW WHERE IT IS ONCE IT, ONCE IT'S AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE SO THAT, UH, UH, EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY CAN, CAN LOOK AT THIS IT'S REALLY USEFUL INFORMATION, COME TO NUMBER KITCHEN.
DID YOU STILL HAVE A QUESTION OVER TO YOU? UH, YES.
AS EVERYONE HAS SAID, THIS IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL AND USEFUL INFORMATION IN A FORMAT THAT'S EASY TO USE.
SO I REALLY, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE THIS, YOU KNOW, AS, AS OTHERS SAID, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT HAS BEEN RAISED, UH, RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS, UH, THAT WAS SPOKEN TO IN THE ASN, UH, CHAPTER SIX, I THINK IT IS, WAS THE NEED TO GET OUT THERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE, YOU KNOW, AHEAD OF TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS.
SO, UM, WHAT THIS, WHAT THIS SHOWS ME IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT.
UM, AND WHICH IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND, UH, PARTICULARLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PROJECT,
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WE'RE NOT STARTING WITH THE 300 MILLION AND WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT STARTING.UM, AFTER THAT PROGRAM, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE TRANSPORTATION LINES ARE IN PLACE, YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY BEEN STARTING IN THE CITY AS A WHOLE HAS BEEN AS, UM, INDICATED AS A COMMITMENT NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, THE COMMITMENT TO, UM, TO ALIGNING HOUSING WITH TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AND WE'VE SEEN THAT IN OUR S AND P WE'VE SEEN IT IN ALL THE POLICIES THAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN PROCEEDING WITH.
WE'VE SEEN IT IN THE BLUEPRINT AND THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE BLUEPRINT.
SO ALL OF THAT SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT WE'VE, FOR SOME TIME WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO GET AHEAD OF THE MARKET IN TERMS OF, UM, INCREASES IN, UM, IN PRICING OF HOUSING, ALONG TRANSPORTATION LINES.
SO I THINK THAT THIS JUST ILLUSTRATES FOR US, UM, THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE IN DOING SO.
SO, UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND, UM, AND I'D LIKE TO FOLLOW UP AND GET INFORMATION FROM YOU, UH, IN TERMS OF THE VALUE OF THESE INVESTMENTS TODAY.
UM, IF THERE'S A ROUGH IDEA OF THE VALUE OF A MINUTE, IT GOES SO MUCH BEYOND THE A HUNDRED BILLION GOES BEYOND THE 300 MILLION THAT WERE PROPOSED FOR PROJECT CONNECT BECAUSE OF ALL THE OTHER, THE, ALL THE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES ARE BEING BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THAT ARE BEING LEVERAGED HERE.
SO TO THE EXTENT THAT THAT KIND OF INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE, THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO NOTE.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU CHAIR FOR PUTTING THIS ON THE AGENDA.
IT'S, IT'S VERY EXCITING AND HELPFUL, VERY EASY TO USE INFORMATION.
YES, THIS IS A REALLY GREAT, I, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ON THE ALGEBRA, UH, THE EXPERIMENT EXPIRING AFFORDABILITY TAB, UH, THERE'S SOME YELLOW DOTS THERE.
IT'S THAT? WHAT ARE YOURS? WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SEEING THAT, UH, THAT IT'S EXPIRING, YOU KNOW WHAT? I JUST DIDN'T.
SO THE YELLOW DOTS REPRESENT I'M WAITING FOR IT TO LOAD.
THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT HAVE EXPIRING AFFORDABILITY IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
CAN YOU GO DOWN UNTIL ONE OF THEM? UM, MAYBE HOW THE RIVERSIDE I'LL JUST KNOW IT'S IN THE SKIP TWO HOUSES TERROR THEY'RE ON OFF 11TH STREET ON CALL MAU, GO CLEAR YELLOW DOT SIERRA.
THOSE WE'RE GOING TO BE LOSING.
COUNCIL MEMBER WRENCH, MARIA ARE TECHNICALLY EXPIRING FOR THAT PROGRAM, BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY OWNED BY AUSTIN HEALTH AND FINANCE CORPORATION.
AND THERE IS NO INTENTION TO EVER, EVER, EVER MOVE THAT AFFORDABLE.
THAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF A PROPERTY WHERE WE DO THE DRILL DOWN AND WE SAY, OH, THAT'S A HOLE WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT.
WE KNOW THAT THAT'S WITHIN OUR MISSION.
AND WE, UH, WE IN FACT DETERMINE THE DESTINY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE CLOSE OUT HERE, COMPLIMENT THIS IS MANDY DE MAYO.
ALL I WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU TO SAM TEMPERED AND STEIN WHO ARE ON OUR STAFF, AND THEY'RE THE MAGIC BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
THIS IS NOW A REALITY TO FEEDBACK, AND AGAIN, THIS WILL GROW AND CHANGE, AND IT DOES REALLY SEEM LIKE THE COUNCIL IS UNIFIED IN THE SAME DIRECTION ON THIS.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF LOW INCOME HOUSING IN THE CITY.
UH, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE'RE LOSING UNITS AS WELL.
WE KNOW THAT A MAJORITY, WE PLAN THE PROJECT CONNECT LINES TO WHERE YOU HAVE A MAJORITY OF LOW INCOME HOUSING IN THE CITY ACCESSIBLE TO ALIGN.
AND WE ALSO WANT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
UH, AND SO, SO THANK YOU TO, I THINK IT'S REALLY HELPFUL TO BE ABLE TO SEE HOW THAT IS HAPPENING AND KEEP TRACK OF WHETHER WE'RE REACHING THE GOAL OR NOT.
SO THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY, UNLESS THERE'S ANY OBJECTION I CAN, UH, UH, CLOSE OUT THE MEETING HERE AT 11:58 AM OF TODAY'S HOUSING AND PLANNING COMMITTEE.
SO WITHOUT OBJECTION, WE'LL DO SO.
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THANKS TO THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AND OUR GUESTS FOR JOINING US TODAY.