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Webinar: What Is "Affordable" Housing and How Do We Get It?
What Is "Affordable" Housing and How Do We Get It?
Webinar by The League of Woman Voters• Describe the most important financial programs, including Section 8 and tax credit financing, that support the development of affordable housing and explain what they mean by “affordable.” How are they working in SLO County?
Moderator:
Shelley Higginbotham: Board Chair, People's Self Help Housing
Panelists:- Scott Collins, Executive Director, Housing Authority SLO
- Teresa McClish, Housing Policy & Programs Manager, City of SLO
- Stephen Peck, President, Peck Consulting
- James Worthley, Planning Director, SLOCOG
Everyone knows that the housing market in SLO County is not producing enough housing that is affordable to households with low to medium incomes. Existing public and private agencies address this well-known problem through planning and financing programs that target affordable housing development, but we still fall short. How do these programs and efforts work? What are their constraints? How can we fix them? This webinar will:
• Show how city and county planning facilitates the development of affordable housing. Every California jurisdiction has a Housing Element in its General Plan that incorporates a Regional Housing Needs Allocation to plan for housing development affordable at all income levels. Are jurisdictions meeting their housing allocation goals?
• Show how the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process determines how many units of housing goals — including housing affordable to low income households — is allocated to communities.
• Learn how the state mandated Housing Element incorporates RHNA housing development goals and how that is implemented.
• Private developers are asked to include housing affordable to low and moderate income households all the time. State laws even incentivize it. But it’s still hard to do: the fact of the housing market is that lower income units are very difficult to build without subsidy. Are there better ways to encourage the development of affordable housing?
Webinar: What Is "Affordable" Housing...Date and Time
Monday Jun 5, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDTMonday, June 5, 12-1pm
Location
Where: Online via Zoom | Registration required
Register HEREFees/Admission
Free
