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From YouTube: USCM Community Development and Housing Commission
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Mayor Marty Walsh chairs the Community Development and Housing Commission at the 2018 US Conference of Mayors in Boston.
A
A
Good
morning,
everybody
I
hope
you
enjoyed
last
night.
If
you
went
to
the
candy
library
and
good
food.
We're
gonna
have
some
good
food
tonight
too.
So
thank
you
for
coming
into
Boston
Marty
Walsh,
the
mayor
of
Boston,
the
chair
of
the
Housing
Committee
I,
have
two
co-chairs
and
I
think
they're
still
sleeping
maril,
orsa
Marilyn's
had
a
long
commute
this
morning
from
the
room
of
CSO.
He's
he'll
be
on
his
way
and
made
a
Giles
as
he
should
be
hey
this.
You
both
be
here
so
so
I
want
to
thank
him.
A
Do
you
commit
yeah?
So
all
right
so
he's
fallen
this
morning,
but
I
took
callers
meeting
to
order.
Thank
everyone
for
coming
this
morning
before
I
get
started
want
to
just
let
you
know
how
proud
I
am
of
chairing
this
committee
here
in
Boston,
we've
focused
on
building
more
housing
or
my
first
term
as
mayor
in
my
second
term.
Now
we're
population
is
at
a
50
or
high
we've.
We
launched
a
housing
plan
in
October
of
2014
to
create
53,000
units
in
new
housing
by
the
year
2030.
A
We
have
52,000
those
units
26,000
in
the
permitting
pipeline
right
now,
19,000
built
7,000
under
construction.
So
if
everything
goes
as
planned
by
the
end
of
my
second
term,
we
will
have
probably
created
53
thousand
units
of
new
housing
in
eight
years
in
Boston.
So
you
can
see
the
demand
of
population
what's
happening.
It's
just
growth
here,
but
we're
looking
now
at
really
moderate,
low-income
housing.
A
And
how
do
we
build
more
of
that,
as
as
many
of
you
are
facing
people
being
pushed
out
of
the
cities,
because
people
are
being
pushed
into
the
cities
and
we're
losing
poor
people
so
we're
working
to
try
and
do
some
creative
things
by
using
different
tools
that
we
have
different
resources
or
inclusionary
development.
Linkage
from
the
bigger
developments
we're
using,
we
raised
the
inclusionary
development,
the
off-site
affordability
that
people
were
having
from
13
to
18
percent.
A
We
passed
the
Community
Preservation
Act
here
in
Boston,
which
is
an
act
that
it
gets
matching
it's
a
1
percent
surcharge
on
people's
homeowners
taxes
and
we
were
able
to
put
that
money.
It's
a
historic
preservation,
open
space
and
housing.
So
what
we're
doing
trying
to
be
creative
here,
it's
not,
as
you
all
know,
we're
all
trying
to
be
creative.
We're
also
trying
to
make
sure
that
we
we
deal
with
veterans
and
have
veterans
housing.
We
ended
chronic
veterans
homelessness,
as
many
of
you
did
in
2015.
A
So
our
veterans
right
now,
if
they
need
a
place
to
live
in
their
homeless,
they
can
get
into
a
housing
or
work
going
in
and
chronic
homelessness
and
we're
working
on
a
whole
host
of
different
issues.
So
it's
nothing
that
people
at
this
table
haven't
done,
but
those
of
you
that
might
be
new.
We
just
want
to
say
you
know
if
you
need
help
with
something
come
to
see
either
myself,
the
coaches
or
anyone
at
this
table
to
help
you
with
with
being
mayor,
we
should
go
on.
B
A
You
and
I'm
just
just
want
one
thing:
we,
they
change
the
format
a
little
bit
of
the
committee's
that
we're
not
gonna
do
too
much
talking
here.
We're
not
and
I
just
want
to
say.
One
thing
that
we
are
gonna
be
responsible
for
this
committee
is
to
make
sure
that
we
continue
to
push
the
federal
government
against
federal
cuts.
There's
a
lot
of
money
that
comes
down
to
our
cities,
from
CD
GB,
Monday
money
and
also
HUD
money
that
goes
into
housing
development.
A
So
we
will
be
very
aggressive
in
keeping
an
eye
on
the
federal
government
when
it
comes
to
those
those
pots
of
money,
because
every
single
one
of
our
cities
depend
upon
them
for
a
whole
host
of
different
reasons.
So
we
will
make
sure
that
if
we
move
forward
here,
anything
that
can
be
done
would
be
helpful
on
that
now
just
to
go
into
a
regular
order
of
business.
My
first
technical
order,
business
here
is
consideration
of
the
resolutions.
A
Anybody
who
has
a
new
resolution
will
be
considered
after
considering
the
proposed
resolutions
as
a
packet
in
front
of
you
at
that
time
will
ask
members
to
identify
any
new
resolutions
that
will
be
presented.
So
if
you
have
resolutions
you
want
to
present
we'll
do
it
at
that
time
and
right
now,
what
I
do
I
have
a
lit.
There's
a
route
list
of
resolutions
in
front
of
you.
I
have
one
two,
three,
four
five,
six
of
them.
If
you
want
me
to
read
them
off
any
question.
B
A
A
Has
any
topics
that
the
bar?
We
got
a
couple
seconds
anything
you
anybody
anything
that
interests!
You
were
your
city
that
you
want
to
talk
about
for
the
next
meeting.
You
know
we
can
work
on,
like
the
we
have
a
bunch
of
great
people
here
from
the
conference
that
staff
this
committee
and
I
also
have
in
the
city
of
Boston.
We
have
an
incredible
chief
of
housing,
Shield
Dylan
who's
here,
who
does
some
incredible
work
as
well?
So
is
anything
that
you
want
to
talk
about?
Maybe
next
meeting
or
challenges
you
might
have.
G
So
we
passed
a
resin
last
November,
it's
one
percent
surcharge
on
both
commercial
and
residential
real
estate
and
that
money
can
be
used
for,
as
a
mayor
said,
affordable
housing,
open
space
and
historic
preservation,
I'm
hoping
that
the
majority
goes
to
affordable
housing
and
now
we're
working
with
the
state
to
match
that
1%.
So
it's
going
to
raise
roughly
20
million
dollars
a
year
for
Boston
and
if
we
get
the
match
from
the
state
which
we
used
to
have,
but
too
many
cities
joined
that
would
be
40
million
dollars
a
year.
H
A
1%
of
the
tax
bill
well
in
tax
bill,
so
well
the
way
it.
What
happened
was
the
legislature.
I
figure
here
was
I,
think
I
was
there
and
then
two
thousand
something
we
passed
community
preservation.
I
mean
we
passed
CPA
to
encourage
cities
and
towns
to
come
up
with
a
tool
to
raise
money
for
Historical,
Preservation,
open
space
and
housing.
A
We
put
in
that
time
when
we
funded
a
dollar
for
dollar
match
the
first
few
cities
came
in
and
did
it
because
I
don't
think
anyone
thought
that
anyone
would
do
it
because
you
have
to
be
raising
taxes
and
the
community's
gonna
raise
taxes
and
no
one
votes,
raising
taxes
on
themselves,
and
so
Boston
was
not
part
of
that.
We
had
about
I
think
there
was
about
60
or
70
cities,
we
tried
it
in
2000
and
we
thought
we
tried
it
in
2001,
I,
think
and
it
didn't
get
passed.
A
So
we
did
it
again
in
2017,
no
15,
2015
and
70%
of
the
voters
in
Boston
voted
for
it
and
we
were
able
to
get
the
business
community
is
supporting.
So
now
what's
happened
is
the
first
round.
The
money
is
going
out
the
front
door
and
a
lot
of
the
money's
going
into
historic
preservation,
because
if
you
think
about
our
historic
preservations
in
our
cities,
there's
no
money
for
that.
Now,
there's
money
for
parks,
we
put
money
in
parks
and
we
get,
people
can
donate
fell.
It
fell
on
topic,
people
donate.
A
We
have
money
for
housing
because
we
can
get
it
from
different
places,
but
no
one
wants
to
give
you
money
to
do
story
preservation,
so
we're
seeing
the
benefit
now.
The
doll.
It's
not
a
dollar
for
dollar
match
it's
17
cents
on
the
dollar,
but
we
still
still
20
million
dollars.
So
it's
1
percent
on
your
tax
bill,
so
we
gave
you
tax
bill
is
1%
of
that
edition.
A
A
Let
me
just
grab
this
one
first,
and
anyone
else
wants
to
jump
in
two
years
ago
was
the
first
time
in
the
history
of
Boston
that
we
had
to
use
our
general
fund
to
offset
the
shortfalls
in
our
housing
development.
You
know
housing
in
Boston,
Housing
Authority,
which
is
funded
by
had
we
started
to
make
some
adjustments.
Obviously
the
director
was
laying
people
off
and
cutting
staff,
and
that
became
a
problem,
so
we
started
to
do
we
did
it.
G
A
Then
you
reallocate
distribute
the
housing
on
the
land
and
doing
a
third,
a
third,
a
third,
a
third
low-income
third
middle-class,
a
third
high-end
income,
and
what
that's
doing
that's,
helping
us
and
then
we're
getting
beginning
in
some
case,
we're
getting
private
operator
to
run
a
run
out
of
properties.
For
us
we
have
to
be
creative
on
it
because
HUDs
not
being
helpful.
A
It
hasn't
been
helpful
in
a
while.
Quite
honestly,
in
a
week
we
got
a
30
million
dollar
grant
from
Wright
the
end
of
the
Obama
administration,
but
even
though
the
shortfall
was
happening
under
the
Obama
administration
because
it
wasn't
being
fully
funded,
so
I
would
suggest
that
we
have
a
really
good
director
in
Boston.
A
Our
Police
Department
now
is
taking
more
responsibility
for
patrolling
the
housing
developments.
We
used
to
have
a
housing
police
department
with
a
big
force
and
we're
working
our
Parks
and
Recreation,
and
trying
to
do
more
about
cleaning
the
space
around
those
so
we're
trying
to
give
them
additional
resources
to
that
way.
I.
B
Think
there,
but
was,
was
asking
something:
I
was
reluctant
to
do
it.
I
wanted
to
bring
it
up
myself
years
ago,
when
I
was
a
been
12
years
here,
I
would
be
a
little
more
forceful
about
bringing
it
up,
but
I
would
ask
the
chair
and
I
think
you're
particularly
suited
to
do
so
mayor
Walsh.
That
may
be
for
the
for
the
Washington
meeting.
We
have
some
folks
here
to
discuss
it.
I'm
gonna
be
real
brief,
but
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
outlining
with
mayor
butts
talking
about
in
Alexandria.
B
We
were
we're
in
an
ala,
Coty
City,
not
a
large
city,
but
enough
to
meet
it.
We
have
been
in
ministry
eh-eh-eh,
sights
of
the
housing
side
and
then,
of
course,
the
CDBG
side.
We've
been
a
model
city
for
20
years
before
I
was
mayor
for
the
12
years.
I
was
here
we
would
teach
the
courses
all
around
our
state.
B
We've
had
so
much
trouble
in
the
housing
side.
I
felt
like
there
started
to
be
a
little
punishment
on
the
CDBG
sod
at
the
risk
of
Hamlet
act,
3,
which
is
he
doth
protest
too
much.
Let
me
just
say
that
it's
easy
to
sit
here
and
say
that
and
then
everybody
wonders
well.
Maybe
you
did
something
wrong.
Maybe
we
had
the
first
time
in
the
history
of
our
city,
a
request
to
pay
back
a
certain
amount
or
to
pay
it
in
our
next
allocate
allocation,
we're
absolutely
innocent
of
the
charge.
B
In
fact,
there
is
a
recording
of
the
people
from
HUD
telling
us
to
change
the
way
we
were
allocating
the
three
to
four
national
standards.
Right.
You
have
your
three
or
four
goals,
depending
on
how
you
look
at
it.
They
come
in
and
help
you
and
tell
you
look
you're
going
to
have
trouble
meeting
it
here
or
because
cities
they
don't
allocate
enough
money
anymore.
You
may
say:
okay,
well,
look.
We
have
a.
We
have
a
CRA,
a
Community,
Redevelopment
area
that
we
can
put
in.
It
fits
all
of
your
goals.
B
B
I.
Think
one
of
my
girls
was
becoming
so
paranoid
with
them
down
in
Community
Development.
She
ended
up
recording
this
long
conversation
they
instructed
us
to
do
it.
Put
it
in.
Writing,
came
back
and
wanted
in
us
because
we
followed
their
recommendation
and
they
say
you
shouldn't
have
listened
to
us
literally,
that's
where
I
am
for
two
years,
I've
been
trying
to
deal
with
it.
So
here's
what
happens
mayor
you
have
a
new
allocation
coming.
You
don't
have
clearance
on
your
audit
from
two
years
back.
B
It's
already
one
year
review,
look
right
now,
you're,
two
years
back,
trying
to
administer
new
money
without
knowing.
What's
back
here
when
said
he
was
chair,
he
helped.
We
went
through
hell
to
try
to
get
this
resolved
from
one
city
that
this
whole
committee
has
jurisdiction
over
all
this,
but
I'm
just
telling
you
mayor,
I
I
personally
have
been
involved.
B
I
personally
looked
at
it
with
the
lawyers
eye
with
everything
else,
I'm
sort
of
dug
in
deep
on
the
weeds
in
this
understanding
it
and
you
can't
fix
it
and
somebody
we
I
think
you
have
to
get
them
to
be
more
accountable
and
I.
This
is
out
of
New
Orleans
office,
I,
suspect,
I,
know
some
of
the
the
issues
that
I'm
having
is
related
to
the
Housing
Authority
side.
But
it's
just
not
a
good
thing.
We
already
have
enough
trouble
administering
this.
B
It's
critical
to
my
city
as
yours,
and
if
we
don't
get
a
some
hold
of
how
they
need
to
move
through
these
national
standards
and
we're
being
over
audited
on
things,
they're
telling
us
what
to
do,
and
it's
it's
bureaucracy
mayor
at
its
worst.
It's
literally,
they
don't
know
their
rules
as
well.
As
my
person
knows,
the
rules
and
I
didn't
want
to
say
this
in
here
hope.
B
A
Yeah,
what
I'm
gonna
do
man
I
feel
mine,
I'd
love
to
get
both
your
numbers
and
and
and
also
we
will
see
we
can
do.
I
have
I
mean
I,
don't
know,
if
said
he's
done
this
in
the
I.
Don't
have
said
he's
done
this
in
the
past,
but
if
the
committee
wanted
to,
we
could
try
and
set
some
meetings
up
in
DC.
It
cuz
that
meetings
not
until
something
sold
winter.
C
Mister
mayor
just
to
add
in
from
Wyoming
Cheyenne's
the
capital
city,
we've
got
the
largest
population.
We,
like
you,
are
having
to
really
look
outside
the
box
with
public-private
partnerships
to
make
this
work.
I
can
tell
you
that
if
I
didn't
have
the
person
that
I
have
because
we
are
very
low
population
and
there
are
a
lot
of
regulations
if
I
didn't
have
that
individual
working
this
program
and
her
fine
abilities
I,
don't
know
that
we
would
participate
the
second
largest
community.
C
They
there
can't
they're
City
Council
voted
just
last
week
to
no
longer
participate
in
the
program.
The
rules
are
too
onerous.
The
regulations
are
too
are
too
high.
The
penalties
are
not
worth
it
for
our
communities
again.
We're
small
population
we're
only
talking,
but
only
is
really
big.
When
you
look
at
our
budgets,
350
360
thousand
dollars,
but
we've
decided
that
that's
that
that's
just
not
worth
it
to
play,
and
so
that
community
at
least,
is
no
longer
participating.
The
program,
which
is
very
it's.
C
A
Let
me
just
just
so
I'm
not
sure
how
the
committee
works
before,
but
maybe
we
can
talk
about.
June
is
setting
up
two
or
three
conference
calls,
whether
you
or
your
housing
people
on
it
a
year
to
talk
about.
You
know
we'll
have
one
what
the
issues
might
be
talk
about.
It
come
up
with
an
agenda
set
up
a
trip
to
Washington
go
down
to
Washington.
A
Anyone
who
can
make
it
or
representative
of
your
city
I'll
go,
and
we
will
have
the
conversations
down
there
and
then
just
have
an
ongoing
dialogue
and
then
report
back
to
the
Conference
of
Mayors.
What
exactly
it
is
that
we're
doing
I
mean
the
resolutions
are
great,
but
I
think
by
going
to
DC
as
a
conference,
it's
it's
a
little
more
effective
and.
A
Up
at
their
front
door,
knocking
on
the
front
door
be
helpful.
If
that
sounds
like
a
good
plan,
we
can.
We
can
do
that
two
or
three
calls
we'll
pre
pre
booked
them.
So
you
have
some
time
it
can
be
morning,
noon
and
night.
It
doesn't
matter,
and
you
know
we
don't
to
be
on
them.
We
can
have
our
people
on
them
just
so
that
they
talk
about.
What's
going
on
and
we'll
coordinate.
If
that
sounds
like
a
plan.
I
You
know
you
mentioned
the
public-private
partnerships,
we're
actually
doing
that
participating
in
rental
assistance,
demonstration
program
and
most
of
our
properties
we
put
into
that
and
we're
working
fine.
The
problem
was,
then
that
we
have
additional
properties
that
haven't
been
critically.
We
can't
get
them
approved
and
I
will
giving
you
one
him
I
appreciate
what
the
mayor
worsted
I
got
so
frustrated.
I
I
I
moved
to
dissolve
our
Housing
Authority
and
well
before
I
did
that
you
know
the
HUD
people
were
saying
you
guys
are
doing
a
terrible
job
at
you
know,
get
your
act
together,
we're
kind
of
we're
going
to
take
all
the
grass
that's
from
you
and
we're
gonna
define
them
every
element
over
B
in
the
county
and
I
called
up
the
county
director
and
I
said:
do
you
want
to
ask
that
she
says?
Are
you
kidding
me
no
kidding
one
of
the
ones
I
have
when
I
got
back
to
heaven.
I
I
said
they
don't
want
it.
You
got
somebody
in
mind
and
and
then
I,
then
I
moved
to
dissolve
the
housing
authority
and
I
actually
got
their
attention.
They
called
the
lead
week.
They
called
a
meeting.
We
had
a
big
telecom,
promote
their
people,
the
Washington
people
and
they
they
resolved
and
I'll.
Tell
you
what
the
last
thing
we
want
is
for
us
to
give
all
that
stuff.
I
B
We're
in
exactly
the
same
thing
as
both
my
councils,
taking
it
up,
as
I
said
we
have
had
to
try
to
I
know
this
sounds
I
want
to
be
careful.
They
want
to
push
the
Housing
Authority
saw
it
at
any
cost.
I
appoint
everybody
to
that
board.
There
is
a
lack
of
trust
as
a
mayor
from
there.
There
is
literally
this
has
become
an
issue
so
their
force
in
the
housing
side
and
we're
saying
look
we're
not
playing
in
helping
on
that.
B
This
separate
political
subdivision
from
the
city
until
you
resolve
these
other
issues,
so
now
I've
heard
that
two
more
times
that
that's
happening
with
other
folks.
This
push
between
the
housing
side
and
the
CDBG
side.
This
is
a
problem.
I'll
move
to
globally
on
these
I'm
for
CDBG
I
am
a
hundred
behind
the
goals
what
it
does,
but
this
has
to
be
fixed.
They
are
trapping
people
at
a
bureaucratic
level
into
fines
which
remember
you
don't
normally
have
to
pay
it
out
of
your
general
fund.
B
It
can
come
out
of
your
next
allocation,
but
if
you're
two
years
back
on
the
audit
you
all
of
a
sudden
build
up,
then
they
say
perhaps
hadn't
happened
to
me
yet
I
suspect
it's
happened
to
at
least
one
mayor
here
we
wanted
out
your
general
fund
write
a
check.
Can
you
imagine,
being
a
mayor
and
going
to
the
public
and
saying
I've
got
to
write
a
check
for
500,000
1
million
two
million
dollars,
because
somebody
who
has
been
trained
for
12
20
years
to
do
this?
F
A
Hard,
it's
not
one
of
the
things
that
we
we
did.
The
housing
plan,
Chile's
team-
put
it
together,
they're
in
the
midst
of
working
on
a
new
housing
plan
to
kind
of
upped
up
empty
numbers.
Part
of
this
was
with
our
college
universities.
We
were
about
250,000
kids
that
come
into
Boston
every
year,
enrollments
gone
up
in
those
universities,
so
that
means
that
that
froze
off
our
housing
goals
for
colleges.
So
we
have
to
encourage
them
to
build
more
on-campus
housing.
A
We're
also
partnering
now
with
the
Greater
Boston
mayor's
to
look
at
this
issue
as
a
regional
housing
issue,
because
it
is
a
regional
housing
issue
and
we
had
meeting
some
of
the
mayor's
are
here
here.
I
think
Joe
Sullivan
from
Braintree
Tom
Koch
from
Quincy
Dolan
from
Medford
the
man's
right
around
Boston,
Greater
Boston,
so
we're
working
with
with
those
folks
on
on
on
creating
a
housing,
regional
housing
goals
in
plans.
A
So
that's
another
piece
and
then
we're
looking
at
20,000
of
our
units,
a
middle-income,
eight
thousand,
a
low-income
of
so
so
we're
trying
to
constantly
so
in
when
we
in
2016
we
saw
a
stabilization
or
rents
going
up
in
Boston.
We
actually
saw
a
decrease
of
4%
and
we
were
pretty
excited
about
that
because
we're
building
housing,
okay,
no,
it
was
starting
to
see
some
gains
here
and
then
in
2017
that
got
wiped
out
rents
it
back
up
4%.
It
went
up
4%
and
then
added
a
little
more
on
top
of
that.
A
So
we
out
there.
This
is
such
a
demand
for
housing.
So,
but
what
we
have
to
do,
the
approach
we're
taking
now
is
building
more
housing
in
Boston,
which
is
becoming
an
issue
because
people
are
saying
not
in
my
backyard,
and
the
second
thing
is
trying
to
get
some
of
the
cities
and
towns
around
Boston
to
build
more
housing.
So
we
can
create
a
cluster
or
a
regionalization
of
it.
We
has
to
be
regional
in
Boston.
You
know
we're
not
with
700,000
people
roughly
in
Greater
Boston
with
2.4
million
people.
A
D
D
But
what
we
don't
see
on
a
national
level,
it's
a
real
discussion
about
how
do
you?
How
do
you
recognize
that
this
don't
exist
one,
and
instead,
it's
just
like
we're
just
gonna
keep
working
on
these
programs.
We're
not
really
gonna
have
a
discussion
about
the
fact
that
low-income
housing
just
doesn't
work
and
again
growing.
You
know
modern
cities
in
that
war,
where
you
believe
in
access.
A
A
We
have
other
cities,
part
of
our
conference
that
are
getting
poorer
people
moving
into
the
city
that
is
changing
the
dynamics
of
their
city
as
well.
So
I
think
that
if
we
could
figure
out
as
we
do,
the
first
call
think
about
what
are
the
two
or
three
issues
we
should
focus
on.
And
what
should
we
push
because
I
think
that
when
we
go
down
in
Washington,
I
would
like
to
say
that
I
think
they'll
listen
to
us,
but
we
know
they
won't,
but
I
think
I
think
we're
laying
down
the
foundation
for
this
problems.
A
Problems
not
going
away
and
I
think
if
we
can
push
an
agenda
and
talk
about
what
we're
doing,
sharing
best
practices.
I
think
it's
key
I
mean
so
in
Boston,
in
January,
in
2014,
when
I
first
got
in
this
job,
I
brought
in
the
business
community
to
talk
about
we're,
gonna
increase
your
number
of
inclusionary
development
number
for
low
income
for
the
long
term
units
it
was
13%.
We
moved
it
to
18%.
A
The
housing
advocates
want
us
to
go
to
like
25%
and
the
the
developers
probably
wanted
us
to
go
to
10%,
but
we
end
up
at
18%
which
allowed
us
in
Boston
and
obviously
in
different
situation
in
a
lot
of
cities
because
of
all
the
development
going
on
I
think
we
raised
nearly
57
million
dollars
the
first
couple
of
years
and
they
were
close
to
100
million.
Now
that's
going
into
housing.
A
We
also
have
issues
with
expiring
use,
we're
housing
units,
a
low-income
housing
today
and
then
the
expiring
use
is
it's
coming
due
and
we're
trying
to
convince
people
to
keep
the
housing
low
income,
but
we've
had
developments
in
Boston
where
they've
they've
turned
it
over.
So
now
that
adds
to
our
problem
of
more
of
less
affordable
housing.
So
again,
I
think
these
are
complex
issues
that
if
we
want
to
continue
to
address
these
I
have
no
problem
with
coming
up
with
a
plan
with
all
of
us,
not
my
plan
y'all
playing,
and
we
should.
A
We
should
pick
two
or
three
issues
that
affect
different
sized
cities
in
America,
that
we
can
actually
go
back
to
the
conference
and
say
to
them.
This
is
what
we're
doing
and
I
think
that
having
a
conversation
at
the
conference
on
a
global
scale
would
not
be
a
bad
thing.
You
know
we
have
a
lot
of
different
topics
that
we
talk
about
from
the
from
the
podium,
but
I
think
housing
is
probably
uniform.
A
The
biggest
issue
for
all
of
us
across
every
single
city
in
America,
I
think
if
we
could
talk
to
Tom
and
Steve
Benjamin
that
you
know
in
in
January,
we
might
want
to
have
a
dialogue
on
housing,
a
major
dialogue
in
housing
and
bring
in
some
some
people
that
can
talk
about
it
because
I
think
even
under
the
last
administration
in
DC
they
were
good.
But
the
problem
that
Mia
Roy
has
you
still
had
the
problem
three
years
ago.
So
it
you
know
it
was
a
problem
in
HUD.
A
A
F
H
A
H
H
A
There's
bureaucrats
in
Washington
and
you
know
I
think
we
should
request
a
meeting
with
Ben
Carson
and
said
now
of
them,
but,
more
importantly,
I
think
we
should
sit
down
with
the
people
that
are
under
him
right
that
have
been
there
for
Korea
and
say
that
these
are
some
of
the
challenge
we
have
because
they
ultimately
I
mean
we
listen.
We
run
our
cities,
but
you
know
everyone
behind
this
directs
the
policy.
So
there
might
be
the
right
people.
We
could
come
across
the
right
person
to
art.
H
To
but
they'll
probably
just
say
well,
you
know
we
can't
make
a
decision
and
it's
the
person
above
us
that's
holding
us
back,
and
you
know
we
all
know
how
bureaucracies
work.
We
know
how
they
work
within
our
own
within
our
own
systems,
so
so
I
think
the
challenge
will
definitely
be
there,
but
I
think
your
your
goal
is
is
laudable.
It's
just
you
know,
let's
be
careful,
that
we're
not
expecting
too
much
we're
going
into
this.
B
A
A
E
Think,
mayor,
Walsh,
I
I
think
it
makes
a
lot
of
sense
in
that
a
lot
of
the
lower-level
staff
and
even
higher
level
staffer
at
HUD
are
getting
quite
frustrated
and
mean
I.
Think
one
of
the
most
recent
proposals
that
I
came
out
of
I
saw
that
came
out
of
HUD
was
that
they
were
gonna
solve
the
affordable
housing
crisis
by
increasing
the
rents,
which
is
like
kind
of
it's
actually
kind
of
comical,
but
scaring.
At
the
same
time,.
E
And
so
you
know,
to
the
extent
that
we
can
build
those
relationships
out
with
staff.
I
think
I
think
makes
a
whole
lot
of
sense,
something
something
else
that
we're
working
on
I
think
other
cities
may
be,
maybe
touching
on
this
a
little
bit
as
well.
We've
got
this.
We've
got
this
four
D
program
that
we
just
pushed
through
in
Minneapolis
and
it's
it's
a
program
that
allows
for
the
retention
of
naturally
occurring,
affordable
housing
and
no,
you
know
it's
like
three
times
cheaper,
to
retain
naturally
occurring
affordable
housing.
A
And
I
just
look
at
my.
We
have
a
thing
in
Nicks
and
the
next
room
introducing
everyone
yeah
before
it's
a
motion
to
adjourn.
Second
before
we
adjourn
we
will
send
out
next
week,
will
Senate
will
send
the
first
contact
everyone
and
we'll
get
the
information
and
then
we'll
do
a
call
and
then
we'll
get
our
officers
working
and
come
down
with
three
or
four
bullet
points
and
we'll
throw
some
dates
out
for
the
fall.
What's
what
works
and
give
it
long
enough
informational?