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Description
San Bruno City Council Meeting January 14, 2014
4. Presentations
Presentation by HIP Housing
B
B
B
So
tonight,
I'm
here
to
do
three
things
first,
is
to
do
a
calendar
presentation
for
the
hip
housing
annual
calendar.
The
second
is
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
crisis
that
San
Mateo
County
is
facing
an
affordable
housing
and
then
finally,
to
talk
about
why
hip
housing
is
a
good
answer
for
that
crisis
and
the
work
that
we've
done
here
in
San
Bruno.
So
to
start,
the
presentation
I
want
to
call
your
attention
to
the
calendar
that
each
of
you
have
gotten.
This
is
our
annual
calendar.
B
Each
year
we
ask
good
school
children
from
throughout
the
county
to
draw
pictures
and
tell
us
what
home
means
to
them.
Then
we
have
to
pick
12
and
it's
always
really
really
hard,
but
this
year
is
really
special,
because
we
had
three
winners
on
our
calendar
contest
that
were
from
the
city
of
San
Bruno.
The
first
is
in
April
I
mean
our
March.
B
The
second
is
in
April
and
then
the
third
one
is
at
the
very
end,
because
we've
actually
added
a
13th
month,
because
we
had
to
pick
one
more
so
I'd
like
to
call
up
two
of
our
winners
tonight.
To
read
their
quote
and
show
you
what
housing
means
to
them
from
the
eyes
of
a
child,
so
Kendall
and
Kylie
come
over
and
join
me.
Please.
C
C
B
There's
no
better
expression
of
what
home
means
than
from
the
words
of
a
child.
So
what
I'd
like
to
do
now
is
talk
a
little
bit
about
what's
happening
in
San,
Mateo
County,
so
San
Mateo
County
is
actually
facing
an
unprecedented
crisis
and
affordable
housing
by
any
standard
where
one
of
the
most
expensive
places
to
live
in
the
country.
One
in
five
families
can't
currently
afford
their
housing
situation
in
2100
people
sleep
homeless,
each
night.
B
That's
up
twelve
percent,
since
2012
2011,
when
we
did
our
last
homeless
count
to
11,
which
is
the
United
Way's
service
line.
To
call
for
referrals,
takes
more
referrals
for
housing
related
issues
than
any
other
issue.
Thirty-Six
percent
of
their
calls
come
for
housing
related
services.
The
next
closest
thing
is
food
insecurity,
and
that's
only
at
ten
percent.
So
by
twenty
six
percent.
More
calls
and
for
anything
else,
the
shelter,
the
section
eight
shelter
wait
list
I
mean
the
section.
Eight
wait
lists
are
closed.
B
B
That's
been
fueled
by
the
foreclosure
crisis,
so
not
only
did
people
who
own
homes
get
forced
out
of
their
homes
and
into
the
rental
market,
but
people
who
rented
homes
that
were
foreclosed
on
or
apartments
that
had
been
foreclosed
on
also
we're
forced
into
the
rental
market.
As
a
result,
we've
seen
increasing
rent
rates
go
up
ever
since
2000,
actually,
seven
and
right
now,
a
one-bedroom
apartment
in
this
county
is
21
hundred
dollars.
On
average,
the
occupancy
rate
in
this
county
is
also
ninety-seven
percent.
B
So
that
means
that,
even
if
you
can
afford
a
place
to
live,
you
probably
can't
find
it.
We've
seen
a
loss
of
middle-income
families
as
more
earning
200,000
and
above
go
up,
meaning
income
disparity
is
growing
in
this
county,
realignment
investors
buying
rental
properties
and
pushing
the
prices
up
the
growing
distribution
of
income,
the
growing
a
gap
in
the
income
and
the
slow
recovery
for
those
at
the
lowest
levels
of
the
economy
has
really
caused
what
we
are
truly
calling
a
crisis
in
affordable
housing
there's
also
a
misconception
about
job
growth.
B
We
are
definitely
going
to
have
jogged,
grew
up
and
thought
we're
gonna
have
a
lot
of
job
growth,
but
not
all
of
its
going
to
be
high
tech.
High
paying
the
majority
of
jobs
are
going
to
be
coming
to
San
Mateo
County
are
going
to
be
in
the
service
industry,
paying
fifty
thousand
or
less
as
a
result.
What
we're
going
to
see
is
that
EMTs
teachers,
sales
folks
bank
tellers
all
aren't
going
to
be
able
to
afford
to
live
here
on
average
any
one
of
those.
B
If
you
start
with
a
schoolteacher,
you
can
see
the
graph
there
they
make
just
under
70,000
in
order
to
be
able
to
afford
even
a
nineteen
hundred
dollar
apartment.
It's
going
to
be,
you
have
to
make
about
83,000
dollars,
so
what
we
see
is
there
just
isn't
enough
enough
housing
and
enough
affordable
housing.
We've
also
seen
a
major
funding
decrease
in
how
we
get
affordable
housing
created
really
tying
the
hands
of
most
municipalities.
So
between
the
demise
of
the
redevelopment
agencies,
which
most
people
thought
those
were,
you
know
the
big
funders
of
downtown's
and
stadiums.
B
Well,
they
were
also
the
primary
funder
for
affordable
housing,
development
and
programs.
So
we've
seen
a
billion
dollars
in
losses
to
affordable
housing
programs
throughout
the
state
in
the
loss
of
ea's,
the
HUD
cuts
to
CDBG
grant
funding
has
meant
about
fifty
one
percent
decrease
in
funding
available
for
housing
right
now,
sequestration
the
Palmer
decision,
which
was
the
decision
that
that,
as
at
the
state
level,
that
says
that
you
can
no
longer
require
inclusionary
housing
that
it's
it's,
that
you
really
have
to
be
cautious.
To
do
that.
B
So
most
cities
are
not
requiring
developers
any
longer
to
provide
affordable
units
when
they
do
new
development.
That
and
then
the
final
blow
to
the
housing
funding
cycle
was
the
community
foundation.
So
the
Silicon
Valley
Community
Foundation,
announced
over
the
summer
that
they
will
no
longer
fund
safety
safety
net
services.
So,
as
of
2014,
all
housing
and
food
oriented
agencies
no
longer
receive
funding.
B
We
lost
50,000
shelter,
network
lost
125,000,
second
Harvard
food,
Second,
Harvest,
Food,
Bank
lost
about
200,000,
so
between
santa
clara
and
san
mateo
county
32
agencies
were
affected
by
that
decision
by
the
Silicon
Valley
Community
Foundation.
So
what
does
that
mean
means?
People
have
to
live
pretty
far
away
in
order
to
be
able
to
work
here
we
have
about
a
hundred
and
eighty-four
thousand
people
that
commute
into
the
county
every
day,
creating
traffic
issues
and
for
those
at
the
lowest
income
and
lows
earning
levels.
It's
just
not
sustainable.
B
If
you're,
making
minimum
wage
and
you're
living
far
away.
You're
spending
likely
about
seventy
percent
of
your
income
on
housing
and
transportation.
It's
not
sustainable.
So
when
is
it
ends
up
happening?
Is
that
you're
going
to
end
up
because
we
have
an
affordable
housing
shortfall,
we're
going
to
end
up
with
workforce
shortfalls
as
well
and
who's
hit
hardest?
Of
course,
those
at
the
lowest
income
levels
and
seniors
and
those
with
disabilities.
B
Since
1972
we've
helped
66,000
people
to
find
housing.
Related
referrals
and
services.
We've
actually
placed
almost
20,000
people
in
housing
each
year,
currently
replacing
about
1400
people
in
affordable
housing.
700
of
those
are
in
our
home
sharing
program,
another
450
and
our
properties
250
and
our
self-sufficiency
program.
B
We
feels
about
3,000
calls
we're
actually
tracking
at
about
3,300
calls
this
year
for
housing
related
services,
but
the
primary
thing
is:
we
really
look
for
creative
ways
to
create
affordable
housing,
home
sharing
one
hour,
premiere
program
partners,
those
who
have
space
in
their
home
with
those
who
need
a
place
to
live,
thus
turning
an
existing
house
into
a
new,
affordable
housing
option.
The
average
home
share
is
going
to
spend
about
six
hundred
dollars
between
six
and
eight
hundred
dollars
for
rent.
B
So
when
you
compare
that
to
twenty
one
hundred
dollars
for
a
one-bedroom
apartment,
it
becomes
one
of
the
only
affordable
options
available.
We
provide
criminal
background
checks.
We
make
me,
do
income
verification
we
put
together
lengthy,
living
together
agreements
for
our
seniors
and
Home
Sharing.
We
do
quarterly
follow-up
calls
so
that
we
make
sure
that
everybody's
understands
the
relationship
and
to
try
and
ensure
that
the
relationships
are
successful.
B
We
have
one
of
the
largest
home
sharing
programs
in
the
nation.
We
have
the
only
one
on
the
peninsula.
Santa
Clara
County
had
a
small
one.
It
closed
this
year.
There
isn't
one
in
San,
Francisco,
there's
a
small
one
on
the
east
bay,
but
for
the
most
part
where
it
we
work
with
about
1,900
people
a
year
like
I
said
the
average
rent
is
somewhere
between
six
and
eight
hundred
dollars.
B
Home
sharing
is
good
for
everyone
right.
It
creates
community
a
can
partner,
a
senior
with
a
student.
It
can
partner
someone
from
San
Bruno
with
someone
from
millbrae
or
San
Mateo.
It
creates
community,
it's
cross,
it
benefits
every
community
in
the
county
and
it
is
an
immediate
way
to
address
the
risk
of
homelessness.
Many
of
our
clients,
now
eighty
percent,
more
than
we
had
even
four
years
ago,
are
now
either
homeless
or
at
risk
of
homelessness,
as
a
result
of
not
being
able
to
find
housing
in
the
county.
B
They're
about
60,
home
sharing
programs,
internationally
70
programs
throughout
the
u.s.
we've
consulted
with
most
of
those
and
setting
up,
because
we
do
have
a
very
intensive
database
and
the
model
program
throughout
the
county.
We've
been
featured
on
CBS
Evening,
News,
Oprah,
actually
featured
us
in
one
of
her
programs.
Jackie
Speier
is
a
strong
supporter
of
us.
Are
her?
Parents
were
actually
home
providers
at
one
point
and
then
we
local
news
has
covered
us.
In
fact,
we
were
just
interviewed
yesterday
by
the
CM
Silicon
Valley
Business
Times
self-sufficiency.
B
Our
second
program
is
a
welfare-to-work
program,
one
of
the
top
seven
in
the
state
it
for
families
who
have
children
who
are
low-income,
who
want
to
break
their
cycle
of
poverty.
This
program
provides
housing,
scholarships
and
long
term
case
management,
life
skills,
workshop
and
housing
placement
opportunities.
Basically,
we
allow
people
to
focus
on
school.
They
have
to
have
an
identifiable
school
goal
or
educational
goal.
We
help
them
meet
those
goals
by
providing
the
housing
and
the
tools
that
they
need
in
order
to
create
a
sustainable
life.
B
It's
one
of
our
most
successful
programs,
one
hundred
percent
of
the
graduates
report
better
housing
situation
when
they
leave
the
program.
The
average
increase
in
income
is
about
eighty-one
percent
and
ninety
percent
report.
More
better
management
skills.
That's
one
of
the
things
we
really
focus
on
in
our
workshops
and
skills
based
learning
and
the
other
thing
is
that
all
of
them
come
out
with
about
thirteen
hundred
dollars
in
savings,
and
these
are
all
folks
who
were
literally
referred
from
shelters
or
at
risk
of
homelessness
that
had
nothing
when
they
came
into
the
program.
B
So
that's
pretty
substantial.
Finally,
we
owned
14
properties
throughout
the
county.
Our
newest
acquisition
was
in
Menlo
Park
use.
Menlo
Park
is
the
first
piece
of
affordable
rental
housing
to
go
into
Menlo
Park
in
25
years.
It
was
a
12-unit
complex
now,
home
to
four
veteran
families
to
self-sufficiency,
families
and
a
variety
of
other
low-income.
So
we
do
our
property
development
by
finding
properties
that
are
already
in
decay
are
in
decline.
B
We
partner
with
the
city
with
the
county
and
with
private
funders
to
go
and
rehab
them
and
make
them
permanently
affordable,
housing,
our
work
in
San
Bruno.
So
in
20
of
our
fiscal
year
you
know
crosses
over
two
years,
probably
much
like
yours,
but
in
1213
we
took
98
calls
from
San
Bruno.
We
interviewed
104
people
who
either
work
or
live
in
the
city
of
San
Bruno.
Thirteen
percent
participated
in
home
sharing
and
two
participated
in
self-sufficient.
That's
just
for
that
year.
B
This
year
we've
had
a
nineteen
percent
increase
in
clients
applying
to
home,
sharing
that
live
or
work
in
the
city
of
San
Bruno.
So
while
those
numbers
reflect
what
happened
that
year,
currently
in
total,
we
have
16
home
providers
and
16
folks
matched
here
in
in
san
bruno,
which
means
we
have
32
people
participating
in
the
home
sharing
program
and
we
have
five
self-sufficiency
families
working
here.
B
I
am
currently
working
on
some
language
for
housing
elements,
so
expect
something
from
me
soon
in
the
mail-
and
I
just
want
to
finalize
this
with
with
a
great
big
super
big
thank-you,
because
San
Bruno
has
been
an
amazing
partner.
We're
so
grateful
for
your
support
of
affordable
housing,
your
understanding
for
the
need
of
it,
and
we
hope
that
every
time
you
look
at
this
calendar
you'll
be
reminded
not
only
of
our
programs
but
the
hope
and
the
heart
and
the
homes
that
are
hip
housing.
Thank.
D
D
And
I
always
look
forward
to
getting
I
know.
Bob
George
is
fellow
architect
and
has
always
been
gracious
and
getting
us
a
calendar
each
year.
It's
the
main
calendar
I
use,
but
this
is
the
best
presentation
I've
had
as
far
as
describing
what
hip
housing
is
about
and
and
as
much
as
it's
so
desirable
to
live
in
this
area.
I
mean
since
1972,
you've
been
constantly
behind
I'm
sure,
and
even
though
we
have
now
focused
on
affordable
housing
and
we
did
redevelopment
on
we're
still
behind
so
I'm
at
I,
guess
I'm.
D
B
Great
expensive,
it
is
it's
a
wonderful
place
to
live.
We
just
have
to
figure
out
how
to
make
it
good
for
everybody,
because
for
everyone,
a
high
paying
high
tech
job,
we
create
five
service
positions,
and
that
creates
the
lifestyle
that,
though,
that
we
all
want
so
being
able
to
House
people
close
to
where
their
work
is
key
to
keeping
a
lifestyle
that
we
all
want.
Thank
thank
you
again.
A
Okay,
thank
you
very
much
for
your
presentation.
I
think
my
colleague
summarizes
it
with
all
the
work
that
you
do
in
the
efforts
and,
of
course
we
want
to
thank
mr.
and
mrs.
March
and
April
Kendall
and
Kylie
for
lead
us
in
the
pledge
night
and
thank
you
very
much
for
reading
us,
your
statement
and
a
good
job.
Congratulations.