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- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Mariano Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thank you all. Um I when Kathy and I met, you know, as Chairman of the Housing Authority for the last fourteen years, We have seen a significant issue um with people being able to afford housing. So we started a program called Family Self Sufficiency, so where the Housing Authority would put a portion of Someone who was at the housing authorities rent in an escrow account and help them put a down payment on a house. This was after they went through all these financial courses and everything else and got very self sustaining, and then we went to the market to try to find Housing. There was none available. That they could even afford uh in Pasco County. And I don't call it affordable housing. For me, it's workforce housing because these people, although they lived in a Pasco County housing authority community, Worked every day. They were working in our county. They had a um We even worked
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Kathy Pearson produced a scope of work, and you're going to see the wonderful results today. And the preliminary research for this project was provided by nine graduate students in the class that they were called Fall Fall, they took a fall affordable housing class. And believe it or not, three of them were employed by Pasco County getting their graduate programs. So we actually had three Pasco County students part of this study, so that was pretty cool. So, you know, affordable housing, uh we've heard so many different terms affordable housing, we've heard workforce housing, we've heard this, we've heard that. And generally it's defined as housing that costs no more than 30 percent of a household's income. And it's very essential to our c economic stability. The more people spend on housing, the less money they spend on essentials like the food, the health care, and the education that is needed. So like Mike said, today you're going to see the results of that study. Um that will be presented by Dr. Elizabeth Strom. You're gonna see Marcy Esberg,
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Kathy Pearson Apologize for that. Kathy Pearson, Assistant County Administrator, Public Services. Welcome, Commissioner Yeager. It's great to have you on board. So uh affordable housing, we um how did we get here? So David Lambert, as you probably all know, he is the uh chair of the Pasco Housing Authority and also the executive vice president and general manager with Lacouche Electric and a wonderful partner of the county. We do a lot of projects with him. And occasionally David and I get together and we try to conquer the world and solve all people's problems and affordable housing came up. And we both sat there and said, you know, we have never had an affordable housing plan for Pasco County. So David grabbed me and took me to his PASCO Housing Authority board and convinced his board to pay for this study for us. So how wonderful is that that they did that. And so then we partnered with Dr. Elizabeth Strom from the USF School of Public Affairs. We
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Mike Carballa Issue because it does vary based on locality. And I think what you're going to see here is some presentations that talk about an affordable housing study that has been conducted over the past year. And we're also going to talk a little bit about some of the things that we have been doing here in the county, as well as some proposed activities that we think would also help. Needless to say, it's a conversation that happens here. It also happens in the community or those that even build affordable housing that need to be brought in to the conversation too to see what it is that they need as as part of this. So it's a it's a team sport like any. And so I'll ask Kathy Pearson just to kind of moderate for us today. And
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Several speakers Mike Carballa: Well we can certainly present the slides um and have them printed out right now for you, of course.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Kathy Pearson So uh if I could respectfully ask, um we have uh Dr. Elizabeth Strom's gonna come up and present first. If we could hold the questions till the end, because it might be three or four slides later those answers to some of those questions, that would be great. So Dr. Elizabeth Strom. Okay.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Kathy Pearson uh Director of Community Development, talk about some of the things that we have done in community development. And then we're gonna bring in David uh Ingall and David Goldstein, who are gonna bring it in for a landing and maybe some suggestions of what we should could be and what we should be doing. And I wanna say thank you to this team. Um We had many conference calls and talks trying to put this PowerPoint together. And truly, I learned so much on going through this whole process and how important it is in affordable housing. But before I bring Dr. Elizabeth Strom up, I would like to bring David Lambert up and have him share some of his thoughts on the affordable housing and thank him publicly for what they've done. So David, come on up.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Mariano we wanted to see a plan that that that really worked for our citizens and uh That's how we got here today. And welcome. Uh uh thank you all for your time today and I look forward to Listen to Dr. Strom's presentation for the third time.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Oakley What's good? Uh Kathy I'm gonna say one thing uh as we're starting. I did find an agenda. I wanna let everyone in put on notice that everyone, all five commissioners are present. And that we're going forward with the workshops. Okay.
- Affordable housing study and all commissioners present
Several speakers Starkey: Yeah, get going, but if some is someone listening and they'll get us some hard copies of something.