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- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Girardi You keep saying that it's affordable housing, but there's actually no commitment anywhere in this application That this is gonna be affordable housing. There's Okay. It's just a rezoning to MF one. So Have you used have you obtained any grants from our community development department to ensure this remains affordable. I mean I y you keep making the statement over and over that it's affordable housing, but I see nothing in this application that commits it to being an affordable housing project.
- Current affordable housing programs and funding
Several speakers with supportive housing, and those could be affordable units, but also the type of wraparound services to help people stay housed. These can be people that have been experiencing homelessness homelessness, older adults, people with disabilities or special needs. So we want them to be housed. It's healthier for them, it's less expensive for our community for them to be housed, but in order for them to stay housed, they need services along with their housing. From there, we move into the affordable rental housing, and we heard a lot about the statistics of what type of rental housing we needed and the cost burden. Rental housing could include housing from the public housing units, also the units that are subsidized through Florida housing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. USDA, and then vouchers that come from the Housing Authority, and as mentioned earlier,
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Several speakers Girardi: I acknowledge the need for affordable housing. I acknowledge there's a need for affordable housing in the county. Yes,
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Todd Pressman That that is precisely it. This is a affordable housing of last resort, a single efficiencies. Single efficiencies for people who can't afford a brand new affordable housing complex with a pool. uh and amenities and one, two, or three bedrooms. That's just the reality of How some people Uh have a choice how they have to live. Again as a last resort.
- 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
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Girardi I'm just not really clear whether this is an affordable housing project or not, but uh but okay. It sounds like a sales pitch. I'm just saying that most affordable housing projects that are that come into the county and they're seeking approval as an affordable housing project.
- Current affordable housing programs and funding
Several speakers Unidentified A: Because we have over five hundred thousand people, a certain amount of low income people, and the age of our housing.
- Current affordable housing programs and funding
Several speakers So for C D BG, we get about three million dollars a year plus a little bit of program income. And in addition to public services, we can do some affordable housing activities. Oddly enough, we cannot build housing with C D B G, but we can buy housing, we could buy land, we could clear land. And get it ready for housing. And we could do access modifications or infrastructure. An example of this is those of you that know that Vincent House, we helped them build the beautiful facility that they have there. And now they're getting ready to build 39 units of affordable housing for their members. And we put $1.1 million. dollars of infrastructure money in so that they could be prepared to build. So we could do that with C D BG. Our home money is strictly for housing. So we could build new housing, we could renovate housing, we could do homeownership, we could do rental housing.
- Housing need cost burden and policy tools
Several speakers are squeezing their incomes to try to afford housing. I also wanted to take a brief look at who are the people earning these 80% AMI or lower wages. And so you can see that these are people, not just unskilled laborers, but also teachers and bank tellers and building inspectors. You know, I've often seen people talk about affordable housing as something undesirable, and the people who live in affordable housing. are stigmatized, but all of us every day not only are uh encountering people but are dependent on people who are at these income levels. And so I think it's important to make sure that they are included in any plans we have for housing in the county. And so this uh slide is a snapshot of on average what it costs to buy or rent today and who can afford it. Now, again, if you've lived in your residence for a longer period of time, you probably have much more affordable housing. Your rent is lower, you
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Girardi So my question primarily to you is if it was an affordable housing project, why didn't you go through our community development department Seek grants, seek impact fee reductions, w which As far as I know, every affordable housing project in the county that comes in as an affordable housing project does that. What I honestly I reviewed this before it got here.
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Girardi they try to take advantage of either grants or reductions of impact fee. They they There's a lot of things they do to make the project affordable. Typically an affordable project wouldn't want to be paying one point four million in impact fee because then they gotta raise their rents. Which probably makes it not affordable. So you're coming in here saying it's affordable But you you haven't done any of the steps that a normal affordable housing applicant would do. To make sure it stays affordable.
- PDE-25-78-18 HCM Hospitality MF1 rezoning
Several speakers Girardi: If you're saying it's affordable housing, you should know what tier you're committing to.