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To the city session of december 17th at 503. Good evening commissioners. Tonight katie is

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going to be presenting on the displacement avoidance plan, and they'll go into a little

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bit more about what that is and what that entails during the presentation. And we'll also be

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happy to answer any questions that you guys may have at the conclusion of the presentation.

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thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Good evening, chair and commissioner autauga. It's

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great to be here. I am christian rodriguez and I am a principal with conecuh design

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initiative. I'm joined with by corinne odom, one of our planning associates. And we're

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here, like kendra said, to talk to you about the displacement avoidance plan, which is an

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initiative that is part of the transformative climate communities. And we're really

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excited to share more on the program. What we'll be doing for the next few years, the

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larger tcc program. And then we have a moment to just get your thoughts and collect your

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feedback as we embark in the next steps for our work. So do we have a clicker? Yes. Oh,

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great. All right. So like I said, christian, our team here in the eastern coachella valley

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is also. A part of the bigger team. Martin who's our community coordinator, and

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edith and they're both here tonight. Gui design initiative, or cdai for short, is a

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nonprofit design and urban planning firm. We have offices in los angeles, here in the

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city of coachella, which I lead, and then in other parts of the world, and our work is, you

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know, goes beyond. But a lot of the work that we've done here has been done since at least

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2013, and we've done work from building parks to doing mobility planning to working

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with the city of coachella, helping you all get some money from the state for various

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different implementation projects. And our team for the displacement avoidance plan

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also includes key impact. Who will be our policy technical support, and they will be doing

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research and ultimately helping us come back to you all with policy recommendations. And

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we're also partnering with fair housing council of riverside county. They will be doing one

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on one counseling. They will be doing landlord and tenant mediation during the project

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timeline, and we'll host a first time homebuyer education workshop, and we'll be going

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out and promoting some know your rights to tenant in in the city as the project goes on. So

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today we want to talk to you, give you a project overview, share a little bit more about

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what displacement is, talk to you about some trends that we'll be looking out for, and

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then share what the community engagement and community involvement in the displacement

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avoidance plan is. Then we'd like to, like I said, get your feedback and ask some questions

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and talk to you about what comes next after this presentation. So the

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displacement avoidance plan or the dap as we'll refer to it, is part of a larger initiative

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by the city of coachella that you all are probably aware of. It's part of the transformative

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climate communities or the tcc. This program was launched in 2017 by the california state

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legislature, and it's intended to be a neighborhood level transformative plan and to

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reduce, ultimately reduce, greenhouse gas emissions. Tcc provides an array of local

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economic, environmental, and health benefits. Some of the types of programs that are

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included in here in the program are things like affordable housing, shared mobility, green

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infrastructure, energy efficiency, all of things that are part of the coachella.

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prospera is the name of the tcc program, and all of those things are part of coachella.

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prospera. The tcc is part of the cap and trade dollars. So as we know, folks that are

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doing some things to our environment pay in to be able to do that. And so california

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uses that funding in order to mitigate, reduce emissions, continue to encourage economic

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development in communities like ours and protect public health. So like I mentioned, coachella,

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prospera, the name of the tcc program here in the city, sets out to create a more equitable

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and climate resilient community. Doing this through neighborhood planning that supports climate

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change adaptation, the healthy development of children, and the ability of older adults to

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age in place. Overall, a sense of connectedness and benefit to all of coachella residents as

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part of the coachella prospera is the displacement avoidance plan or the dap, like I

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mentioned, and this is really intended to help residents and small businesses stay in place.

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what we know and the state knows is that when you do a large investment in communities

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that haven't had investment capital investment, there are certain things that tend to

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happen. The value of property goes up, and so that can cause direct and indirect

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displacement. And I'll leave some of that for my colleague to share more on. But this

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process is intended to offset those potential negative impacts of a large economic

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investment in in the community. And in order to even get the funding to do that investment,

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we needed to do some preliminary work. So we've been working with staff for a few

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years now. Actually, when we applied for this funding was in 2022. So I want to say three

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years ago, we first went out and engaged the community through a series of focus

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groups and stakeholder interviews. We held a focus group with small business

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owners to learn about what were some of the concerns and the landscape. You know, their

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experience in the city, and to see if there were any possible. Policies that could be

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implemented to support their their growth and their ability to stay. And then also, we met

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with housing advocates and nonprofits in the area to sort of speak on behalf of residents

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and some of the experiences. We then took all of that information and did a policy

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workshop with city staff, and ultimately came to a set of policy recommendations that

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were given to city council for consideration. City council then approved those

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recommendations, and that's what ultimately was integrated into the application for the

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tcc. And so we set out to, you know, do some further consideration and

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implementation of these policies. But we're not held to that. It was something that

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city council said we can consider. But ultimately, what we really need to do is to

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implement a total of six anti-displacement policies and three need to be focused on

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residential policies. Three need to be focused towards small business retention, and

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six is the minimum. We could do more, but this is all that we're being held to as part of

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the contract with sgc, the state. So like I said, the displacement avoidance plan

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requirements are to implement these policies and programs. We need to address displacement

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vulnerability throughout the cycle of the grant. And we need to focus within the defined

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project area, which is what you're seeing there. So this doesn't expand to the entire

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city, the concentration and the resources that are done. Although policies would be

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citywide, our engagement efforts and all of the work that our partners will be doing

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will be really focusing within the project area. And like I said, all of this is intended

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to lead to some robust community engagement. So I'm going to pass it over to my

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colleague corinne, who's going to share a little bit more about displacement. Thank you,

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thank you, thank you christian. Thank you all for having us tonight. And yeah, like

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christian said, I'm going to be talking a little bit more in depth about some of the

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definitions of displacement and some of the strategies that have been implemented or are

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part of the suite of tools that can be used to address displacement. So I've never

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used one of these before. Let's see. Perfect. So displacement happens when people are forced

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to move against their will. So that could be for any number of reasons eviction, foreclosure

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of the building in which they're residing, demolition, an increase in rent or

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negligence from landowners or landlords or building managers. It can ultimately disconnect

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people from their existing communities, which has really negative impacts on a wide

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range of things that could be physical, mental and emotional health. Disconnection from

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buildings and services that people frequent before they are displaced. So schools, family,

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friends, churches, all of those things are take a hit when people are forced to move out

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of their neighborhoods. It also affects life chances. So displaced households, if they

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cannot afford to live in their existing neighborhood, are often forced to move to lower

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income neighborhoods where outcomes related to health, education and earning power are

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very different and oftentimes lower or not as positive. And then the graphic on the far

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right side is supposed to kind of capture how displacement also weakens a community's

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political power. So when people are first forced to move out of a certain area, there is less

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influence of that group of the political outcomes in their neighborhoods. So displacement

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really touches a wide range of those aspects of people's lives. Investment induced displacement

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is kind of what the dap in this project is really focused on. It's defined as being triggered

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by economic and speculative impacts of transformative infrastructure development. So

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that can be things like sustainability and resiliency features, improvements to

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mobility, as well as enhancements of parks and open space. And that is a statement

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from a dap displacement avoidance plan that was prepared for the city of fresno

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as part of this same tcc program. So the image on the right shows some of the

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projects that are part of the coachella prospera project and things like increasing

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equitable housing and affordable housing, shared mobility, energy efficiency and

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solar, increasing solar access. All of those things are improvements that as part of

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coachella, prospero will improve quality of life here in the city. And so this

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displacement is really unique to to large amounts of investment in a community. So

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the dap will really hone in on preventing those things so that people who currently live here

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can enjoy the benefits of of these projects. Some of the anti-displacement strategies

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generally fall into four different categories. So these policies, programs, and

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financing tools are often classified as renter protections that might include

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rental assistance, cash assistance, providing education or counseling to tenants, and

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other things like just cause for evictions and then rent stabilization as well. Housing

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production is another category of anti-displacement strategy, so ensuring that there is

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enough housing to house people and increasing the housing stock is is considered another

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method for combating displacement, stock preservation and upgrades.

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basically just means holding on to the housing that does exist and making sure that it remains

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in good condition for people to continue living in. Some of the strategies that fall under that

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category include community land trusts. So like shared ownership of land, as well as

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restricting the ability of buildings to be converted from rental properties to to

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condominiums. And then finally, the fourth category is asset building, which focuses less on

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housing stock, increasing it, preserving it, protecting renters, and more on increasing

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like the financial power of residents. So that could be coaching around like financial

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decision making, lending or loans to to help first time homebuyers purchase and other

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things like lease to purchase programs, things of that nature. So those are the four kind of

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major buckets of anti-displacement strategies that will be looking into as we

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develop the displacement avoidance plan. As part of this project. Okay. And now that

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I've talked a little bit about what displacement is, we also wanted to share how it's

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currently showing up in this part of the state. And so we have some information from a

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report that was published by the california housing partnership that focuses on

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riverside county, this during this current year. And these following slides, pull graphs

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from this affordable housing needs report. But some of the key data points here are that

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54,000 about low income renter households in riverside county do not have access to an

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affordable home state, and federal funding for housing production and preservation in

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riverside county is down by half from 2024, which is pretty shocking. 78% of extremely low

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income households in riverside county are paying more than half of their income on housing

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costs. That's traditionally referred to as housing burden. When people are paying a really

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significant portion of their income on rent. And we have some more graphics about that

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later in the presentation. There are also some figures here about homelessness and the

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ability to accommodate people who are dealing with that experience. And then there's

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also some information here about minimum wage. So renters in the county have to earn at

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least $38.33 per hour, which is greater than the minimum age, minimum wage. Excuse me? In

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order to afford the average monthly rent in the county. This slide talks a little bit

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about the gaps in affordable housing access for renters. So I think this is again the same

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stat from the previous slide. But it shows that low income renter households really do not

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have good access to affordable homes. So on the left hand side, you can see the number of very

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low income individuals and extremely low income individuals who are renters.

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and the gap in the availability of rental homes is quite massive. On the right hand side,

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it's just showing those cost burdened households. So 70%, 78% of extremely low income

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households in the county are paying more than half of their income on housing costs. So

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just a visual representation of the information from that previous slide. This talks a

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little bit about rent costs. And so asking rents in riverside county have increased

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by almost 30% between the end of 2019 and the end of 2024. I think this is not unique to

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riverside county, but globally or I guess nationwide rents are going up and it is hard to

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account for that as people's wages aren't really reflected of that increase. I think this

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is our second to last graph, but again, this shows that minimum wage amount that people

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would need to make in order to pay for the average rental price in in riverside county.

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so it also compares it to the state minimum wage. And like the average amount of money

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that people in certain industries make. So you can see on the fourth line that people

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who work in the home health and personal care industry make about $16.64 on the hour, which

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is more than half the amount needed in order to make that average asking rent payment.

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and then this map is not from the riverside county affordable housing needs report, but it's

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from the columbia screen database, which shows a number of different factors that

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affect disadvantaged communities across the state. And one of the things that it

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focuses on is housing burden. So this is zoomed in, actually, to take a closer look at the

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city of coachella and its surrounding area. And this again is showing that housing

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burden indicator. So it's the percentage of households that are low income and are paying

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more than 50% of their income on rent. So you can see that within the city of coachella,

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housing burden is pretty significant. The darker colors obviously show that that the

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percentage is higher in those areas, and we don't have it exactly called out. Is this a

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laser? Oh no, it's not a laser. It doesn't I don't need I don't need it to be a laser. But we

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don't have the exact boundary of the project area here. But you can imagine that the

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project area boundary is sort of where that small circle is and kind of goes out from there.

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so there is a great amount of housing burden within the project area. And then this

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last map shares affordable housing projects that are currently in the pipeline. And

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it also includes the project status of those developments. It's not interactive here

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because it's on a powerpoint slide, but this is a map, a portal that was created by an

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organization called lift to rise. And they have a good system of tracking affordable

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housing that's coming on and also identifying potential opportunities for future

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affordable housing development. Okay, so that was a lot of information about the sort of

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residential landscape. And we also wanted to share some insights about what

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displacement pressures are that are being experienced by small businesses in coachella. And so

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these insights came out of the conversations that christian mentioned at the beginning of

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the presentation that were had in order to develop the application for the grant. This

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came out of like a stakeholder conversation with a number of business owners in the area. So

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some of the challenges and concerns that people identified were that new code and

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compliance requirements could be expensive, that the processes of getting businesses

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set up and sometimes remodeled often was delayed, that there's a lot of competition between

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smaller businesses and larger operations that are hard to keep up with. That security has

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posed a challenge for small business owners as well, and the impact that the unhoused

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population has been or has had on business operations was also a point that that business

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owners discussed in that focus group two years ago. As far as areas for improvements and

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opportunities for support, business owners discussed the accessibility and

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responsiveness of city officials, improving security measures for businesses, which

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is reflected in that previous slide about challenges, streamlining and accelerating

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the process for business extensions and business plans. Investment in security

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infrastructure. I think a number of the people who participated in this focus

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group were didn't necessarily own the the space in which their business was, and so

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there was discussion of how important it is for actual property owners to maintain

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those spaces and beautify them as well. And then there was also discussion of insurance.

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and then this last kind of category of insights that came out of these conversations were

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around potential policies and programs that business owners felt would be helpful in, in

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lessening the risk of displacement for them. So there was discussion of financial

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assistance or grants that would help with code compliance. There was discussion about

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orientation programs that would be helpful for educating newer business owners on getting a

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business up and running, collaboration with law enforcement around safety and

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security, ensuring that resources are allocated to address the issue of the

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unhoused population in the city. To sort of lessen the impact of that on small businesses, and

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then also a call for meetings or forums where business owners could engage with city

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representatives, which is kind of similar to that bullet point, I think, on the last slide as

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well. And then just a few other things that came out of these conversations that were

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specific to potential policies and improvements. More grant programs, especially for energy

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efficiency. There was mention of solar panels and general improvements, cleaning services,

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streamlined approval for esthetic enhancements, a greater number of events to

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sort of increase awareness about small businesses, and then making sure that there's

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representation and consideration of owner's opinions in city decision

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making. And then finally there was and there's a star next to it because it is a part of this

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initiative as well, was the creation of a small business alliance, where business owners

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could communicate with each other about what they're experiencing, what their

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challenges have been, and a space to sort of be in conversation about those sorts

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of things. Okay. And I am going to talk really quickly about community engagement, which is

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a really key aspect of the dap project as well. And it is focused on these two subgroups,

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residents and small businesses. So like I just said, the small business alliance was something

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that was brought up during that engagement. In 2023. It is being actualized in this

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project. So we are working on forming a small business alliance as part of the dap,

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and the intent of that is to provide a forum like we kind of touched on in the previous

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slide for business owners to share their priorities, discuss common challenges that they

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experience. The objective is also to kind of discuss those things, prioritize what is most

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pressing or important, and then advocate advocate for changes around those topics. There's a

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like a goal to sort of develop lines of communication, I think, amongst business owners as well

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as with city officials, further develop business owners capacity to advocate and. Take

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action around the things that they would like to see that would improve the conditions.

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as business owners in the city strengthening relationships, I think, again, with each other

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and with the city, and then elevating policy programs and funding to the city's attention.

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that would make being a small business owner easier, more attractive and supportive, I

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guess. And then on the left hand side is just an image of sort of the first part of the

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small business alliance that has been completed. We've developed a small business

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alliance charter, which basically just kind of outlines the intent of the group, some

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of the topics that they might address. And yeah, kind of outlines the overall goals and

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objectives of the of the alliance. The other thing that is currently active is a small

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business survey. The intent of this is to understand the challenges, whether they're

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physical, operational or financial, that small business owners are facing. It's also

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intended to collect a little bit more information about the actual property in which

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business owners operate. And so there are some questions on there about how property owner

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or small business owners decided to operate out of a particular location if they've

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ever had to relocate. Why that might have been, how long they've been in a certain place,

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whether they rent or own, etcetera, etcetera. So trying to get a bigger picture or a

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better picture of the conditions that business owners are currently working with. And

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then it also gets some feedback about some potential policies and programs. And optionally,

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business owners can provide information about their their business, if that's like number

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of employees, what kind of work they do, what kind of industry they're in, etcetera, etcetera.

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so that's live now and it will collect responses for the duration of the project to

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really inform some of the conversations that we're having about policy, as well as the

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conversations in the small business alliance. And then the residential group is called

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vecinos de coachella, prospera, and it is a group of five residents who will be kind of

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informing the policies and existing conditions around the residential experience of

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displacement in coachella. So the intent is for the ambassador insights to really

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shape the displacement avoidance plan and form some of the policies and programs that

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will come out of it. These vecinos will also be collecting data from their own

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neighborhoods, doing interviews, surveying, and some of the topics that they might run into

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address or evictions, rent increases, housing conditions and tenant experiences. All of

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those are really big topics. And so I think the other intent of this group is to educate

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ambassadors about some of the things that we've talked about here already, but also provide

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them with the skills to similarly to the sba, advocate for fair housing policies,

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practices and anti-displacement initiatives. So those are our two. Oh, I guess the last thing

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about the vecinos group is that we've also kind of outlined the kinds of themes that we're

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going to be looking at in the sort of first phase of the group. We're going to be doing,

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like I said, this displacement education, really getting people to understand all of the

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things that cause people to be displaced, some of the things that prevent it, and

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understanding like the specific conditions here in coachella, we also are going to be doing

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like training sessions around how to engage with community members. We do engagement all

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the time, but it's not like human nature to know how to do that. And often conversations

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around displacement are sensitive. And so the intent of that part of this program will

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be to really like, make sure that the ambassadors are well equipped to have those

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conversations with people and also city decision making, just overall like capacity building

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for people who are participating. And then finally in like our final sessions,

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we'll be looking at examples of displacement avoidance plans and really thinking about how

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the coachella displacement avoidance plan will materialize. This group will meet monthly.

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that's a list of some of the things that we'll be talking about. And then they will be

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compensated for that participation as well. Okay, I think that's everything for me.

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and I'm going to turn it back over to christian. Thank you, thank you. So that was a lot of

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information that we just threw your way. But I think the biggest takeaways is the city

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is doing something to enhance the lives of residents within the within the project boundary,

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using tcc funding to do that. In order to do this large investment, the state has added

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these guardrails to make sure that we aren't inadvertently causing harm by trying to do

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good. And one of those harms that could be done inadvertently is displacing

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both homeowners, renters and small businesses. So ultimately, this plan, all of the work that

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we're doing is intended to prevent that. Do that while the investment is happening, to

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make sure that we are keeping our ear to the ground of what are the goings and comings of

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possible displacement trends, and ultimately to come to you and ultimately to the city

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council for policies that will then fortify the intention of retaining residents and small

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businesses. So, you know, we'd love to get your insights. We have some questions that might

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guide a conversation, but this is the beginning of this process. And so we're learning.

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you know, corinne was sharing a lot of the stuff that we've been pulling, both at the state

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and the county level. We're now starting to get more granular. What is happening in coachella.

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we also know that as investment is happening, implementation of the tcc, things will start

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changing. So this will be evolving and we anticipate for this process to be really

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understanding and monitoring for the first two years and then looking at implementation

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of these policies and monitoring their effectiveness for the last four or the last

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two, excuse me, for a 4 to 5 year total contract. So we're open to questions. Thoughts.

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yeah. Anything that is coming up to you at this point. Thank you guys so much for the

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presentation. I had a question. So the vecinos de coachella prospera will be used basically

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as an indicator to identify the neighborhoods that are that are being affected or are probably

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a high risk of displacement. Yeah, it'll be a couple of things. I think it'll be an

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opportunity for us to ground truth, what we're finding through polling data and as

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we're finding other sort of more traditional channels of of identifying trends, this group

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will help us also identify things that we won't be able to see just by pulling data. Right.

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like they will be able to tell us if they're starting to see a lot of people moving out in

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their neighborhoods. And so they're going to be the ear to the ground that I was

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mentioning. So they will tell us what is happening in real time. They will also be the

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folks that we go to as we're collecting and finding more information of trends that are

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happening in the city to say is this is this the experience? They will also be the

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conductors of those conversations, because it's easier to talk to your

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neighbors about what your experience is like living in the community. We're really

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going to build the capacity of these five individuals to be those ambassadors in coachella

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that folks can come to with, you know, any sort of challenges with staying in

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place. Awesome. Is there going to be any other way or another indicator to get that data, or

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is it just going to be based on them? No, we'll be well, we're working with key impact is our

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sort of policy expert. So we've just met with them like an hour ago and talking about all of

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the data that we need to start looking at. We're going to be looking at other communities

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comparable to coachella and what they've done and what sort of impacts we're looking at

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previous awardees of the tcc and what sort of impacts the implementation has had, so that

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we can then infer what could possibly happen here. The challenge with the displacement

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avoidance plan happening at the same time as implementation is happening, is that we might not

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be able to see data trends for another few years, so they're going to be ground truthing

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what we're finding through more traditional ways, through maybe the american community survey,

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there are ways for us to see if there have already been any indicators. One thing that

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we're looking at is what have demographics changed within the project area. So we know that

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college education is one indicator. So as more folks with higher education degrees

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come in, rents tend to increase. Also, the different types of ethnicities moving in, who's

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moving in, who's moving out. So we're able to pull all of that. We want to ground truth that

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with this group and then what we're not going to be able to find in real time. That's how

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this group will sort of contribute. Awesome. And I apologize if I missed it in the

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presentation, but if when the vecinos do come across a neighbor that's struggling or

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at risk of displacement, are they going to be offered resources? Yeah, that's a great

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question. So let me go back to our partnerships. In the beginning. Yeah. So and really

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it's me showing my picture. No the fair housing council of riverside county, they will be

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doing tenant mediation. And because that's another big problem they'll be doing,

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they'll be going out to community events. And they have a lot of hud approved

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information that we will actually be taking. And adding the coachella prospera graphic

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identity so that residents can see consistency. This is all part of it. So we're taking

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their content and we're going to disseminate it in the community. And so there's going to be a big push for educating the community and renters on what are their rights, what is

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currently available to them. And then if renters or folks that are being displaced are

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having need fair housing council will step in and they're going to be our partner

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throughout the entire implementation as a service provider. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. Commissioner, do you have any questions or comments for them? I think this looks great.

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I really like the work that you will be doing with small business owners. I think it's

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really important to always keep them with between like arm's length and especially with

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their employees to have that on the on the form as well, because it's you always to get

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down to the wire. It's always good to talk to staff themselves because they're the

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ones that not that the owners don't do the work, but they're the ones that the meat and

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potatoes of the of dish. So no, other than that, I'm really impressed. Excited for the work.

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I think you guys did a good job. Thank you. And I think maybe one thing that we didn't

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communicate is our partnership with kendra and her team and selena and her team. So we've

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been in constant communication. We're not doing this in a silo and then coming and showing up

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here with recommendations. We are involving your staff every step of the way. And as things

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are becoming apparent, we will be looking to them to help us guide and you'll be seeing more

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of us. So this is really the beginning of an ongoing conversation, and eventually

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we're interested in having study sessions, joint study sessions, if possible, with you

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and council. This is really going to take a lot of energy, effort and a lot of great minds

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like the ones in the room now. And so like I said, yeah, it's really the beginning of an

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ongoing partnership with you, all city staff, the community and our team. Thank you. I have

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one quick because my my communications crisis cannot be avoided. It's a project. So if

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the project is to fall short, is there like a crisis plan in place or are we just hoping for

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the best? Yeah. Okay, so I'm speaking I can speak on the displacement avoidance plan as

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part of the coachella prospera. Are you asking like at the larger scale or are you just saying, like within the coachella or the coachella within our our. For instance,

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if displacements become higher than what we thought would be. Yeah. And it comes to a level

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that it's just not manageable anymore. Is there a is there a plan that can be well, this

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this is where you, as an advisory body to council come in. This is why it's important.

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this partnership is important because we are going to be measuring what's happening out

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there and giving you recommendations, how to control that. Ultimately, this is why

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this ongoing conversation needs to to to happen throughout the entire implementation period,

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because we will come to you and say, hey, this is what's happening. Here's what we think

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can be done. Because we've done the research. We've looked at comparable cities like the city

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of coachella. This is what they've done. Maybe we're interested in putting something forward that hasn't been done, but we think is manageable and adequate for coachella. And so

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you all would be considering those policy recommendations, making a recommendation to city

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council ultimately. And and that's what that's what we're hoping that this will be

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awesome. Thank you so much. You're our failsafe. Thanks. Yeah, yeah. We just I guess we

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also had just some questions that, you know, we're hoping to just not that you need to

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answer now, but really to start helping you think on how we're thinking about it. You know,

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we're we're interested in knowing if there are signs of displacement that you all are

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seeing. What or have residents or business owners brought any specific issues to your

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attention. And then you know what you think are anti-displacement priorities of

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residents and business owners as is. And the reason these questions are important is as

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we continue to look and do our research, we want to make sure that we, you know, we

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displacement could be very broad. So we want to refine our research with anything that

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might already be in place. So, you know, we're bringing this to you and we'll be talking to

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the team. If we have any answers to these questions, we'd love to hear them. Okay.

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thank you. At the moment, I don't think so. I just well, now housing is very expensive.

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that I do realize that even in the new homes, like we've seen a lot more multiple families

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living in one same home. And I think those are the you know, it's kind of a sign of a bigger

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displacement, because if a family or two leave the home, the one remaining is kind of

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stays behind with like a $4,000 mortgage. Yeah. Other than that, no, not that I can think of

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right now. Yeah. That's helpful. Yeah, I, I can come back with more thoughts with the next

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presentation and all of this, but I, I would agree with with the chair like I noticed

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throughout the neighborhoods, there's, you know, ten cars per house because there's that many

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people that need to live there. Excuse me, need to live there to, to be able to afford to a

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home. So I think it's really important to make sure that our residents get more independency

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to be able to do these, to have a, you know, a beautiful home and neighborhood on their own

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as a as opposed to always unless they choose to, as opposed to, you know, residing

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with family members or friends and, and things in that way. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I think

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yeah, what you both have brought up is really important. And I think it is helpful for

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us to understand the landscape of coachella residents. And yeah, we'll continue. We'll

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leave these questions with you. If community members are coming and you're hearing any reaction

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to these, we'd love to, you know, hear that from you. And kendra can pass on the message,

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or we can always come back and speak with you all directly. So yeah, thank you so much. Thanks.

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just really quickly, you know what you can expect from us next. In early 2026, we'll be

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meeting with vecinos de coachella, prospera and the small business alliance will be

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doing a policy precedent research with our partner k impact, and we anticipate to

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have something to present to the team in quarter one of next year. And we will begin to do

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community education, outreach and engagement also in quarter one of next year. So you'll

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start seeing us out and about. And please feel free to point residents our way. Okay.

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awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Council.

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woodburn. Today's study session at