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[9:15] discussion about affordability who helps

[9:18] how we have a housing shortage across

[9:22] spum both on the lower end of the market

[9:24] and the higher end of the market so it's

[9:26] a holistic approach that you take to

[9:28] address the C

[9:30] so we'll get a little bit more into this

[9:31] as we give three Senators thank

[9:35] you thank you Jean and thank you for

[9:38] your leadership on all the plan and

[9:40] getting this work going um so our agenda

[9:43] tonight is going to be robust of course

[9:45] and we're going to try not to just

[9:47] present at you but as you saw in the

[9:49] flyer this is a community dialogue and

[9:51] what we mean by that is we want to share

[9:53] information but we also want to gather

[9:55] information and have you guys talking to

[9:57] each other and to us to prioritize what

[10:00] are horable housing needs strategies

[10:03] challenges what you want to get out of

[10:05] these sessions moving forward because we

[10:07] also saw the series this is our first

[10:09] and I want to acknowledge president uh

[10:12] Bas here from the council who I didn't

[10:14] see come

[10:18] in you guys want to say anything or

[10:20] welcome

[10:21] or

[10:25] welcome thank you for coming um so our

[10:29] agenda today is we're gonna have a

[10:30] couple of presentations with David and

[10:32] Sarah Lori and I will talk a little bit

[10:34] about the declaring housing as a human

[10:36] right as resolution that's currently

[10:38] going through our legislative Council

[10:40] process and then we're going to break up

[10:41] into small groups and we'll be able to

[10:43] talk and report back and we'll talk

[10:45] about next steps um this was also I'll

[10:48] say uh published or it's a special

[10:52] meeting of the legislative Council uh

[10:54] Human Services committee we don't have

[10:56] for so we don't have to uh we're not

[10:58] going to have that rules or that process

[11:00] here today because we don't have just

[11:02] wanted to acknowledge that and why that

[11:04] was why would not

[11:06] that here to actually have a meeting um

[11:10] to the next slide so as we get started

[11:13] and before I head it over to David I

[11:15] think we you heard a little bit from the

[11:17] mayor about the importance of affordable

[11:20] housing to the administration and to the

[11:21] legislative Council and if you've been

[11:24] following any of the legislative Council

[11:26] and administration meetings over the

[11:28] past couple of years you've

[11:34] I just wanted

[11:36] tolight what we're be talking about

[11:39] today one is years ago we updated

[11:45] thein and really

[11:49] had a while and because of the

[12:00] that was I'm sure you all

[12:02] remember but

[12:19] alliss

[12:28] don't but we have our issu and

[12:33] soed to

[12:59] was it go somewhere in the middle

[13:04] and um that's one

[13:06] thing updated our flight bed on State St

[13:10] inre for

[13:14] FL AR uh the council allocated $1

[13:18] million to the home respon system and

[13:20] mayor talk a little bit about our hand

[13:23] and what we're doing and the H of that

[13:26] money is that it's a threeyear process

[13:29] at the end we're really hoping that

[13:31] we've created a framework that will be

[13:33] able to sustain long term and we have a

[13:36] better relationship with the expert

[13:48] syach

[13:55] usort um recently we did a rent with the

[13:59] town center and we did a rental registry

[14:01] ordinance um and we're developing a

[14:04] process team team are developing a

[14:07] process now to uh register all of our

[14:10] rental properties so we understand

[14:12] what's out there who the owners are how

[14:15] rental unit really have an understanding

[14:18] of our rental market without that you

[14:20] just W really know what's out there as

[14:22] regard

[14:24] to many SI

[14:29] help

[14:30] understand

[14:33] and to develop a proactive inection

[14:36] program so that we can make sure that

[14:38] all of the units are high quality all of

[14:40] our

[14:44] inity and then the last thing I just

[14:46] wanted to mention is this week the um

[14:50] legislative Council committee pass out

[14:54] resolution declaring hous rank will go

[14:56] through that and what that means a

[14:58] little bit later but that'll come back

[15:00] to Council on the 23rd no 21st um it's

[15:05] for the full committee um and that is

[15:07] really just to bring together that we as

[15:09] a

[15:10] community uh declare that we all

[15:13] residents should have access to Quality

[15:16] accessible affordable housing in the

[15:18] neighborhoods in which they choose so

[15:20] this is some of the work that we've done

[15:22] you the next slide but I'll say we're

[15:25] not there there's so many challenges

[15:27] still and we hand have a very

[15:30] complicated housing market and so some

[15:33] of the David's going to talk about some

[15:34] of these but some of the challenges that

[15:36] we're faced with like the country our

[15:38] housing costs are rising and incomes are

[15:41] not folowing that um and so we got

[15:45] approximately 47% of our renters and 32%

[15:48] of our homeowners are rent Burgin

[15:50] meaning they're paying more than 30% of

[15:52] their income towards their rent um which

[15:54] is a sort of a National Standard and

[15:56] anything more than that you're really

[15:58] making hard choices

[15:59] do I have food do I have transportation

[16:02] do do I get that medical procedure I

[16:04] need or do I pay my rent um those are

[16:08] choices that no nobody should have to

[16:10] make we also have a shortage of

[16:12] affordable housing here in Hampton and

[16:15] as Eugene mentioned at the lowest end

[16:16] and the highest end um at the lowest end

[16:19] there's about 1,500 short uh a shortage

[16:23] of 1,500 units but I one other thing I

[16:26] think is really important as that is

[16:27] that a lot of our stock is also older

[16:31] which means that not only is there a

[16:32] shortage but some of the housing that we

[16:34] do have we've got to look at the quality

[16:37] of that housing and is it safe is it

[16:39] habitable and how do we help ensure that

[16:40] it's quality so that people are living

[16:43] in units that are high quality and so

[16:46] you'll see 1980 60% of before that so

[16:49] that's something we should be keep

[16:50] thinking

[16:51] about homelessness in general across the

[16:54] country is on the rise as well as in

[16:56] Connecticut and and Sarah will talk

[16:58] about that

[16:59] um and I wanted to mention in addition

[17:01] to having homelessness be on the rise

[17:04] we're seeing across the country and in

[17:07] Connecticut that some municipalities not

[17:09] Hampton but some municipalities are

[17:11] moving towards more punitive measures to

[17:14] dealing with homelessness like fines for

[17:17] arresting people for tearing down

[17:19] encampments and just exasperating the

[17:22] issue because those policies they cause

[17:26] more harm generally than they do good

[17:29] and so that is something that we here

[17:31] want to make sure we we're talking

[17:33] about another challenge in Campton as

[17:36] it's across the country is historical

[17:37] race uh racism and red lining um we all

[17:41] know that that is linked uh to housing

[17:44] 100% and so things like access to

[17:47] housing neighborhood

[17:49] segregation um disparities and

[17:51] homelessness and addictions really all

[17:53] of that impacts people of color more

[17:56] than it does other populations so that

[17:59] is something we see here in handon as

[18:01] well and then I just wanted to mention

[18:03] that in addition to sort of these things

[18:05] across the country we're also dealing

[18:08] with issues like uh addressing our new

[18:10] Hall foundations we've all just got many

[18:13] people just got the revaluations and

[18:15] we're all worried about that as well and

[18:17] so these are issues well maybe not um

[18:21] traditionally in communities when we

[18:23] talk about housing but they are in our

[18:25] community so we have to make sure we're

[18:26] acknowledging and addressing those isses

[18:29] as well so I just wanted to like

[18:31] highlight some of our challenges as well

[18:33] to keep that um top of

[18:37] mind all right so I'm gonna be done in

[18:40] like one minute so just this is what

[18:42] we'll discuss tonight uh Eugene went

[18:45] over this but hopefully you'll learn a

[18:47] little bit about what is affordable

[18:49] housing why is it so difficult to find

[18:51] and develop affordable housing um and

[18:54] we're going to talk a little bit about

[18:55] what we mean when we say housing is a

[18:57] human right and what the res solution is

[18:59] and then how we can support our

[19:00] neighbors experiencing homelessness and

[19:02] how we can support support pable housing

[19:04] development in our community you'll see

[19:07] on your table that there are a card not

[19:09] cards as we're talking today if you have

[19:11] ideas shop them down if you have

[19:14] questions chop them down um we'll have

[19:16] some time for Q&A going back and forth

[19:19] but we want to make sure we have your

[19:20] ideas going forward so if there's no

[19:23] cards there if you need more we got T up

[19:25] front and then when we do break out

[19:27] we'll have sheet to collect that

[19:29] information as well so that is our

[19:31] introduction of framing hopefully that

[19:33] gives us a sense of where we're headed

[19:35] tonight um does that give folks a sense

[19:38] of where we're headed

[19:39] tonight a little bit okay um with that

[19:43] I'm gonna hand it over to David who is

[19:45] going to kick us off and sort of an

[19:46] overview of our affordable housing plan

[19:50] um and the work we've done to get there

[19:56] right well good evening very very good

[19:59] to be here uh I'm pretty impressed

[20:02] pretty good turnout for little he uh and

[20:05] I'm not sure the other 14 pounds of

[20:08] could have measured up the way you guys

[20:11] have uh so I'm gonna uh tell you a

[20:14] little bit about my job and what I do

[20:17] and how I do it and then we're going to

[20:19] go through what I like to think of is

[20:21] housing

[20:22] 101 uh which may uh be something that

[20:26] you know already but my guess is that

[20:28] you may a few things and few insights

[20:30] and we'll take some

[20:33] questions as as Sarah said I'm David I

[20:36] am scad's housing consultant scrad south

[20:39] regional House Council of governments is

[20:42] uh the 15 towns in and around New Haven

[20:45] including hamen very diverse set of

[20:48] towns some quite rural some very very

[20:51] Urban settings some Suburban settings

[20:54] each town has its own housing issues own

[20:57] housing market demography

[20:59] is different its typography is different

[21:02] politics is different it housing stock

[21:03] is different so each town has to come up

[21:05] with its own solution and that's why uh

[21:08] my job is to help each town and help

[21:11] them with their particular needs and the

[21:13] resources that they need at scrad uh we

[21:16] have I've been there for five years

[21:18] we've done a number of meetings on key

[21:21] issues they're all recorded the

[21:24] materials are collected it's a library

[21:26] that's available uh mayor and all of you

[21:30] uh so you can uh take advantage of that

[21:33] uh we uh have done a number of tours of

[21:36] homeless uh service facilities uh mixed

[21:39] income housing we've created videos we

[21:41] have a video of mixed income housing

[21:43] four different locations in the region

[21:45] we uh just completed a video uh on the

[21:48] 83g statute again that's just been

[21:50] posted that's available to everybody and

[21:53] we are creating a video now just done

[21:55] did the filming uh of who lives

[21:58] affordable housing because as you know

[22:01] uh in a lot of towns there's resistance

[22:03] to the creation of mixed income and

[22:05] affordable housing because I think the

[22:06] people living in those units drug

[22:08] dealers and gang leaders and have wild

[22:10] parties and you know we know that's not

[22:12] true uh and so we interviewed eight of

[22:15] them and uh we will have that on the

[22:18] video and showing not only how beautiful

[22:20] their apartments are uh but also the

[22:22] development St in and try to disabuse

[22:25] people of the stereotypes that they

[22:27] believe in sometimes are make them

[22:29] resistant to housing creation so I'm

[22:31] going to go through this now uh as I say

[22:34] uh uh just to kind of understand the the

[22:37] key factors and methods that need okay

[22:40] um the right approach and this is the

[22:42] right approach as you can see Town

[22:43] resents come together that's really

[22:46] important okay this is something that

[22:48] you have to do together I like to say

[22:50] always I never tell any Town what to do

[22:53] that's not my place I generally I don't

[22:56] know enough about the town to do it uh

[22:59] but I will tell you what other towns are

[23:00] doing and I think that's important uh

[23:02] because you can pick up some hints some

[23:05] tools some methods some strategies uh

[23:07] that other towns are employing so we'll

[23:09] try to go through some of that uh H what housing is and is it's vital uh if

[23:15] you provide uh a home that is

[23:18] appropriate to a family's needs and is

[23:21] Affordable uh that can provide

[23:24] opportunity to that uh household and

[23:27] those children in

[23:29] uh and let's just go back to

[23:31] them uh and and and it provides comes to

[23:35] the uh the people you need in the

[23:37] community when I was in partnership with

[23:39] strong communities uh we used to say uh

[23:41] strong communities all kinds of people

[23:44] and all kinds of people need all kinds

[23:45] of hous need real range of units not

[23:50] only for the different types of people

[23:52] but as I think all of you know and some

[23:54] of you are as old as I am the old uh

[23:57] over the course of your life you need a

[24:00] different type of unit when you get out

[24:01] of college you're sharing with three

[24:03] friends and after a while you get tired

[24:05] of their beer cans on the floor right so

[24:07] you want your own place and then maybe

[24:09] you meet somebody you want to spend a a

[24:11] partner with and you move in with them

[24:13] and then maybe you get married and then

[24:15] maybe you have kids and then maybe you

[24:17] have more kids and then you need more

[24:19] space and then you get old and you don't

[24:21] want to shovel snow anymore or R Lees

[24:23] and so you need a different kind of

[24:25] place and then you get really old you

[24:26] need a place for services

[24:29] think about it we probably seven places

[24:33] during the of

[24:35] heal

[24:40] thats what what isn't housing isn't

[24:44] difficult

[24:46] understand you need to have the supply

[24:49] to be the demand for the prices go

[24:52] up so so Sarah talked about you being

[24:55] 1500 units so short of you don't

[24:58] necessarily have to create 1500 units of

[25:01] housing you need to create enough

[25:04] housing so Supply then meets the demand

[25:08] and the price comes

[25:09] down okay so 10 people want um tlor

[25:15] Swift tickets and you only have eight

[25:18] tickets they're going to bid up the

[25:20] price all you have to do is create find

[25:23] two more tickets and now you have enough

[25:25] Supply

[25:27] youand so that's it's also not

[25:30] controversial pres will come together

[25:33] and learn talk and answer each other's

[25:37] questions and understand each other

[25:41] thanks um so like I said I think most

[25:44] people in most communities that I've

[25:46] seen are open-minded they're willing to

[25:49] listen uh it's not wrong with them to

[25:52] have say you hear about uh people who uh

[25:57] say not

[25:58] backyard or here's another acronym my

[26:01] banana build absolutely nothing

[26:06] anywhere people don't want to he see

[26:10] anything um think about I don't get down

[26:13] on people get a at first because when

[26:17] you think about it all of us largest

[26:19] check most of us ever

[26:21] write is that check we buy our house

[26:25] right and everything's tied up in that

[26:27] house Family Security children's

[26:30] education their retirement it's not

[26:32] exactly

[26:34] irrational to worry about who's moving

[26:36] in down the block right now you may be

[26:39] wrong about that you may think that it's

[26:41] going to lower your property vales and

[26:43] research shows it does it's bring a to

[26:45] school children SW down School en

[26:49] research examp that's not true it's

[26:52] going to bring Crime or it's to bring a

[26:53] lot of or it's going to

[26:56] ugly but it's not crazy to worry about

[27:00] that that guy has to come to reading

[27:03] Express his

[27:05] concerns most people will listen if they

[27:09] first hear think they've been

[27:12] heard so that's why it's great that

[27:14] you're together and it will be great

[27:16] that you

[27:17] continue to have conversations smaller

[27:20] larger have break out let everybody

[27:24] Express

[27:25] um like I said people people live in a

[27:28] town because they love the town I don't

[27:30] know how many of you how many of you

[27:32] took behavioral psychology in college

[27:35] okay so what you learn if you recall is

[27:39] uh that I'm motivator for people a fear

[27:41] of

[27:42] loss they want whoose their friends or

[27:45] their family or the quality of life in

[27:48] their

[27:49] town and so the idea of who's moving

[27:52] in and who are they going to be and

[27:55] what's it going to look like going to

[27:57] change

[27:59] I love that I

[28:01] live you got deal with

[28:05] that

[28:15] that's so like I say you want to be

[28:18] inclusive you want to build something

[28:21] together uh and and the first step is to

[28:24] learn and you've done this with your

[28:26] portal hous you have a Lear with your

[28:29] has and what it needs and maybe not most

[28:33] important but as important you put it

[28:36] you know the the realtors in the crowd

[28:38] know the location location location well

[28:40] you know that's really true you know if

[28:43] you can find places in town and and a

[28:45] lot of towns in the region are doing

[28:47] this guilford's doing it Madison's doing

[28:48] it uh uh Branford is doing it Grand

[28:52] trying to figure out where can we put it

[28:56] that would be advantageous

[28:59] and that will not change the town in the

[29:02] way

[29:04] people so that's normally on Commercial

[29:07] strips uh along bus lines in the town

[29:11] center near the rail station places

[29:13] where a little more density is tolerable

[29:17] palatable with the structure

[29:21] handle um and you want to promote Choice

[29:23] as I say and you want to deflate mths

[29:25] and we'll get to that a little more in

[29:27] minut

[29:28] and then decide on goals you what's your

[29:30] goal you get a lower cost bur to the

[29:34] town that's a good goal everybody says

[29:37] we need to know exactly how many units

[29:39] need you know what you'll

[29:40] know that you have enough and people are

[29:43] not burden by their housing bus

[29:46] not their familiar with that term you're

[29:50] burdened by your housing bus if you're

[29:52] spending more than 30% when I got my

[29:54] first Department probably your folks

[29:55] told me the same thing my folks said

[29:57] don't spend more than 25% of your

[29:59] monthly income on rent because you need

[30:03] 75% left for food clothing and

[30:06] transportation Health Care maybe once in

[30:09] a while right uh HS to

[30:12] 30% because people need money left over

[30:16] for other necessities but we have too

[30:18] many people in this

[30:20] state and in this town and in a lot of

[30:24] towns that are bured by their housing CL

[30:27] and that's really really bad for them

[30:30] but it's also bad for local Merchants

[30:33] they local merant and it's really bad

[30:36] for the state because as you recall uh

[30:39] the state collects sales tax revenue

[30:41] people are not buying stuff they're not

[30:43] paying sales

[30:44] tax so housing is really important

[30:49] really B for everyone and it's something

[30:51] we have want and of course you know you

[30:53] want to lower barriers 2,000 and allow

[30:56] people to come into your your town is

[30:58] projected by the way to increase uh uh

[31:02] population significantly between 2020

[31:04] and 2040 by that still about 12%

[31:07] something like

[31:11] that so that's why for

[31:15] those you don't have enough supply for

[31:17] those people up

[31:20] price you can probably have more

[31:22] households more people want to be able

[31:26] to uh um what to remember well uh when I

[31:31] was in the partnership with strong

[31:32] communities we came up with the idea

[31:34] that how housing is the foundation of

[31:36] opportunity because if you can live in a

[31:39] community that has high resource

[31:41] schools you can have education success

[31:44] and that doesn't just mean honors

[31:46] classes and at classes maybe you want to

[31:48] have art and Music Theater because not

[31:50] every kid is good CS you want to have

[31:53] schools that offer

[31:55] range family have

[31:58] into

[32:00] community that that has schools that

[32:03] provide resources for different kinds of

[32:05] kids that's great so that's why you want

[32:09] affordable units in a lot of counts so

[32:11] people rich people should be the only

[32:13] people who have

[32:14] choices where to live uh Environmental

[32:18] Quality you want to Avid

[32:19] SP they make use of public transit and

[32:23] infrastructure that's always there it's

[32:25] related to transportation services have

[32:27] people around the train station more

[32:29] people will take the train and then

[32:32] around the train station we get a play a

[32:34] dry cleaner and a place get a suddenly

[32:38] your town will become

[32:40] Destin

[32:43] they uh access to healthare you want

[32:46] housing your transit or your places week

[32:49] and access jobs training shopping and

[32:52] Recreation uh but understand you know

[32:54] there will be differen in opinion and

[32:56] they will remain everybody have

[33:02] next uh why do towns create more housing

[33:04] op well in a state where about 98% of

[33:07] the local Revenue comes from the

[33:08] property

[33:09] tax devop the property because unproved

[33:14] property is not going to bring you a lot

[33:15] of property tax revenue uh you want

[33:17] workers for local employers I am

[33:19] spending a lot of time these days

[33:21] talking the economic development

[33:23] Commissions in different counts because

[33:26] what you begin to understand what

[33:28] employers towns understand is they

[33:32] operate most of them on pretty tight

[33:35] margins they can't afford to raise wages

[33:40] to track workers from other towns so in

[33:42] order for them to fill jobs they need

[33:44] labor pool in their

[33:46] town so employers now are figuring out

[33:49] oh we got to get

[33:52] behind people want housing in this time

[33:55] we have I'm happy to tell you right

[33:58] whenever I get right

[34:02] because it's in their interest have

[34:07] workers used to be some guy drive from

[34:10] five TOS over to take a job down now he

[34:12] can get the job in his he does need to

[34:14] do we're finding the employers Governor

[34:17] says 90,000 job State well you know

[34:20] divide that by 169b and bu pound

[34:27] workers uh Shoppers Appliance for

[34:30] businesses reduce pressure on C Services

[34:33] pleas you know I was in a welcome town

[34:36] the other day I won't name it uh their

[34:37] food pantry is going want they don't

[34:40] realize that they have low income people

[34:42] in their

[34:47] town uh you know your Police Services

[34:50] people are going to have their hands you

[34:53] can't provide housing people are

[34:55] sleeping on

[34:58] uh and like I said meeting the changing

[35:00] needs of count residents

[35:02] thanks uh what are the changing needs

[35:06] elderly people like I say need the

[35:08] downs and guess what if they can't move

[35:12] out of the home that they're living in

[35:13] this is no place for them to move to and

[35:15] remember they want to do it in their

[35:16] town because they spend 40 or 50 years

[35:19] in their friends and their family and

[35:20] the church and the dock or in this town

[35:22] if they can't move out that single

[35:25] family home does go on the market and

[35:27] now you have a shortage of single family

[35:29] homes again the supply is not feeding

[35:31] with man a h increase single family

[35:34] price and that's what we see all over

[35:36] the state uh you want Boomers to

[35:38] downside you want adult children to come

[35:41] home to the count grow up and a lot of

[35:43] parents love their kids and they just

[35:46] they don't want to see them on Easter

[35:48] and Christmas they want to see them

[35:50] Sunday down during the week at the

[35:52] concert or the little weekend uh and

[35:55] like I say to allow key workers you have

[35:58] other options

[35:59] please uh so Connecticut's current

[36:02] housing situation just so you're aware

[36:05] we have the seventh highest median

[36:08] monthly housing prices in

[36:11] State uh in Connecticut 66% about 23 own

[36:16] 34% rent a little different SC Town 61

[36:20] and 39 and it's actually fluctuates I

[36:24] think the latest I saw was this but it's

[36:27] been about

[36:28] 6040 ship and rent

[36:32] um Genie coefficient what is that that

[36:35] is a statistical measure of wealth

[36:38] disparity okay so you know the old joke

[36:41] they tell about statistics and how you

[36:44] can lie with them so they say that a guy

[36:47] who's got his head in an oven and his

[36:50] feed in a bucket of water is on average

[36:55] comfor well you can't just go with that

[36:57] right

[36:58] we have a very wealthy State we are

[37:01] second generally after New York in terms

[37:04] of overall

[37:05] cap but we have huge wealth dispari so

[37:09] we are

[37:11] second that's measure wealth disparity

[37:14] so what does that mean that means we got

[37:16] a lot of Reach

[37:17] people have a lot of Lo people and what

[37:21] are retrieval drive up the price of all

[37:24] goods and services including housing

[37:27] they can afford Tech we'll get to those

[37:30] statistics in a minute so that's why

[37:32] housing very expensive in the state and

[37:35] why a lot of people are by their housing

[37:37] bu 600,000 workers don't ear the housing

[37:40] rage what is that Statewide that's $

[37:42] 3454 cents that's what you have to earn

[37:45] an

[37:46] hour in order to afford a typical two

[37:49] bedroom apartment stay that translates

[37:52] as you can see to about $71,000 year

[37:54] that used to be a lot of money any

[37:59] in this

[38:00] specific

[38:02] U Metropolitan statistical area it's a

[38:06] little lower it's about $32 a change so

[38:09] that translates to about

[38:11] $667,000 a year $67,000 a year is not

[38:15] earned by a lot of occupations in the

[38:18] state that guy or that woman who works

[38:20] in a little machine shop making the

[38:22] crucial part for a helicopter atori or

[38:27] at electric vote Mak

[38:30] $67,000 we those people in the state

[38:34] they need place to live your EMTs your

[38:37] Preschool

[38:38] teachers some of your beginning cops I

[38:41] mean just go down the list there are a

[38:43] lot of occations in the state that

[38:45] aren't paying that

[38:47] exence uh like I said demand and Supply

[38:51] uh Sarah uh uh uh referred to this

[38:54] earlier here's what's happened since the

[38:56] beginning of the pandemic

[38:58] 2019 uh home prices have risen now over

[39:03] 60% in the last year theyve done 60 cl

[39:06] to

[39:07] 70% what that's done is taken people who

[39:11] are low and moderate end of income

[39:14] spectrum and push them into the rental

[39:16] market because they couldn't compete

[39:18] because as you know homes were selling

[39:20] for cash without an inspection so those

[39:24] people couldn't compete they offer you

[39:26] know 10 20 $50,000 more the ab priz to

[39:30] get out did so that pushed people into

[39:32] the rental market which drove up demand

[39:37] there the demand exceeded the supply so

[39:40] rental prices went up 20% and a s

[39:43] pointed out led to

[39:47] evictions that drove almost as up as you

[39:50] hear better knows a lot more than me

[39:53] from

[39:55] Sarah homelessness went

[39:57] uh two years ago 133% then last year 3%

[40:01] then this past year another

[40:03] 13% I got a call from H the service

[40:06] providers that that that Sarah works

[40:08] with saying in the scra region we need

[40:11] another warming shelter can we do

[40:13] something in the western part of near

[40:15] Branford and Eastern part Branford in

[40:18] East Haven and we work with work with a

[40:20] few people and we got a homeless a cold

[40:24] weather this is real and the ri effect

[40:28] is real so the shortage of housing units

[40:32] is a big big problem we have to create

[40:34] more uh the median sales price for a

[40:37] home in Connecticut is uh 440,000 of 10%

[40:40] last year and then uh just the other day

[40:43] the med listing uh was about

[40:47] $360,000 both realtor and vill so what

[40:50] does that mean the old Fanny May measure

[40:52] used to be uh you need to earn about a

[40:56] third of the selling price in order to

[40:57] afford the house so

[40:59] $360,000

[41:01] $120,000 it's a lot of money for a lot

[41:03] of people to be able to own house now

[41:06] they have the rent rent will

[41:10] next why don't we have the housing stock

[41:12] we need basically uh this maybe more

[41:15] than you want to know you know this

[41:17] about two-thirds of towns in the state

[41:20] have created 40% or more of their

[41:22] housing since 1970 what does that mean

[41:25] that means when I was young man in the

[41:29] early 70s and I wanted to buy a

[41:32] home count said great and they build

[41:35] foot bab

[41:37] generation and a guy would come in and

[41:39] he'd buy a 40 acre cornfield in a town

[41:42] and tell the town I want to put 40

[41:44] Colonials each of those Acres or one per

[41:47] acre and uh s great and the goty built

[41:51] them in 18 months and he sold him about

[41:52] six months and everybody was happy and

[41:55] that was great for about 40 years of

[41:57] 2010 when the stars lined up because in

[42:01] 2010 we had a huge number of Baby Bo

[42:05] beginning to retire and their Millennial

[42:08] children were getting out of college and

[42:10] they both needed the same kind of M

[42:13] family unit was one of the downsizes and

[42:16] the Millennials not only didn't have a

[42:19] lifestyle where they wanted a single

[42:20] family home but they also had enormous

[42:24] debt Connecticut is about

[42:26] 13 education that about $36,800 and

[42:31] believe me if you've been to private

[42:33] school or any kind of graduate school

[42:34] it's north of them and so those

[42:37] Millennials even if they could get a

[42:40] mortgage didn't want to take on any more

[42:43] de so suddenly you had

[42:47] Millennials and their parents all one

[42:50] from the same kind of

[42:52] unit which most of towns getting Happ

[42:55] and that is the beginning of the housing

[42:57] crisis not only in the state but

[43:00] Nationwide okay so as a result we got

[43:04] almost three quarters of town had 70%

[43:06] single family this town's a little

[43:08] better only about 60% really in better

[43:11] shap than most

[43:14] towns not

[43:16] enough so now you have a lot of suburbs

[43:20] in the state looking to make changes and

[43:23] looking to find location where they can

[43:25] build

[43:27] extend they can 10 15 20% set

[43:32] aside

[43:35] next

[43:36] uh so a little bit more about housing

[43:39] the average household budget 32% is

[43:42] spent on housing another

[43:44] 19% on Transportation but if you can

[43:48] live within a half mile of mass transit

[43:51] that 19% go down to 9% there 10

[43:55] percentage points in housing they can

[43:57] buy more clothing they can buy more food

[44:00] they can buy a movie ticket once in a

[44:02] while so if you can build housing your

[44:04] Transit that's a really good thing um

[44:07] energy costs used to be between 6 and 12

[44:10] electric costs are up high so it's

[44:12] probably a little higher than that uh

[44:14] then of course if you have trout here

[44:17] means that can be Clips uh even your

[44:21] housing C that's why the governor spent

[44:24] good part up to the State of the State

[44:25] PS talk about uh helping on Child Care

[44:29] uh 28 municipalities uh where uh 10% or

[44:33] more of the the housing stock is income

[44:35] restricted but that means 141 have less

[44:39] than 10% and that's a problem uh you

[44:42] guys know about Alice United Way of

[44:44] Connecticut does its Alice study some of

[44:46] you know Alice is an acronym that stands

[44:49] for asset limited income constraint

[44:51] employ what we used to call I think

[44:54] delicately the Working Poor

[44:57] these are

[44:58] people who go about their business they

[45:02] go to work they feed their kids they do

[45:05] the best they can uh they're invisible

[45:09] because they don't ask for a lot uh but

[45:13] Mom's hours get cut at the Walmart where

[45:16] the carburetor goes or the water heater

[45:18] goes and suddenly they can't make it and

[45:22] they wind up at Food Pantry first and

[45:24] then they wind up uh at a shelter

[45:27] okay uh there are a lot of those people

[45:30] in in uh uh the state uh 140 towns have

[45:34] at least 20% pal households andon has

[45:38] more andon has about

[45:41] 37% okay like I said these people are

[45:45] invisible largely but they are there so

[45:49] don't

[45:51] uh you think that just because you don't

[45:53] see that on bread line that they're not

[45:56] having time nice

[45:59] one uh so what factors should you

[46:03] consider uh you got to bring prices down

[46:05] you do with more Supply uh and you

[46:08] provide subsidy where you can subsidy is

[46:10] not something that I'm sure mayor would

[46:13] tell you towns are not flush and they

[46:15] can't be handing out uh cash to

[46:18] developers but towns can do allow more

[46:21] density the more density you allow uh

[46:23] the easier it is to develop your out the

[46:26] de if you can uh reduce the parking

[46:29] requirement for a developer uh every square foot that he doesn't have

[46:34] to devote uh to a car he can devote to a

[46:37] housing unit uh there are other ways uh

[46:40] that that counts can help the Dos U

[46:43] their materials labor land and now

[46:45] Insurance costs are way high I read I

[46:48] ran into a development in juster the

[46:50] real the other day there's been a lot of

[46:52] development in the state helping his

[46:54] insurance costs are up between 20 25%

[46:56] this

[46:58] year we all know about home insurance

[47:01] have SE huge tragedy in

[47:03] California so uh developers are having a

[47:06] hard time we have to do the best we can

[47:09] um density is tolerable and advantageous

[47:12] like is said uh in many places uh but

[47:16] affability is not as valuable in some

[47:18] places you know honestly I talk to Ral

[47:19] towns and say you can it's great if you

[47:21] build affordable units in your town but

[47:23] if that poor resident has to buy uh an

[47:26] old slumper for $500 again it's 8 miles

[47:29] to the gallon and breaks down every two

[47:31] weeks I'm not sure we've done them a

[47:33] favor it's really better to create

[47:35] affordability close to jobs and training

[47:38] and transportation and shopping uh so

[47:42] and and you know High resource schools

[47:44] um uh and we can also reduce squ and

[47:47] auto emission as an enhancement as

[47:49] Transit by uh thinking about that next

[47:52] one um and like I say it's all about you

[47:55] guys nobody should dictate to you guys

[47:58] should come together and do this scrad

[48:00] is uh facilitating Community

[48:03] conversations all over the region we

[48:06] have people who will bring together

[48:08] everyone and let that guy who's a little

[48:11] nervous about who's going to move into

[48:12] his community come and express himself

[48:15] get his questions answered okay let

[48:18] people come

[48:20] together other Build Together towns are

[48:23] creating housing committees some towns

[48:25] say I we want to create affordable

[48:27] housing committee you know what I say

[48:28] don't call it an affordable housing

[48:30] committee call it a housing committee

[48:33] because what you want to do is stress

[48:36] universality we all have housing needs

[48:39] this shouldn't just be about should be

[48:42] principally about low inome people who

[48:45] by the housing bus but a lot of people

[48:47] need housing I learned from my son who

[48:50] some of you know that the way FDR got

[48:52] social security pass is guess what he

[48:54] made it for everybody

[48:57] if he had just made it for low income

[48:59] people might not have passed to Congress

[49:02] so your town wants to think about

[49:04] everyone's hous because as they say they

[49:07] change that's we way to get everybody

[49:10] into

[49:11] conversation and like I said we're

[49:13] creating videos uh surveys webinars we

[49:16] can share all that stuff next like

[49:19] this uh you got to combat

[49:22] stereotype misconception um everybody

[49:26] says you build multif family hous you're

[49:28] going to get a million school kids well

[49:30] that's

[49:34] marar rord university did the research

[49:37] almost 20 years ago and it's been worn

[49:39] out Time After Time by development after

[49:42] development think about it the

[49:44] one-bedroom unit R found gets

[49:49] 0.04 public school age children or four

[49:53] public school age children for every1

[49:55] bedroom unit

[49:57] build CU who what parent is going to

[50:00] live in a one-bedroom unit with a child

[50:02] just doesn't Happ I've seen that one

[50:04] time 24 years of doing this work

[50:08] two-bedroom unit

[50:10] 0.27 or in other words one in every four

[50:13] two-bedroom units and again it's

[50:16] intuitive two-bedroom unit is going to

[50:18] be two single sharing or Grandma who

[50:20] wants a second bedroom for the grandkids

[50:22] when they come on the weekend or a young

[50:24] couple that wants a second bedroom as an

[50:26] office and then for their friends when

[50:27] they come visit and one out of four

[50:28] times be a parent with child three

[50:31] better get 1.38 start to get more but

[50:34] believe me in development after

[50:36] development you just don't get many

[50:40] school kids don't let people tell you

[50:42] that property values MIT did a study in

[50:46] 2008 bourban Institute did a study in

[50:51] 2022 beautifully designed multif family

[50:54] housing which is now not lower

[50:58] neighboring property values the research

[51:00] shows it and you can ask pretty much

[51:02] every assessor in state doesn't happen

[51:05] don't believe that quality of life

[51:08] doesn't bring people who live income

[51:12] restricted people work unfortunately

[51:16] just don't get paid that

[51:19] much Poli and then like I said the

[51:22] design density everybody thinks it's the

[51:24] density and they imagine father Village

[51:26] of cre IO 20 story building Nam cind

[51:29] block on the walls hanges on the ground

[51:33] bullets flying through the air that's

[51:34] just not

[51:35] true I'll show you some pictures in a

[51:38] minute indicate

[51:41] that uh I already talked about these

[51:43] numbers we can go to the next

[51:49] one uh next one

[51:51] please uh yeah I mean we know from from

[51:55] uh you know Rand at Harvard they've done

[51:59] you know again it's not quite believe

[52:03] kids who go to High resource schools do

[52:06] better on the SATs they learn more and

[52:09] so we have to give families the

[52:12] opportunity to move to the school

[52:15] district that works for their child you

[52:17] I live in West Harford my son was not a

[52:20] sports guy he was not a tough guy he was

[52:23] not a popular guy he was a theater and

[52:25] music guy

[52:27] and if he had been able to go to Whole

[52:29] high school there are other kids like

[52:31] him if he had to go to some other high

[52:34] schools in the state he might have been

[52:36] bullied or shun to the side he went to a

[52:40] high school because we could afford to

[52:42] live in a town that had a high school

[52:43] that had what he needed and he's lost so

[52:47] families just because they low mod

[52:50] income should not be stuck with very few

[52:54] choices they should be able to go places

[52:57] where uh mom and dad can get jobs and

[53:00] training where the children get the

[53:02] education that they next one

[53:06] please so questions and I'm almost done

[53:09] that are relevant you got to think about

[53:10] what is Affordable house you all got

[53:13] some FAQs fre ask questions on your

[53:15] tables there that can answer some of

[53:17] those uh how important is naturally

[53:19] uring housing that's housing that some

[53:22] people think is Affordable but it may

[53:23] not be affordable to everybody uh if

[53:26] Supply it's not bad but unless it's

[53:29] income restricted it's not going to

[53:31] remain affordable for people so that's

[53:33] the important thing to remember um what

[53:37] should we uh seek to learn from other

[53:38] towns experience a lot some towns have

[53:42] similarities but no town is exactly

[53:44] alike see that'll look at that

[53:47] next um what tools uh should we measure

[53:51] so maybe the number of B families in the

[53:54] town maybe the percentage of households

[53:57] that are bured by their housing cost how

[53:58] can we lower development cost like I

[54:00] said density relaxing the parking

[54:03] requirement uh and again that's going to

[54:05] be development by development location

[54:08] by location Lu you have terrific people

[54:11] who I know in this town who are doing

[54:13] the planning and the zoning and the

[54:14] administration and they'll do what they

[54:16] can I'm sure to help developers when

[54:18] they can um no where the affordable

[54:21] housing is in town and then here's the

[54:23] last question people say to me um our

[54:25] Town's built out

[54:27] we have no room to build anymore and I

[54:29] say there's no such thing as buil out if

[54:33] there was you'd never see a crane in

[54:35] manhatt

[54:36] okay housing buildings get knocked down

[54:40] there are a few homes in Manhattan for

[54:42] the 1600s and they save for historical

[54:45] leads but guess what the rest of them

[54:47] got knocked down and they build other

[54:48] stuff so you can look at this

[54:50] interesting and I'll leave you with

[54:53] this a couple years ago Eugene knows

[54:56] this we had a firm come down to the bus

[54:58] to help handon and other towns create

[55:00] their affordable housing PL I drove him

[55:02] around and run the SE we passed one of

[55:04] those old strip malls you guys have seen

[55:06] them six to eight stores built in the

[55:09] 50s right three of the storefronts are

[55:12] vacant I said has anybody thought about

[55:14] the idea that of approaching landlords

[55:18] of those old strip malls say when the

[55:20] Lees are up on the other three how about

[55:23] we knock this down Reon for multi hous

[55:27] typically it's on a commercial strip or

[55:29] bus line be a great place to put housing

[55:31] nobody would be upset about it it would

[55:33] mess up a neighborhood he said not only

[55:35] have they thought about it but the

[55:37] metropolitan area planning Council which

[55:38] is the regional planning agency in the

[55:40] Boston area about 100 towns in study and

[55:43] found that if they knock down just

[55:47] 10% of the old strip malls and they can

[55:50] create 120,000 units of housing so the

[55:53] towns which don't have Redevelopment

[55:55] authorities like big cities do have to

[55:58] begin thinking in those terms just

[56:00] because something's there now doesn't

[56:02] mean it always has to be there we can

[56:04] redevelop okay so think about that next

[56:08] slide okay here so here are a few

[56:10] examples of towns that build beautiful

[56:14] uh affordable mixed income housing Canan

[56:17] next

[56:20] Avon these are all upper uh income towns

[56:24] next pleas uh sonton that was actually

[56:27] built by our current Commissioner of

[56:30] House s moscara next please Farmington

[56:34] it's duplexes really town houses very

[56:37] nice next

[56:40] bfield next South witer these are

[56:43] elderly units these are actually about

[56:45] 40 years old and and I think a lot of

[56:47] elderly units now are being built and

[56:49] not uh steps which I think is probably

[56:52] good next this is Fairfield uh next one

[56:58] wng single family you may have seen this only up about two exits on the

[57:03] Meritt Parkway it's called oo Village

[57:06] and it was a uh light industrial

[57:09] property uh uh and it was uh friendly

[57:14] 83g and they built 80 of these 1600 foot

[57:18] single family homes and uh they're

[57:21] actually freestanding condos because you

[57:23] get if you buy one you do all your

[57:25] landscaping and about a 6ot wide strip

[57:27] around the home and the rest of the area

[57:29] is taken care of by the property manager

[57:31] and it's 30% of the units are income

[57:33] restricted and it looks better today

[57:35] than it did one the first bu because the

[57:36] landscape Allon and the property

[57:38] management

[57:39] isur

[57:41] next uh well that's

[57:44] me happy to talk to you uh I don't know

[57:46] if we have time for questions now or you

[57:48] want to wait till

[57:50] later okay I one real quick what's the

[57:53] 830 G

[57:57] you you have you have the frequency

[57:59] asked question so please into that it's

[58:02] there yeah

[58:12] and

[58:15] yes I have to B you all good night and

[58:18] go clean up my kid

[58:20] puke rather be all of

[58:34] so I'm Sarah Fox I'm CEO of the

[58:36] Connecticut Coalition and homelessness

[58:37] and I'm really pleased to be here with

[58:39] you all today um this community

[58:41] discussion is so critically important um

[58:45] I have slides which we're not going to

[58:47] go through because I'm gonna repat

[58:48] myself to 10 minutes so we can have some

[58:50] lot of critical pieces of conversation

[58:52] um but I want to say this to you you I

[58:57] um I have a three-year-old and upside

[59:00] old my wife and I are very proud of our

[59:03] family and when I walked my kids out

[59:06] today school I made sure they had their

[59:08] hats they had their gloves they had

[59:11] their boots um and they had everything

[59:14] they could to stay

[59:16] warm yesterday I had a call with an

[59:20] Outreach worker in New Haven and he

[59:22] shared with

[59:23] me that and I get emotional I can't help

[59:26] it but these are the stories I deal with

[59:28] every day um that he and his team are

[59:32] driving around and putting blankets and

[59:36] hand warmers on people who are outside

[59:39] sometimes passed out leaving on our

[59:42] streets for me as a person who's

[59:44] experienced homelessness I will tell you

[59:47] that the impact of that is great and

[59:50] sometimes it makes me question our

[59:53] entire Humanity as a state um and I

[59:56] think that the conversations that we're

[59:58] having here about who we are about how

[1:00:01] we are and the places that we live and

[1:00:04] the neighbors we need to care for

[1:00:06] because they're just like every single

[1:00:08] one of us I know many moms across the

[1:00:12] state who are driving their kids to

[1:00:16] school then they're driving their kids

[1:00:18] to daycare driving their kids to school

[1:00:21] um they're going to work um and they're

[1:00:23] returning to their car to sleep at night

[1:00:26] that's a reality for some of our

[1:00:28] families we know that there are

[1:00:30] approximately on every day um every day

[1:00:32] 5,000 people our neighbors across the

[1:00:35] state experiencing

[1:00:37] homelessness we know that there are

[1:00:39] 9,000 people even just 900 I'm sorry I

[1:00:43] just really like blew the number um 900

[1:00:46] people experiencing unchild

[1:00:49] homelessness and 500 children

[1:00:52] experiencing

[1:00:54] homelessness we also know that Across

[1:00:58] the Nation we've seen an 18% rise over

[1:01:01] the last year in

[1:01:04] homelessness in Connecticut we've seen a

[1:01:06] 133% rise however over the past couple

[1:01:09] of years we've faced huge challenges

[1:01:12] across the state and so many of the

[1:01:15] housing issues that David spoke to

[1:01:18] impact us and the homeless response

[1:01:21] system in ways that I cannot even

[1:01:23] describe prior to the pandemic

[1:01:27] we had people sort of coming into our

[1:01:30] system we were the homeless response

[1:01:33] system so the network of care that we

[1:01:35] provide people experiencing housing in

[1:01:37] security and homelessness they come into

[1:01:39] our system we work collaboratively

[1:01:41] across the homeless response system with

[1:01:43] providers and case managers and people

[1:01:46] doing hard work every day to connect

[1:01:48] people to housing options and we were

[1:01:50] able to have a constant flow we weren't

[1:01:52] making huge strides but we were making

[1:01:54] big enough strides to improve the

[1:01:56] quality of life for many today it looks

[1:01:59] very different post pandemic all of the

[1:02:03] challenges that David described are

[1:02:06] having a huge impact on who we are and

[1:02:08] how we do business in the homeless

[1:02:10] response system today babies are

[1:02:13] spending their first year of their life

[1:02:15] in shelter that is their home we have

[1:02:19] people who are working making $50,000 a

[1:02:22] year which is a lot more than sum

[1:02:26] earnings and they're sleeping in their

[1:02:28] cars and this is in every single

[1:02:31] Community across the state this isn't

[1:02:33] you know this issue is not just a New

[1:02:37] Haven issue it's not just a Harford

[1:02:38] issue it's an everyone issue and as the

[1:02:42] housing landscape changes we do not have

[1:02:45] the right portfolio of housing to help

[1:02:48] our most vulnerable nor even those who

[1:02:51] are in our Workforce we know in the

[1:02:54] homeless response system 82% of our own

[1:02:59] Workforce cannot afford a one-bedroom

[1:03:03] apartment we also

[1:03:05] know that in areas like Fairfield County

[1:03:09] 22% of people providing critical

[1:03:12] services to people experiencing

[1:03:14] homelessness are actually either housing

[1:03:17] insecure or homeless

[1:03:19] themselves and this isn't just in the

[1:03:22] homeless response system we have many people in providing critical roles

[1:03:27] all essential roles all across every

[1:03:30] single Community who are grappling with

[1:03:33] housing insecurity and while we sit here

[1:03:35] today and we stand here um I'd say If

[1:03:37] you think about you know your family um

[1:03:42] and you think about you know I I talked

[1:03:44] to so many people across the state who

[1:03:45] say you know my kids are never moving

[1:03:48] up my kids are just permanent residents

[1:03:52] um and it makes a lot of sense because

[1:03:55] there is no to move too and that has an

[1:03:58] impact

[1:03:59] on on all that we do all that we are as

[1:04:03] stat um so one of the things that Sarah

[1:04:06] spoke to earlier was um some of the

[1:04:09] harsher penalties we're seeing across

[1:04:10] the state some of the reactionary

[1:04:13] policies that are taking place because

[1:04:15] of this increase in

[1:04:16] homelessness and um and it is happening

[1:04:20] um we're seeing people who you know

[1:04:22] people um Brothers sister sisters moms

[1:04:27] um who are outside um many elderly who

[1:04:31] have never been homeless before in their

[1:04:33] lives whose rent is increased who are

[1:04:36] going to their cars um I'm getting

[1:04:38] record and I I get so many calls from um

[1:04:41] elderly agencies um from area agencies

[1:04:43] on Aging um of people who are really

[1:04:46] seriously concerned about the amount of

[1:04:49] people who are you know who are older um

[1:04:53] and have no place to go no place to home

[1:04:56] anymore because they're Rees um and I don't want to be Doom in Gloom

[1:05:02] it's not even who I am I have hope um

[1:05:06] you know I have been working at CCH the

[1:05:09] Connecticut Coalition then homeless

[1:05:11] since

[1:05:12] 2011 I um I have seen what we can do as

[1:05:16] a state when we have housing when we

[1:05:19] have resources and we have services and

[1:05:21] we can do amazing things we actually

[1:05:23] decreased chronic homelessness in this

[1:05:25] state

[1:05:26] by

[1:05:27] 73% when we were at the peak of our

[1:05:29] performance and it felt fantastic we had

[1:05:32] people who had been out in their cars

[1:05:34] for five years who people said they

[1:05:36] would never be successful in housing and

[1:05:39] they were successful in their housing

[1:05:41] they started their lives over so I stay

[1:05:45] in this job because I know we can do it

[1:05:47] I know we must do it and I know it's

[1:05:49] imperative for the entire state that we

[1:05:50] improve our Quality of Life by if by

[1:05:53] increasing our housing stock and

[1:05:56] ensuring that we are serving those who

[1:05:59] are in housing crisis and experiencing

[1:06:02] homelessness today because with every

[1:06:04] person that we house it causes a

[1:06:06] positive risle effect that impacts every

[1:06:08] single one of us we increase potential

[1:06:10] and capacity for everyone and so I'm GNA

[1:06:15] um I am very available um and I'm happy

[1:06:19] to continue this conversation I really

[1:06:21] appreciate the work that's taking place

[1:06:23] here and the comp compassion approach to

[1:06:27] housing insecurity and homelessness it

[1:06:29] means so much and I think handen could

[1:06:31] really be a leader not only here in the

[1:06:34] state but Across the Nation and how to

[1:06:36] build and move towards the state that we

[1:06:39] need to be um tomorrow um we have a

[1:06:43] press conference at 12:30 at the

[1:06:45] legislative office building and we're

[1:06:47] kicking off our legislative campaign um

[1:06:50] and we're going to be asking for $33.5

[1:06:52] million um for the homeless respons

[1:06:55] system focus on prevention preventing

[1:06:58] homelessness before it begins investing

[1:07:00] in the crisis response system and

[1:07:02] ensuring that we have well resourced

[1:07:04] organizations and weid staff who can do

[1:07:07] this job and help us get it done and

[1:07:09] that we are moving towards having the

[1:07:12] housing and the services we need to

[1:07:14] ensure everyone has the opportunity to

[1:07:16] thrive so if you're interested in

[1:07:19] getting involved if you're interested in

[1:07:20] having these conversations about how we

[1:07:23] can do this differently um I'm very

[1:07:25] happy to connect so with that I'll sit

[1:07:28] down and let us move on to the next

[1:07:38] peie all right so the next piece of our

[1:07:41] agenda is we're going to talk a little

[1:07:42] bit about things that we all can be

[1:07:45] doing together as a community so we've

[1:07:47] got some background of from David and

[1:07:49] Sarah of there's big picture what's out

[1:07:51] there and how approach this work so what

[1:07:55] I want to do is one area that we think

[1:07:58] you all could help us participate in is

[1:08:01] the Town Council has a resolution that

[1:08:03] they're looking at to declare housing is

[1:08:07] right and what we are doing with

[1:08:12] that what we're doing that is declaring

[1:08:16] housing as a human

[1:08:17] right what that has sort of nine

[1:08:20] principles that we are outlining in that

[1:08:23] and the first is declaring that everyone

[1:08:25] in h all residents in

[1:08:27] hampon have the right to an accessible

[1:08:30] affordable quality place to uh call home

[1:08:33] and commun their choice but we also

[1:08:36] recognize we move to the next slide I'm

[1:08:38] very quickly on this if we want to have

[1:08:40] time for your

[1:08:41] conversation that this is going to take

[1:08:43] resources we've heard from David some of

[1:08:45] like the work that goes into this and

[1:08:46] the development so that we want to

[1:08:48] maximize resources and not just

[1:08:50] resources here in Hampton but we want to

[1:08:52] have Federal resources State resources

[1:08:54] and really be looking at how we can

[1:08:56] bring those to Hampton to build more

[1:08:59] affordable housing more quality housing

[1:09:01] and that includes State programs like

[1:09:03] home or flex and and things like that

[1:09:06] next Slide the third principle is that

[1:09:08] we're really going to Center equity and

[1:09:10] choice around uh housing as a human

[1:09:12] right and making sure that um we're

[1:09:14] addressing historical disparities

[1:09:17] historical racism and really um

[1:09:19] inequalities that exist for folks with

[1:09:21] disabilities and making sure that it's

[1:09:23] centered inly the four principle of the

[1:09:28] resolution is around um what we talked

[1:09:31] about experiencing homelessness earlier

[1:09:33] and that we want well we are very proud

[1:09:36] of hton and that we do not use a law

[1:09:39] enforcement approach when we uh have

[1:09:41] encampments or we come across people

[1:09:43] experienc homelessness and that we've

[1:09:44] got a social worker within our Police

[1:09:46] Department who really helps engage with other social services and we want

[1:09:50] to commit that our town is going to

[1:09:52] continue to do that particularly as

[1:09:55] um other towns have moved to other uh

[1:09:59] fines and arrests and we want to commit

[1:10:01] to not doing that and really using

[1:10:02] evidence based

[1:10:04] practices next we have um urging our

[1:10:07] state legislation particularly we have

[1:10:10] state represent Suite here to a pass

[1:10:12] State legislation that will help us to

[1:10:14] do more and enable us to be able to to

[1:10:17] have an ordinance that we wouldn't do

[1:10:19] these things and to have um State

[1:10:21] legislation around um arrest not using

[1:10:24] legal approach

[1:10:26] six is um making sure that uh people

[1:10:31] experiencing homelessness are free of

[1:10:32] discrimination based on their housing

[1:10:34] status that they have access to public

[1:10:35] places and spaces just like everybody

[1:10:37] else does um

[1:10:40] seven is uh helping as we talked before

[1:10:44] about the homelesses resp response

[1:10:45] system that we're really developing that

[1:10:47] over the next few years and we're

[1:10:48] working across our agencies have been

[1:10:50] the town to do that and with our uh

[1:10:53] community members

[1:10:55] eight is leveraging additional resources

[1:10:58] and then nine is um is working with our

[1:11:01] delegation again to uh help enable

[1:11:04] tenant protections and have state

[1:11:06] enabling legislation we're very limited

[1:11:08] at the municipality and what we can do

[1:11:09] around uh tenant protections and so we

[1:11:12] want to make sure that we want to ask

[1:11:13] our state delegation to be able to allow

[1:11:16] off to be able to do more by passing the

[1:11:19] legislation so the last slide is like

[1:11:22] this resolution you can find it online

[1:11:24] on our website

[1:11:25] um but we are we passed it out of

[1:11:28] committee on the 7th and the next step

[1:11:30] is to go to full council meeting on

[1:11:31] January 21st and if you'd like we'd love

[1:11:34] to hear your thoughts on the resolution

[1:11:36] and how you if you support it if you

[1:11:38] want changes if you have comments um so

[1:11:41] you can submit that to lcu input ham.com

[1:11:45] and you can do that all the way up until

[1:11:46] 3 pm on the day of the meeting so please

[1:11:49] uh reach out to us and let us know your

[1:11:51] thoughts and it's always great if you

[1:11:52] support it to come out and let us know

[1:11:55] that that way we can informs our

[1:11:57] discussion so we talked a lot at you

[1:12:00] guys and we really apologize for that

[1:12:01] but the first meeting of any of these

[1:12:03] things I feel like it's really level

[1:12:04] setting and ground setting so God it's

[1:12:07] really important to kind of have that

[1:12:09] level setting you but now what we want

[1:12:11] to do uh for a few minutes is have you

[1:12:14] guys all take what you heard and talk

[1:12:17] together so uh yeah so we have small

[1:12:20] group we small group discussions and

[1:12:22] then have your report out and you'll see

[1:12:23] you're at tables um and that was

[1:12:25] intentional so you have on your table a

[1:12:28] pad and we will pass around a worksheet

[1:12:31] but if you could just talk amongst

[1:12:32] yourselves about these four questions

[1:12:34] you know what are your priorities to

[1:12:36] ensuring all HED residents have quality

[1:12:38] homes that are accessible and affordable

[1:12:41] and in need of of choice what challenges

[1:12:44] or concerns do you have or do you see

[1:12:46] that we need to address as a community

[1:12:48] what are some opportunities that we can

[1:12:50] build upon and then what ideas and

[1:12:52] topics would you like to see address

[1:12:54] that future community sessions either a

[1:12:56] learning or Community dialogue sessions

[1:12:58] things that we should be talking about

[1:13:00] together in problem solving together

[1:13:03] we're going to pass around these sheets

[1:13:05] you can tackle all questions or one

[1:13:07] question but we'll spend around 10

[1:13:09] minutes in our groups and then I'll ask

[1:13:12] we'll go around at the very end and if

[1:13:14] folks can just kind of share together

[1:13:16] what you talk one thing that you talked

[1:13:18] about and we'll be taking notes and we

[1:13:20] can collect these afterwards so that we

[1:13:22] have that information and we can be um

[1:13:25] using that for future

[1:13:28] sessions okay does that sound good

[1:13:30] everybody yes sorry I was wondering I

[1:13:34] have one question about the

[1:13:37] presentation discuss when at the very

[1:13:41] beginning of the presentation there's

[1:13:43] really B data about um the percentage of

[1:13:47] renters that that we have then also that

[1:13:50] are earning less than um 30% or where

[1:13:55] their rent is more than 30% of their

[1:13:57] income do we know or is there a way to

[1:14:00] get information I guess Town specific

[1:14:02] not necessarily Statewide but the number

[1:14:06] of uh homeowners whose mortgages are

[1:14:09] more than 30% or is there a way that we

[1:14:12] have is there a way to see what that

[1:14:14] information is specifically for I guess

[1:14:18] yeah it's about 29% of homeowners are

[1:14:22] burdened by their hous L and you can if

[1:14:26] you go to the uh partnership to strong

[1:14:28] community's website which is PSC

[1:14:31] housing.org

[1:14:32] and uh look for their housing data

[1:14:35] profiles every town there a housing data

[1:14:38] profile for every town in of the numbers

[1:14:41] of people both with mortgages and

[1:14:43] without mortgages who are by their

[1:14:45] housing cost home owners as

[1:14:49] well thank

[1:14:52] you great great question clear I just

[1:14:56] like to point out that leaving 10

[1:14:57] minutes from this when we're after that

[1:14:59] 8:30 is really silly you've given us a a

[1:15:03] long presentation and we got 10 minutes

[1:15:06] to talk to each other and give you back

[1:15:08] our input can we give back input to Mr F

[1:15:11] perhaps I mean is there a website or

[1:15:14] something that we can give back input to

[1:15:17] thought about it so we have cards up

[1:15:18] your eyes cards up here with our

[1:15:20] information on them and we apologize we

[1:15:22] didn't want we didn't mean to leave just

[1:15:24] a 10 minutes but presentations went

[1:15:26] longer we started a little bit late as

[1:15:27] people were coming in but yeah there's

[1:15:29] are we have cards up here there's no

[1:15:31] cards at your table that we're going to

[1:15:34] be collecting for information and then

[1:15:36] the next time we get together we can

[1:15:39] make sure to have we can start with more

[1:15:41] sort of that conversation Andel and we

[1:15:45] have that but we wanted to make sure

[1:15:47] that there was some of this level

[1:15:48] setting went along but I think the

[1:15:51] important now is that folks talk to each

[1:15:53] other and set a couple priorities for us

[1:15:55] and then we can share those together

[1:16:00] with we'll be posting that online

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[1:25:48] yeah okay okay but I do hear some

[1:25:51] conversations happening a lot of

[1:25:53] conversations so love to open up anyone

[1:25:57] from your group who would like to share

[1:25:58] something that you talked

[1:26:00] about you learn

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[1:27:22] questioners question around overlay the

[1:27:25] spring blend overlay and how that um

[1:27:29] could be removed or the impact that that

[1:27:31] had you

[1:27:38] answer that it's a village District it

[1:27:41] was done per state statute at the time

[1:27:43] when they overh hold the zoning um it

[1:27:46] does have some additional restrictions

[1:27:48] pertaining to use which requires a

[1:27:51] special permit where some of just may

[1:27:53] beow

[1:27:55] that District didn't exist but I was

[1:27:57] saying some of the barriers there for

[1:27:58] homeowners is though lot sizes are

[1:28:00] actually smaller than what are for minum

[1:28:03] L sizes are that's what creates a lot of

[1:28:05] the nonconformities and regarding the

[1:28:07] development there was a question

[1:28:09] regarding the walgre parking lot is that

[1:28:12] the property owner has to have actually

[1:28:13] interest in developing and talking to

[1:28:15] the town regarding what the Future

[1:28:17] Vision is so that hasn't happened in

[1:28:19] that case the town to looking for devop

[1:28:22] that um again it's private property so

[1:28:26] realiz that approach

[1:28:30] developer own so I'm within Plum Z so

[1:28:35] they would approach me regarding the

[1:28:36] plum it's always process and approval

[1:28:38] process it's a little different so I'm

[1:28:41] not going to be able to answer your

[1:28:42] question because that's more of an

[1:28:44] interment question than PL

[1:28:46] question we can reach out to the mayor

[1:28:48] now leave but we can ask if they

[1:28:51] approach the owner

[1:28:54] is there anyone I'd love to hear any

[1:28:56] that came up in your table discussions

[1:28:58] does anyone want to offer any insights

[1:29:01] you had or what you talked

[1:29:03] about

[1:29:13] great you're gonna have to

[1:29:16] sh funding and legislation

[1:29:24] and addressing the foundations New Hall

[1:29:33] Bill and then utility cost with

[1:29:38] the great thank you that's very very

[1:29:40] helpful anybody else want to share

[1:29:42] something you guys talked

[1:29:45] about

[1:29:47] conversation just I've been reading a

[1:29:49] lot of the American planners Association

[1:29:51] how they accelerate guide book which is

[1:29:54] pleora of ideas that working in other

[1:29:57] states and other cities of you know add

[1:29:59] making it easy to to add an AVU anel

[1:30:02] accessory dwelling unit like a apartment

[1:30:05] above your garage like an in-law

[1:30:06] apartment or whatever um also having

[1:30:10] pre-approved architectural PL so more

[1:30:12] diverse developers can do like smaller

[1:30:14] projects um as well as obviously density

[1:30:18] um but also I was wondering if the hamon

[1:30:20] is looking into doing surveys of vacant

[1:30:23] land to identify areas that would make

[1:30:26] sense for multi projects um whether it's

[1:30:29] already townland or just

[1:30:32] abandoned brown brown field whatever so

[1:30:36] the comment or question was really

[1:30:39] around sort of looking at other best

[1:30:41] practices around um accessible dwelling

[1:30:43] units and sort of pre-plan units that

[1:30:46] are kind of smaller easier to develop

[1:30:48] maybe um in law Apartments things that

[1:30:51] you can do and then also thinking about

[1:30:53] the asked if the town has looked at

[1:30:55] vacant land or done the survey of

[1:30:57] different vacant land or Brownfield to

[1:30:59] look at what we have what what

[1:31:01] properties we have to develop that did I

[1:31:03] get that right um I don't know Eugene do

[1:31:07] you want to answer that

[1:31:10] question I'll just touch on

[1:31:13] briefly discuss a little

[1:31:16] bit so regarding like survey of

[1:31:19] properties um the the way the way I'll

[1:31:22] answer is will be looking into that the South Central Regional Council

[1:31:27] governments actually just updated the

[1:31:30] regional housing plan as part of that

[1:31:33] they created a mapping tool with all the

[1:31:35] parcels identifying some of the lands

[1:31:37] including some of the vacancy there so

[1:31:38] we're going to take a look at that um we

[1:31:41] also have Ming regarding some of the

[1:31:42] town the town parcel some of that vaces

[1:31:44] that exist in those areas as well so I

[1:31:47] mean I think the town will be happy to

[1:31:49] work with developers to partner on

[1:31:51] different aspects as we had in the p in

[1:31:53] the past there's a funding opportunity

[1:31:55] such as investment fund that potentially

[1:31:59] the subsidy Gap associated

[1:32:06] with

[1:32:13] whater so I mean is the question is do

[1:32:16] we have that information yeah yeah so

[1:32:18] that information exists within our uh

[1:32:21] land record and paria

[1:32:24] are those potential forite development

[1:32:27] or exploration well there's one of them

[1:32:29] that the town is currently trying to

[1:32:30] work with the state on regarding High

[1:32:32] Meadows um the the other state state

[1:32:35] owned land is mostly park

[1:32:37] space Associated so they're not really

[1:32:40] developable parcels and

[1:32:45] that are identified as

[1:32:49] that

[1:32:51] located function

[1:32:54] yeah so that's that's a good point happy

[1:32:56] to

[1:32:58] look yeah just to note that one of the

[1:33:00] things the council has asked the town to

[1:33:03] do as part of the human right resolution

[1:33:06] is to look into possibility of land

[1:33:08] trusting or or bringing some of these

[1:33:11] parcels and saving them even if we can't

[1:33:13] develop them immediately to not sell

[1:33:16] them to um commercial or other

[1:33:19] developers who would just roll them over

[1:33:21] for a profit but maybe uh be able to

[1:33:23] have some of properties for affordable

[1:33:25] rental and Home Ownership housing long

[1:33:27] term so this these ideas of surveying

[1:33:30] either vacant or state or Municipal own

[1:33:33] properties is really important as we

[1:33:34] think about that idea and the town L

[1:33:36] into that idea of possibly trusting

[1:33:41] some um I know we are well over time for

[1:33:44] 10 minutes is there anyone who'd like to

[1:33:45] share one last thing before we go or

[1:33:48] should we talk

[1:33:50] about oh I'll go just because my my team

[1:33:53] had to leave so they are professionals

[1:33:55] this is the work that they do um so they

[1:33:58] um basically said that they were pretty

[1:34:00] proud of handon I'm glad that we that we

[1:34:03] are making this a priority and they felt

[1:34:05] hopeful as

[1:34:07] experts thank you thank you for being

[1:34:10] here we really appreciate it um well

[1:34:12] wonderful I would thank you all for

[1:34:13] being here I apologize again that we did

[1:34:15] not have enough time for actual s more

[1:34:18] conversation and Q&A but we will do

[1:34:21] another one of these we're going to talk

[1:34:22] about the town uh about about the timing

[1:34:24] of that um we're going to collect your

[1:34:26] card so if you wrote something down just

[1:34:28] leave on your table or you can hand it

[1:34:29] to me and we'll uh think about what that

[1:34:32] next uh topic may be we've talked about

[1:34:34] doing stuff on the rental Registries and

[1:34:36] inspection process we've talked about

[1:34:38] doing sessions on tenant protections and

[1:34:40] tenant rights um but there's lots of

[1:34:43] topics we can dive into if you have them

[1:34:45] I have cards up here you can email or

[1:34:47] call me um and thank you again for being

[1:34:50] really appreciate your participation

[1:34:52] right on the table

[1:34:59] thank you

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