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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
[1:16:29] to
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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
[1:26:53] stat are not Z so it's a lot of our
[1:26:57] Z sizes are lower than
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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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