1. Produce Homes for All/ Spur Housing Production at All Income Levels
1.1. Allow a Greater Mix of Housing Types and Densities in Blueprint Growth Areas.
1.1.1. Blueprint Compact
1.1.2. TA: PDA Planning
1.1.3. TA: REAP
1.1.4. PBA50 EIR: CEQA Streamlining for Consistent Projects
1.1.5. TOD Policy Update
1.2. Further increase investment in affordable housing production and expand incentives to meet anticipated need.
1.2.1. Regional Affordable Housing Funding Package (internal: need to ground in actual $... earliest is 2022. WHAT BAHFA CAN DO: Bond issuance. $ in effect in late 2023 at earliest. Planning to have $1B a year starting at that point. In package: a) Bond; b) additional revenue source (progressive - payroll, gross receipts) - may get us above $1B.... c) once parcel tax in place, regional commercial linkage fee (calculate what amount of revenue that would generate) -- harder if biz tax... Broad parcel and either gross receipts + commercial linkage fee. Maybe assume both for Plan. ALSO, WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR ADDITIONAL SOURCES... Also hoping to attract private capital... State and Federal: Rebecca is best source for info. .. IDEA: come up with number with our sphere of influence, here is gap, and we think it's plausible we could get X and Y. [The plan assumes we fill it through following: x, y, and z.] NEED NUMBER: Worked with enterprise/nph to figure out an ask to the feds; quantifying need.
1.2.2. Regional coordination of affordable housing funding and development. DS: a) size of pot; b) making system more efficient ($ go further). (also ask Matt Schwartz similar. A Talcott at MidPen. Nevada Merriman.. (focusing on funding policy). HP: Accelerator fund - connect to ACFA.. kate has been trying to get Brad + Brian to see if we can do this. Revenue-based financing (where rent can support.) connecting land to developers - ta: 21 elements for schools "boot camps".
1.2.3. Regional Affordable Housing Waiting List (Doorway). (doesn't increase size of pie, or making $ go farther... help people apply for AH. Longer term implications - dataset, waitlists, etc). Strategic funding programming guidelines. i.e. in Solano COunty predominant D is for 3 BR, challenge to financing those, BAHFA prioritize $ for those sorts of projects. .. If collect demog data, helps inform Fair Housing decisions/policy: where are barriers emerging, or disconnect between S and D on racial/etc basis.
1.2.4. Accelerate Housing Innovation: Technology, Financing, Policy. HP: Role for MTC/ABAG - orange.. Berkeley has more leverage, UC-B.. other than brining $ to the table. ALSO COST CONTROL: Modular, dealing with unions, fee reductions, permit streamlining... PUT IN REAP/GREEN: Planning/process stuff: address through REAP, etc.... [maybe goes int the first strategy... providing TA to local jurictions re:
1.2.5. Provide financial support/loan guarantees for Plan-supportive projects that "don't pencil". DS: ACFA --- not raising capital, but employing financing creativity... (first one is subsidies; this one is creative financial products). ACFA/BAHFA. If we were to use ACFA to issue large bond amounts, can get program revenue to recirculate. (Unique ACFA characteristic - can finance beyond housing, i.e. BART - revenue stream from housing, need political support for that. . . transportation infrastructure financing mechanisms for housing revenue.) BAHFA - narrow class of bonds related to housing. ... [biz plan could look at land... but "donation" seems less likely. but if we are holding company, could do asset based leveraging in a unique/creative way.] [Better short term: done at county level..] Value add is in tehcnical support-assistance for smaller jurisdictions. hard to put $ into plan for this. Through REAP cohort, do public lands, enhance expertise around reusing land. Also, getting jurisdictions to comply with SLA (reinforce funding conditioning and complement with TA).
1.3. Transform aging malls and office parks into neighborhoods.
1.3.1. Regional Catalyst Projects: Financing and Incentives
1.3.2. Regional Catalyst Projects: Coordination and TA
1.4. Remove Barriers to Housing in Areas of High Opportunity and Transit-Rich Areas.
1.4.1. PDA Planning Grants & TA
1.4.2. REAP
2. Protection and Presevation
2.1. Increase Funding and Expand Incentives to Preserve Today’s Affordable Homes
2.1.1. Preserve deed-restricted affordable units at risk of conversion to market rate. FUNDING COMPLENENT. AND TA COMPONENT. COULD ALSO BE REAP; FUNDING and FINANCING: BAHFA..... TA: model politices, best practices: REAP. (or as REAP funding expires, goes into BAHFA as REAP funding expires... distinction diminishes.
2.1.2. Regional TOPA/COPA. DS: Things 2 different types: NOAH, expiring. Some could use same mechanisms (solution can be the same). Also important for equity... non-fed funding could support undocumented... Rent control also an important/powerful tool for this group. DC lessons: a) policy framework; b) dedicated TA for lower capacity people and orgs; c) subsidy (dedicated source). ABAG/MTC: could help with model policy. translating DC concept into CA framework is early-stage, we could craft a bay area version that is legally defensible, replicable. (Challenge grant fellows are a resource for this). "C" is traditional non-profit (midpen, ebaldc).. tenants assign rights to the purchase to community-serving entity.
2.2. Further Strengthen Renter Protections Beyond State Legislation.
2.2.1. Funding for anti-displacement and tenant protection services. (More sense for service network to be decentralized -- we can dispense $ and deisgn programs, and through convening power influence policies). (could fund with gross receipts tax.)
2.2.2. REAPy (BAHFAish long term): Anti-displacement and tenant protection TA. i.e. Right to Counsel, etc...
2.3. Create Secure Housing and Build Community Wealth.
2.3.1. Mortgage Assistance
2.3.2. Emergency Renter Assistance
3. Inclusive Communities
3.1. Redress racial exclusion, disinvestment and displacement
3.1.1. Regional Leadership to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH):
3.1.2. Racial Justice Policy
3.2. Expand Public and Community-owned land and accelerate its reuse for housing and local services
3.2.1. Regional Land Trust/Land Bank
3.2.2. Community and Public Land Technical Assistance Teams