Housing And Community Preservation Committee

The Los Angeles County Board has allocated $25 million dollars to spend on new programs that promote social justice. I have developed a proposal to allocate the money to create affordable housing complexes in communities within the city. The communities selected for housing developments are Boyle Heights, Watts, Chinatown, Pico-Union and Elysian Park. The proposal includes spending all $25 million in five developments of affordable housing. Each housing development will have twenty five 2-bedroom apartments. A total of one hundred low income families will benefit in total. My proposal includes asking each family to pay a monthly rent of 1/4 of their monthly earnings. The monthly rent collected from tenants can be used to maintain the developments,

Unfortunately for Pittsburghers of lower- and middle-income means, living in Eastside and Bond isn’t attainable; a one-bedroom apartment there starts a $1,900 and two-bedroom units start at $2,300. And a group of affordable-housing advocates are upset about it.

Affordable housing: Rental housing or property that costs no more than 30% of one’s income. This is the long-established criterion for housing affordability (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2013).

Worcester City has a greater percentage of ethnic groups of people than Worcester Metropolitan Area. This data indicates that the city of Worcester is more diverse than the metropolitan area. In the city of Worcester, the median household income is 46,105, which is less than 65,453 in the Worcester Metropolitan Area. This implies that people who live outside of the city are better-off in economically. The percent of population in poverty is greater in the Worcester City than it is in the Worcester Metropolitan Area. 22.00 percent of the population in the Worcester city are in poverty, which is massive.

New Hope Housing addresses several areas of the McKinsey framework for capacity. Specially, strategy, staff and leadership, funding, and advocacy are addressed within their plan. Although it is interesting, the infrastructure was not thoroughly discussed within their plan, that would need evaluated to address the additional programs and initiatives they seek to accomplish.

The aim of the City of Sydney Affordable Rental Housing State Environmental Planning Policy Strategy (SEPP) is to protect existing affordable housing and to facilitate ¬¬¬¬¬new affordable housing in the City of Sydney to provide for social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability. The key of this strategy is to increase the amount of affordable rental housing in the local area to very low, low and moderate income households; protect existing stock of low cost rental accommodation; encourage a diverse range of housing in the local area; and work with other inner Sydney councils to address affordable rental housing at a regional level. According to the SEPP, affordable housing is refers to housing that does not take more than 30% of a very low, low or moderate household’s income. It defines affordable housing as very low income household as

affordability in the area and create higher density housing with a planned 2,828 new dwellings. It plans to have diverse housing types for all socio economic groups to prevent exclusion and support the economic and social sustainability of the area.

In 2008, Northampton Massachusetts completed the Sustainable Northampton Comprehensive Plan. This plan was implemented in order to “support a wide variety of housing types that increase rental and homeownership units to create and preserve a range of affordability and choice in housing options” (Source). For quite some time, Northampton has been keen on making housing more affordable and accessible to it’s community.

Housing, according to 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, there were 2,934 housing units in the community area. Due in the drastic population increased that occurred over the last decade, the rate of vacant housing units in the planning area was lower (8 percent) than Chicago (13 percent). The rate of owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing units in the Chinatown were 41 percent and 59 percent. The median value of owner-occupied housing units in the Chinatown was $266,800 in 2015 that was higher than that of Chicago ($222,900). In terms of affordable housing, although the median housing value in the Chinatown was higher than Chicago, the household in the Chinatown still spent less than Chicago on housing in 2013. Nearly 76 percent households of the Chinatown spent less than 30 percent of their income and 22 percent spent less than 16 percent of their income on housing. In contrast with Chicago, only 62 percent households spent less than 30 percent of their income and 5 percent households spent less than 16 percent of their income on housing.

The Housing Authority of the County of the San Joaquin is a organization defined as; housing

The research paper problem that the authors, Von E. Nebbitt, James Herbert Williams, Margaret Lombe, Henrika McCoy, and Jennifer Stephens are trying to answer are the reasons that affect African Americans and other minorities that lives in Urban Public Housing. The author’s wants to figure out why minorities are so poorly represented in different data findings like the Census Bureau and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA). The many methods they employ to answer their questions are that the authors of this article included surveys and case studies from there research and also other individuals research. The authors also included study sites which were major inner cities. When they had the study sites, they also took administrative

Multiple reasons exist for the the lack of affordable housing. On the demand side these include population growth and increased migration to urban areas, easily accessible housing finance, tax incentives and a “strong cultural preference for owner-occupied detached houses”. On the supply side, affordability problems are exacerbated by inflexible and slow responses to the need for new housing stock, lack of infrastructure and generally inefficient planning processes and development assessment by local governments.

Currently Boston has about 28,400 low-income households who need a home that is affordable to their income. Therefore in thirteen years they hope to have at least 38,200 units of affordable housing. Dees Stribling says “For Boston, the CPA would generate an estimated $20M in revenue a year that would go toward affordable housing.” We have to be able to get families out of danger and into safety by getting them into their own homes but the sooner the better.

The lack of housing access was a serious problem, hence the government undertakes mulitple measures to tackle the massive housing shortage inherited from the colonial government to ensure that all of its citizens had access to affordable housing.[1]

As we have seen, low-income individuals, families, and seniors struggle to find housing they can afford. Lack of income or insufficient education further impacts the problem. Some individuals may even fall into a life of homelessness. There are some housing options yet they can be difficult to obtain. There must be another way to help these particular segments of the community.