This one, the issue is obvious, so it was also a little hard to brainstorm around.
Here are the items that got the most votes:
- Lack of economic incentive
- Co-op housing/cohousing
- Lack of political will in “city hall” and county
- Long waiting lists for subsidized and transitional housing
- Ineffective government policy
- More TIF $ for affordable housing and less for other developers, less TIF use for high-end housing
- Lack of public transit & connecting housing and jobs, infrastructure/transportation/access to retail and services
- Profit & Non-profit partnerships lacking
These had a few votes
- Zoning code
- Financing options
- Racism and classism
- Property Tax Exemption
- Lack of county and state trust fund
- Lack of paid sick leave
- Not enough section 8 vouchers, projects, public housing, supportive housing
- Stronger requirements - # of units – affordable – larger units, 3 br+; very low income
- NIMBYism, stigma, Resistance to mix-income neighborhoods
- Predatory lending
- Lack of affordable housing in “desirable” areas
- Lack of revenue stream for city trust fund
- Lack of minimum requirement of affordable housing units w/in a neighborhood
- Lack of living wage
- Mobile home protections – need some more!
- Nimbyism regarding affordable housing
- Some communities more acceptive
These received no votes:
- First time homeownership
- Surplus of high-end housing (increase tax base)
- Metrics of growth, necessary?
- Quality of existing affordable housing pool, building inspections
- Cost of development of accessible housing
- Condo conversions – fees set artificially low, no reserve fund, special assessments
- Predatory practices – bad financial products, scams
- Distribution of Development
- Family size & ages
- Madison elitist city/culture
- Increased access to home loans
- Definition of affordable housing
- Lack of subsidies – developers or renters
Again, let us know what we missed.
Affordable, sustainable seniors housing
ReplyDeleteEither assistance w/ aging in place or the need to assist older people in transitioning out of their homes
Submitted via email:
ReplyDeleteThe number one issue as far as I am concerned (especially in our neighborhood) is how to get families into some of these old homes so that they do not need to be bulldozed. My wife and I are looking for a house right now and it is very surprising that many people still want $300K+ for homes that need almost $80K worth of work put into them to make them liveable. I know right now that the City offers I think $7,500 to people who qualify as a free loan for a downpayment assistance, but that just is not enough anymore to get even middle-class folks into these houses. We should offer way more and the Affordable Housing Trust is there to help us do it. For example, if we offered interest-free loans repayable upon selling the house up to $25K, we would get a lot more of these homes off the market. Then they would get fixed up instead of knocked down, which I know is what we both want.
Submitted via email:
ReplyDeleteOne of my big housing concerns is under-maintained housing: I don't want to see more chunks of neighborhood bulldozed. Don't want to poke city building inspectors in the eye - this is something that we need to monitor and complain about. Don't know the best strategy, but it is indeed an issue!
Submitted via email:
ReplyDeleteone thing i cannot believe is that the city of madison is manipulating a federal program like section 8 and raising it only within the city limits to 50% and leavin all the outlying areas untouched? i wasnt aware that a state could do that to a fed program?
Submitted via email:
ReplyDeleteAffordability seems to come up the most around here along with family supporting jobs. No surprise….
Submitted via email - slightly edited so its relevant and understandable:
ReplyDeleteThere is a potential loss of about 57 affordable downtown housing units if Apex Realty
is successful with their proposed development that starts at 139 W. Wilson and goes
down Wilson and around the corner to 321 S. Henry. 2 owners on S. Henry aren't
interested in selling and Apex has said they will build around them. Project is a 300 room hotel at 139 W. Wilson, condos, apartments and office space. I'll keep you informed.
Apex is really serious about this. For a 15 minute info session they had their attorney,
+ Paul Soglin + Bert Stitt + 2 others. That's about $1500. in fees to these facilitators. The Apex president, Steve Yoder, gave a power point.