The city's housing officer hopes that developers and officials will 'start thinking about displacement on the front end, not the back end.'
developers have to go through to receive housing bond funds for their projects, but because it’s only a pilot, it won’t count for points but scoring committee members will consider the results.Does the project directly displace existing residents?Would the project increase the census tract population by 10% or more?
If a developer answers yes to the second or third questions, their project will likely receive a more in-depth analysis by city staff for ways to mitigate the risk. “We can’t utilize public funding and public dollars to continue to [further segregate] … communities,” she said. But that means making the assessment worth points in the scoring criteria for proposals.
“During this pilot phase, we really want to make sure that we’re hitting the intent of the council and bond committee in this,” Wamsley Estrada said. “So we will be watching this closely as we go through these first two rounds of bond funding,” tweaking the tool as necessary., the local chapter of a national nonprofit that finances affordable housing and community development projects, called the assessment “a really good step towards a more holistic understanding” of housing displacement.
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