{"id":619,"date":"2015-12-04T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=619"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:37:24","slug":"great-ideas-on-improving-berkeley-housing-situation-from-participants-at-the-teach-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Great Ideas on Improving Berkeley Housing Situation from Participants at the Teach-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-620 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20151122_141242\" width=\"561\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151122_141242.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Development attendees like<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 stories<\/li>\n<li>Infill, Affordable housing that blends with neighborhoods architecturally<\/li>\n<li>In lieu versus inclusionary: some say no in-lieu of units in new developments, one asks for atleast 30% low and middle income units in new development; one likes integrating low and moderate income housing; one recommends city consider a range of income levels cumulatively equivalent to 50% of AMI<\/li>\n<li>Preserve\u00a0and protect historic\u00a0buildings\u00a0in downtown<\/li>\n<li>Limited equity housing, coops; coops of large buildings, not just homes; community\u00a0land trusts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ways to raise money to build affordable housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tax\u00a0on excess rents, windfall profits<\/li>\n<li>City funds<\/li>\n<li>Tax\/limit short term rentals<\/li>\n<li>Fines\/fees for university for student impact<\/li>\n<li>fines\/fees for megacorps for regional impact<\/li>\n<li>Tax\u00a0landlords\u00a0for public use, use for the homeless<\/li>\n<li>Sue state for redevelopment money to recover portion of taxes<\/li>\n<li>Seek grants for disabled housing near Ed Roberts<\/li>\n<li>5% transfer tax<\/li>\n<li>Tax for pied-a-terre, 2ndary homes<\/li>\n<li>Huge foreign purchase tax<\/li>\n<li>Google bus tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommendations for help for low income tenants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set aside revenue streams for affordable housing<\/li>\n<li>Increased subsidies for low income tenants, local Section 8 program<\/li>\n<li>Matching savings plans for housing ownership, Loans to tenants to buy buildings&#8211;acquisition program, city office to centralize subidy\/loan info; Local Stake system that gives local residents including homeless housing benefits for long residence\/participation in the community<\/li>\n<li>Increase awareness of issues for renters\/voters, and 1:1 with council members to fully understand 360 degree perspective on housing issues instead of profits \/bottom line<\/li>\n<li>Build youth hostels<\/li>\n<li>Build fellowship housing for staff of non-profits, arts, education<\/li>\n<li>Tax relief for landlords with long term tenants in rent controlled units<\/li>\n<li>Tiny house\/Camping area for temp housing of homeless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Legislation needed to protect\/ increase affordable housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pass highest rate for inclusionary housing and highest in-lieu fee<\/li>\n<li>See\u00a0if rent control can be\u00a0extended\u00a0to buildings built since 1982<br \/>\nRequire payment of in-lieu fees during permitting process, rather than when the occupancy permit is issued<\/li>\n<li>Revoke Ellis\u00a0act<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate Costa-Hawkins, create stronger\u00a0rent control, end vacancy decontrol. penalize landlords for housing discrimination (preferring students with their rapid turnover), by resetting rent back to original level)<\/li>\n<li>Pass robust demolition ordinance, No demolitions of existing rent controlled housing. One for One replacement of demolished rent controlled units<\/li>\n<li>Tax on foreign buyers to reduce housing speculation<\/li>\n<li>Vacancy Penalty (fee for vacant properties to cover costs incurred by city for policing, clean up, degradation of community)<\/li>\n<li>Make housing a civil right, so people can sue if they are homeless<\/li>\n<li>Rent control for local businesses in return for minimum wage<\/li>\n<li>Pressure university to reduce dorm fees so they are preferred to private housing<\/li>\n<li>Prevent Plan Bay Area\/ABAG from removing anti-displacement language. Raise awareness of this threat<\/li>\n<li>End racist housing policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outreach needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elect New Council and new commission members who are champions of affordable housing<\/li>\n<li>Disrupt developer &#8220;Welcome to our project&#8221; meetings.<\/li>\n<li>End racist housing policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage collective eating halls to enable kitchen free housing, or subscription service to local residents<\/li>\n<li>Better transit: Provide shuttles to reduce need for parking; improve public transit to dilute gentrified areas; Provide car-share in any building with limited parking<\/li>\n<li>Buy city-owned properties in North Berkeley to increase density in luxury area<\/li>\n<li>Moratorium\u00a0on other buildings<\/li>\n<li>lower &#8220;rent taking&#8221; on items of mass use to free income for housing, such as public phone, internet, water, electricity, gasd, cable tv, mail, bulk food<\/li>\n<li>Encourage shared office workspaces to favor housing over office space; encourage mixed housing in commercial buildings<\/li>\n<li>@BTU: clarify who is &#8220;good for housing&#8221; so people will stop falling for fake housing promises from developers and Silicon Valley libertarians. The current council is bamboozling tenants by promising market drive housing<\/li>\n<li>Stop letting regional interests dictate housing policy<\/li>\n<li>Build affordable housing that blends with neighborhoods<\/li>\n<li>Focus on local employment, get high paying employers to look for local talent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development attendees like 6 stories Infill, Affordable housing that blends with neighborhoods architecturally In lieu versus inclusionary: some say no in-lieu of units in new developments, one asks for atleast 30% low and middle income units in new development; one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=619\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Ideas on Improving Berkeley Housing Situation from Participants at the Teach-In<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}