City launches new affordable housing process
From Yolo Sun:
Woodland has launched a fundamentally new policy and process for creation of affordable rental housing, with action at its regular meeting of May 19.
Previously, diverse actions of housing developers were the basic, driving force behind the creation of affordable housing, with the city responsively attempting to guide these actions in a relatively uncoordinated fashion.
“Over the last 12 months, staff has had a noticeable increase in calls from developers soliciting city assistance for projects. This new affordable housing development process will allow the city to fairly assess these potential projects and prioritize them in a manner that provides the greatest impact and benefit,” declared the staff report.
A five-member selection committee comprised of one councilmember and various staff will review, rank and prioritize submitted housing development proposals in advance of itemizing project selection for council action.
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Don't we think Woodland has met it's quota of affordable housing? Just take a look around...
It has met it's quota and unless the city council wakes up this town will be nothing but a social services community. I hear cries of promoting this community as a Historic Community well if it's having the highest amount of low income citizens that is historic then we certainly are going to historically be known for that.
Low income does not support their own communities they do not have expendable income. If the city wants to be more of a touristy area then wake up attacting more low income breeds more crime. Not every person that is low income is a criminal it's just what happens when people are desperate. The city is cutting public services ie such as response time for police calls, prioriting those calls ( I wonder who will make that determination) It's bad enough already to get a quick response when calling in. Just wait! The criminals are already learning this.
11:39
You don't know what you're talking about.
12:50
It's nice to just throw a handful of darts hoping one of them sticks, isn't it?
Both,
Nothing about the article talks about quotas. It talks about the city defining a process for developers who might want to take advantage of planning opportunities and grants.
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