QUESTION
How many supportive housing units are vacant and what efforts are being made to fill them?
2:36:24
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There are approximately 1,900 vacant supportive housing units, with an ongoing effort to fill them.
- About 1,900 supportive housing units are currently reported as vacant through the CAP system, yet this figure is changeable.
- Many of these vacancies are in the process of being allocated, or involve units that are newly becoming available.
- A significant portion of the vacant units are SROs (Single Room Occupancies), which are typically more challenging to lease.
- To make SRO units more appealing, the city has introduced a fixed $50 rent initiative in place of the standard 30% of income, specifically for SRO tenants under the City Feeps program.
- The limitations of rental subsidies for SRO units being outside the city's control are acknowledged, with ongoing investigations into further improvement measures.
Gale A. Brewer
2:36:24
And just finally, vacant units in support of housing, how many of them are vacant in support of housing, or in places that I don't wanna mention because I know where some of them are, but people want single rooms.
2:36:37
And so, Congress get housing, how many beds are do you keep track of that?
2:36:41
Because some congregate housing nonprofits have a lot of vacancies.
Molly Wasow Park
2:36:48
Thank you, Council member.
2:36:49
I think I'm following a question in between administrator French and I, we will do our best.
2:36:54
So the overall vacancy number for supportive housing for the units that we track through our CAP system.
2:37:02
It's a fluid number, but it's about 1900 units.
Gale A. Brewer
2:37:05
That are vacant to
Molly Wasow Park
2:37:07
Yes.
2:37:07
A lot of those are are in process.
2:37:10
They don't physically have somebody in them, but the person has been matched.
2:37:13
It's in process.
2:37:14
Their units that are just coming online.
2:37:17
There's a variety of different stories there.
2:37:20
In that number, our some SRO and non trivial number of SRO units.
2:37:26
These do tend to be units that are a little bit harder to lease up.
2:37:29
We recognize that that they are less appealing to clients.
2:37:35
We are working with the providers who operate them.
2:37:38
One of the things that I think is a challenge is that with rental subsidies, you're generally expected to pay 30% of your income and rent.
2:37:46
And certainly, if I could pay 30% of my income and rent for an SRO or for a studio, I would hold out for the studio.
2:37:54
Within City Feeps, which is a program that we can roll, we have changed that so that there's now if you're renting an SRO unit, it's a flat $50 rather than the 30% of income.
2:38:06
For, but many of the SRO units have rental subsidies that we don't control.
2:38:10
So we're looking if there's other ways that we can address that.
Gale A. Brewer
2:38:14
Okay.
2:38:14
I thank you very much.
2:38:15
I have more, but maybe second round.
