Patrick Boyle from Enterprise Community Partners on support for City of Yes and its affordable housing provisions
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3 min
Patrick Boyle, representing Enterprise Community Partners, expresses support for the City of Yes proposal, highlighting its potential to address the housing crisis by increasing housing supply and affordability. He emphasizes several key aspects of the proposal that Enterprise Community Partners finds particularly beneficial.
- Praises the Universal Affordability Preference for its potential to add affordable housing units at lower income levels
- Supports citywide proposals for building conversions and adaptive reuse, especially when combined with state-level tax incentives for affordability
- Advocates for the elimination of barriers to infill development, which could benefit faith-based organizations in executing affordable housing projects
- Recommends the city develop term sheets and tax incentive programs for smaller sites in lower density districts to ensure affordable housing is included in new developments
- Support for the City of Yes proposal as a necessary component to address the housing crisis
- Excitement about the universal affordability preference
- Benefits for affordable housing developers, including nonprofit and MWBE Emerging Developers
- Support for enabling conversion and adaptive reuse of buildings citywide
- Potential benefits of combining the proposal with state-level tax incentives for office-to-residential conversions
- Elimination of barriers to infill development, particularly beneficial for faith-based organizations
- Support for transit-oriented development and town center zoning in lower density districts
- Urging the city to develop term sheets and tax incentive programs for smaller sites to ensure affordable housing in lower density areas
[EXPERIMENTAL]
Which elements of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity were discussed in this testimony?
- UAP
- Residential Conversions
- Town Center Zoning
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Campuses
The following are AI-extracted quotes and reasoning about which elements of the proposal were discussed in this testimony.
This is a quick, close approximation. Occasionally, the connection between a testimony's transcript and specific elements of City Planning's proposal is tenuous.
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UAP
"You know, in particular, we're excited about the universal affordability preference."
This quote directly mentions the Universal Affordability Preference, which is a key element of the City of Yes For Housing Opportunity proposal.
"And the city of yes is really a way to add affordable housing units one of the provisions that really specifically gets at those affordable housing units at at lower incomes."
This quote discusses how the City of Yes proposal, including the UAP, will add affordable housing units at lower income levels, which aligns with the UAP's goal.
Residential Conversions
"With respect to some of the citywide proposals, enabling conversion and adaptive reuse from for a broader set of building city wide, There's really a benefit, particularly if that compare with what was passed at the city level in terms of office to residential conversions."
This quote directly addresses the residential conversions element of the proposal, mentioning both conversion and adaptive reuse of buildings citywide, which aligns with the proposal's aim to make it easier to convert non-residential buildings into housing.
Town Center Zoning
"You know, for lower density districts on the whole, the transit oriented development and town centers owning. It's a way to bring housing to those districts."
This quote explicitly mentions 'town centers owning' (likely a transcription error for 'zoning') as a way to bring housing to lower density districts, which directly relates to the Town Center Zoning element of the proposal.
Transit-Oriented Development
"You know, for lower density districts on the whole, the transit oriented development and town centers owning. It's a way to bring housing to those districts."
This quote explicitly mentions 'transit oriented development' as a way to bring housing to lower density districts, which directly relates to the Transit-Oriented Development element of the proposal.
Campuses
"Many of the sites in the afforded the faith based cohort we work with, you know, would qualify for this on on lots, parking lots on their sites, other types of of lot considerations that would allow them to do a little more housing there, particularly the affordable housing that we work with them to execute on."
While not explicitly mentioning 'campuses', this quote discusses faith-based organizations and their ability to add housing on their lots, which aligns with the Campuses element of the proposal that aims to make it easier for campuses, including faith-based ones, to add new buildings for housing.
About this analysis:
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