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Enforcement mechanisms for comprehensive planning targets
0:30:24
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Commissioner Anita Laremont asks Barika Williams about the enforceability and accountability mechanisms for the proposed comprehensive planning framework, particularly at the community district level. Williams suggests potential tools like financial penalties for non-compliance (possibly impacting broader funding beyond housing) or incentives linking desired investments (like schools) to meeting housing targets.
- Enforcement could mirror federal models like AFFH, potentially involving loss of funds.
- Penalties might need to affect more than just housing funds to be effective in resistant communities.
- Incentives could link fulfilling housing targets to receiving funding for other community priorities like school seats.
Anita Laremont
0:30:24
Thank you very much for your testimony.
0:30:26
A question I have in terms of, you know, developing your capital planning framework, what what have you thought about in terms of the enforceability of of such a plan and accountability in terms of, you know, you'll have community districts with targets, but to ensure that those targets are met.
0:30:46
Because otherwise, you know, I I think there's a a challenge that we've always sort of considered in this.
0:30:52
How would you deal with that?
0:30:53
Yes.
Barika Williams
0:30:54
We've talked about it in two different ways where, you know, there's, the way that the federal government prior to maybe more recently, was administering this, in AFFH, which was an affirmatively furthering fair housing, which would be the loss of federal investments.
0:31:12
So there's, like, a penalty framework of this where you would say you're potentially losing funds or investments.
0:31:19
And I I think in order for that to be effective, it would have to probably be more it would have to be broadly a penalty across not just specific to housing investments.
0:31:30
Because to be honest, some of these communities would be quite happy being able to say, we didn't take the housing investment and so therefore don't have to build the housing.
0:31:39
So the penalty has to be felt on something that actually impacts those communities and and, brings them in, but then also could be an incentive opportunity to say, you know, when you do this, we're we're we're I think there's an opportunity, and that's why balancing out with not just housing creates the the circumstance where you can say, you're literally looking for new school seats in your community.
0:32:00
We're gonna be able to support new school seats, but we can only do that if we're also if you're also funding, affordable housing.