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ULI fall meeting - 102711 - patrick costigan - uli choice-neighborhoods_10-27-2011
1. CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS
URBAN LAND INSTITUTE FALL MEETING
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Department of Housing
and Urban Development
2. WHAT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS DOES:
PROVIDES AN INNOVATIVE TOOL FOR LOCAL LEADERS
Designed to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty with severely distressed
public and/or assisted housing into sustainable mixed-income communities
with
• To revitalize
Comprehensive struggling
• Supports and Flexible Tools
locally- communities
developed with distressed
• Competitively HUD-supported
solutions awards grants that affordable
address housing
housing, people, a
nd neighborhood
Supports needs
to Revitalize
Communities Neighborhoods
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3. WHAT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS DOES:
BUILDS UPON THE LESSONS OF HOPE VI
Best of Lessons &
HOPE VI Innovations
•Transformed • Supports
distressed public neighborhood
housing revitalization
Choice
•Created mixed- •Expands Neighborhoods
income applicant
communities eligibility
•Leveraged •Includes other
significant private HUD-assisted
and non-profit housing
funding
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4. WHAT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS DOES:
SUPPORTS NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION
HOPE VI Choice Neighborhoods
• Leveraging
• Leveraging • Neighborhood plan –
housing, people, neighborh
• Housing plan
ood
with people
supports • Flexibility for supportive
services, critical community
• Funding
improvements, and non-
flexibility for
assisted housing
supportive
services • Alignment with Promise
Neighborhoods, health
centers, and public safety
funding
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5. WHAT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS DOES:
INCLUDES OTHER HUD-ASSISTED HOUSING
HOPE VI Choice Neighborhoods
• Public housing
• Project-based Section 8
• Section 202
• Public housing
authorities • Section 811
• Section 221(d)(3)
• Section 236
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6. WHAT CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS DOES:
EXPANDS APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY
HOPE VI Choice Neighborhoods
• Public housing
authorities
• Local governments
• Public housing
authorities • Non-profits
• For-profit
developers in
partnership with a
public entity
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7. CURRENT & FUTURE COMPETITIONS
CHOICE FUNDING CONTINUES TO REACH MORE COMMUNITIES
2010
• 17 Planning Grants
• $4 million awarded in total
2011
• 5 Implementation Grants: Boston, Chicago, New
Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle; $122 million awarded in
total
• 12+ new Planning Grants; $3.6 million available
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8. SAN FRANCISCO’S CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD:
SIGNIFICANT PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT
$30.5 million Choice Neighborhoods grant
$244.5 million in committed leverage
CP Development Co. / Lennar Homes & San
Francisco Redevelopment Agency are key
committed funders
Lead Applicant: McCormack Baron Salazar
Co-Applicant: San Francisco Housing Authority
Key Partners: CP Development / Lennar Homes
Urban Strategies
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
San Francisco Unified School District
City of San Francisco
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9. SAN FRANCISCO’S CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD:
MARKET RATE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Eastern Bayview neighborhood
Alice Griffith Public Housing Development: Constructed in 1962, Alice Griffith is a
family development of two-story townhouse style buildings scattered throughout a
22-acre site.
A total of 1,126 units planned
• 256 units of public housing that are replaced (1 for 1 replacement)
• 248 new low income housing tax credit units
• 310 market-rate units
• 31 inclusionary units
• 281 workforce units
Up to 7,850 units projected to be developed over the next 10-15 years.
Investments in education, workforce development, and community
services.
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10. SAN FRANCISCO’S CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD:
TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS & COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Transportation improvements
• Connect neighborhood to downtown via Third Street
Retail attraction through SF Shines Façade Improvement Program
• Initiative to provide streetscape enhancement and recommendations for
business attraction and retention
Greening improvements, such as recreational improvements along the
shoreline.
Planned activities at nearby Candlestick Point:
• New commercial assets
• Job development
• Recreational assets and services
This will be enhanced by 104 acres of new parks and open space and
an entertainment arena.
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Slide 2: Choice Neighborhoods was designed to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty, with severely distressed public and/or assisted housing into sustainable mixed-income communities.
Slide 3: The program was built on a foundation of 17 successful years of HOPE VI. In essence, CN enshrines the lessons we've learned from the most innovative and successful HOPE VI developments into a program that gives communities in distress more tools to tackle what we know to be interconnected needs.Importantly, we saw the need to move beyond the public-housing-site-specific scale, to the broader neighborhood scale.
Slide 4: For example, we know that the most successful HOPE VI developments integrated supports for their residents, ensured high quality educational opportunities for children, and addressed the health and job readiness needs of adults. In turn, Choice Neighborhoods was designed to make it easier for local communities to focus on these fundamental needs, allowing greater funding flexibility to knit support services into the revitalized community, improve community assets, and ensure high quality educational opportunities for young children.
Slide 5: Choice Neighborhoods also expands HOPE VI's redevelopment toolkit to allow for redevelopment of private and federally assisted properties alongside public housing. This means that the disinvested private or assisted housing that frustrated cities and housing authorities, and, in many cases, fostered crime and blight, can now be included in comprehensive neighborhood revitalization efforts.
Slide 6: In HOPE VI, only PHAs were eligible to apply. With Choice, we decided to expand the pool of eligible applicants to include, in addition to PHAs, local governments, non-profits, and for-profit developers that were partnered together with a public entity.
Slide 7: To date, we’ve awarded 17 Planning Grants, and 5 Implementation grants…..TRANSITION to QUESTIONS: Partners from one of our Implementation Grantees are here with us today, from San Francisco….. (Turn to Next Slide)
Question 1: Kate, you’re with the City of San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency -- tell us about the target neighborhood for the Choice application. What are the relative social and geographic contexts? [See “notes and questions” handout for questions 2-7]