Housing Sub-committee Draft Recommendations
Housing Sub-committee Draft Recommendations
Welcome. On this page, you will find draft Housing Sub-committee Recommendations. There are goals and strategies for the recommendations drafted by the Housing Sub-committee for your review and comment. In the sidebar you will find the Sub-committee Vision Statement along with contact information for the subcommittee facilitator.
Thank you in advance for your input and participation.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Please read through the draft goals and strategies developed by the subcommittee. Below each goal, you can share whether you agree with this goal or not. Below each strategy, you can comment on whether you think this strategy accomplishes the goal or whether there are other strategies you want to share.
- You are also able to provide comments via email, text message or voicemail, if you prefer. Text R672 to 885-925-2801 or for voicemail dial 855-925-2801, enter code 8712 and follow the prompts. You may email your responses to [email protected].
- Here are some general questions to help guide your thoughts:
1) Which of these goals and strategies stand out as being the most important to you? Which ones do you think will make the biggest difference in your community?
2) Are there goals or strategies that are missing here that are important to you?
3) What work is already being done on these in the community that can either be built upon or uplifted?
GOAL 1: ENSURE HOUSING PRODUCTION OF FOR SALE AND RENTABLE HOUSING STOCK SERVES THE NEEDS OF EXISTING RESIDENTS.
OBJECTIVE 1
Embed community input into new housing construction and rehabilitation projects in ways that are enforceable.
Strategy 1:
Develop a Greater Deanwood citizens' investment fund to provide equity for neighborhood development.
o Create a community governance structure to establish priorities and allocation of funds, funding structure (e.g., grants, residents can pay into it, PUD)
o Prioritize partnerships with mission-driven, community-based developers to build housing and economic development projects
o Partner with area churches to maximize church-owned land
Strategy: 2
Require all PUD projects, mixed-use and multifamily new developments to establish a community benefit agreement worth 1% of total development cost (TDC).
o 10% of those funds could go to local civic associations (or an area-CDFI)
o Larger community can vote on area wide projects
o Option B: CBA is cash-flow for project life instead of one-time payment
Objective 2:
Increase amount of mixed-income, family-size (3+ bedrooms) housing
Strategy:1
Implement a 75% FAR minimum requirement in all multi-family, mixed-use, and PDR ones
Strategy: 2
Remove acquisition transfer taxes and three years of property taxes for developers using LIHTC and/or revenue bonds in exchange for 40% of units going to an average of 50% AMI
Strategy: 3
Develop a TOPA process for all for-sale properties over 6K sq ft. Eligible buyers would be neighborhood affordable housing developers, civic associations, and neighborhood REI clubs.
Objective 3:
Create opportunities for shared-equity homeownership and community ownership of land
Strategy: 1
Strategize with local organizations (ANCs, Civic Associations, Tenant Associations, existing committees etc.) to explore a Greater Deanwood community land trust
Strategy: 2
Explore opportunities to create limited equity cooperatives in Greater Deanwood that maintains affordability (currently only three in area)
GOAL II:
PRESERVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK IN GREATER DEANWOOD
Objective 1:
Preserve at least 50% of all housing at or below 50% AMI
Strategy: 1
Strengthen and expand DC's rent control laws, set to expire at the end of 2020, to reduce/slow the pace of displacement of low- and moderate-income residents.
GOAL III:
INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF BASIC NEEDS AMENITIES (HEALTHCARE AND FOOD)
Objective 1:
Add 10 commercial properties throughout the area
Strategy: 1
Work with the Offices of Planning and Zoning to require a commercial component in all new developments that occur in a mixed-use or PDR zone
Objective 2:
Increase the amount of basic need providers in the community
Strategy 1:
Develop a live-work townhouse community for healthcare professionals in R2 zone neighborhoods; first-right to buy are neighborhood businesses
Strategy 2:
Create a DC government-backed acquisition incentive to develop a mixed-use plaza along Kenilworth Avenue between Eastern Ave and Nannie Helen Blvd
GOAL IV:
REMOVE THE STIGMA FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Objective 1:
Establish a new affordable housing narrative focused on how it looks and who lives there
Strategy 1:
Develop a marketing campaign to differentiate public/affordable housing
Strategy 2:
Create a Greater Deanwood neighborhood brand book
Strategy 3:
Make design recommendations for any new DCHA-sponsored development
GOAL V:
TRANSITION 30% OF AREA RESIDENTS CURRENTLY RENTING TO HOME OWNERSHIP
Objective 1:
Increase pace of approvals on for-sale purchases
Strategy 1:
Add a Ward 7-based CBO as a facilitator of EHAP, HPAP, and DC Open Doors funds and offer this assistance often and within the community (through ANCs, tenant
Strategy 2:
Create a pipeline, or list of residents looking to buy in the next two years
Strategy 3:
Support a DHCD and DCHFA sponsored pilot of (2) for-sale condo buildings
GOAL VI:
MAINTAIN GROWTH IN HOME VALUES BY KEEPING GREATER DEANWOOD AREA BEAUTIFUL
Objective 1:
Update non-housing assets on relative intervals (weekly through annually)
Strategy 1: Partner with DOES, DPW and DSLBD to create 10 jobs only available to greater Deanwood residents that focus on weekly clean-up of trash, graffiti, neighborhood jobs etc. This would be an extension of what DPW or Main Streets may currently be doing.
Objective 2:
Ban shoddy developers that engage in wealth-stripping practices from being able to build in Greater Deanwood
Strategy 1:
Require home flippers to register and purchase a bond relative to the number of homes they flip annually
Strategy 2:
Create a two strikes rule that heavily fines and bans repeat offenders
Housing Subcommittee Vision Statement: Longstanding and new residents of all incomes and ages have a safe and clean place to live that reflects the culture of Deanwood, Richardson Dwellings, Lincoln Heights and Capitol View communities.
Subcommittee Facilitator Contact Info:
Thomas Houston, Medici Road
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