Strategic Growth Council (SGC) Sustainable Community Planning July - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Strategic Growth Council (SGC) Sustainable Community Planning July - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Strategic Growth Council (SGC) Sustainable Community Planning July 18, 2019| Childhood Obesity Conference SGC Member Agencies Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Vision Funds infill projects that reduce Greenhouse
SGC Member Agencies
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Vision
- Funds infill projects that reduce Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) emissions and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) through sustainable land use, housing, and transportation practices
- Bringing together affordable housing and
transportation worlds
Culprit: Vehicle Miles Traveled
Why do we drive so much?
Lack of location efficient housing Lack of quality low-carbon transportation options
Climate Change and Health Equity
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“…climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’… [that] will intensify the challenges
- f global instability, hunger,
poverty and conflict.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Social Determinants of Health
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LRudolph April 2014 7
“It is unreasonable to expect that people will change their behavior easily when so many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change.”
- Institute of Medicine
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Expansion of Bus Routes Affordable Housing Pedestrian Pathways Bike Lanes Sidewalks Urban Greening Bus Shelters
Image Credits- Produced in Piktochart by SGC Staff
Vermont Manchester Transit Priority Project
ICP Project – County and City of Los Angeles
Project Details
- 85-90% DAC
- 180 housing units, over 90% affordable
- 165 affordable units set at 30-60% AMI
- Density: 91 units/acre
- 90 supportive housing units; 60 senior units
- New transit plaza adjacent to housing site
- Bike boulevards to connect to Silver Line,
local school, and other destinations
- Implements Mobility Plan 2035
AHD: $13,500,000 STI: $5,000,000 TRA: $1,000,000 Program: $500,000 Total Award amount: $20,000,000
Keeler Court/Southcrest AHSC
ICP Project – City of San Diego
Project Details
- 86-90% DAC
- 70 affordable housing units for 30-60% AMI
- 10 efficiency units
- 20 one-bedroom
- 18 two-bedroom
- 22 three-bedroom
- 100% Affordable
- Transportation Service: Bus, walkway,
bikeways
- Construction of new 6 mile bike facility
- Circulate San Diego—active transportation
and transit access programming AHD: $7,188,481 STI: $2,503,642 PGM: $242,150 Total Award amount: $9,934,273
Long-Term Vision
- Changing landscape for
Affordable Housing
- Invest in under resourced
communities
- Think outside of silos
- Possibilities
- New patterns of development
- New partnerships
- New opportunity for low-
income Californians